WELLINGTON.
This day.
The mail steamer Zealandia, with the London mails of the 7th November, sailed from San Francisco for Auckland on the 25th ultimo.
Judges Johnston and Williams leave for Canterbury on Monday next. There were 80 nominated immigrants here for the month.
It is expected that after the return of Mr Macandrew, Mr Fisher, and Mr Sheehan, the Attorney-General will proceed South and address his constituents.
At the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency's first sale of .wool the bidding was languid. Cross-bred greasy wool of fair quality fetched from , eightpence to eightpence halfpenny. A preliminary inquiry has been held into the wreck of the South Minster. The Captain says he is not certain as to the amount of insurance on the vessel, but he values her at £12,000. It is not quite clear from the evidence what was tbe immediate cause of the wreck (every care seeming to have been taken),. unless through the effect of a current setting the ship in shore during the foggy weather which prevailed. A movement, arising out of the Sydney Chinese difficulty, has been set on foot, and a petition is now in course of signature here, praying the Government to have an Act passed imposing a tax upon nil Chinese arriving in New Zealand as sailors or laborers, and making captains of vessels responsible for the introduction of Chinese. Thursday. The mail steamship City of Sydney, from Auckland ou the 12th ultimo, with the November colonial mails, arrived at San Francisco on the 3rd instant, two days in advance of her due date.
The prayer of the petitioners against the use of s^> am on the tramway has not been acceded to. The Tramway Company will be required to adhere in future strictly to the regulations, especially as regards speed. A Commission has been appointed to inquire into the condition of the settlement at Jackson's Bay, consisting of Mr Bunny, M.H.R., Dr. Giles, and Mr Wliitefoot, R.M., and the Commission is to visit the settlement in the early part of Jauuary.
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Thames Star, Volume IX, Issue 3061, 6 December 1878, Page 2
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341WELLINGTON. Thames Star, Volume IX, Issue 3061, 6 December 1878, Page 2
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