TELEGRAMS.

Thames Star, Volume IX, Issue 3072, 19 December 1878, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

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WELLINGTON. This day. Ministers promised a deputation'yesterday that the Government would grant the usual subsidy of pound for pound to the River Conservators at the Hutt. The Elver Conservators Aci is to be brought into operation at once. The Wellington Building Society has been more successful this year then any previous year since being started, i The Hermione's passengers have now taken up their quarters at the station on the Island, and the ship will be admitted to pratique in about ten days. An anchor and chain hats Jieen laid from the City of Auckland at Otaki to prevent her being set higher on the beach. The ship Rakaia will dear today for London with a cargo of Colonial produce valued at one hundred thousand pounds. Of wool alone she has 4618 bales, 288 casks tallow, 34 drums iron sand, 42 boxes hematite paint, besides a large quantity of miscellaneous produce. The total receipts which passed through the Corporation books last year, exclusive of loans, was £69,762, while the expenditure has been £91,561. The wharfinger reports that 1657 vessels entered the port of Wellington during the last 12 months, with an aggregate tonage of 354,385 tons. Mr G. M. Heed went overland to Napier on his way to England. The New Zealander, in discussing the Chinese question, says it is in the direction of an alteration of treaties we shall have to look for support in keeping out the Mongolian flood. Steps are being taken for the release of Hill, who was recently sent to gaol for contempt in disobeying an injunction of the Supreme Court. . ' Wednesday.

Mayor Dransfield sent a telegram today addressed to the Queen's private secretary in England from the citizens of Wellington to sympathise with the Queen on the death of Princess Alice. The re-elected Mayor (Mr Dransfield) was duly installed to-day. It is stated the whole staff of masters in the Wellington College, the principal included, are atout to receive notice that tbeir services are no longer required. It is intended .to endeavor to popularise the institution, the present attendance being considered meagre and diminishing gradually. ,v::;:: , The attempt on the part of the drapers employees to obtain a half holiday on Saturday has failed, the drapers alleging that their receipts were, more on thet evening than any other three days in the week. The employees then offered a compromise, and to take; Wednesday afternoon,,but that also failed, in consequence of one draper declining to accede to the proposal. The acceptances for the Wellington Cup close on Friday next. The Government received an application from the Dunedin City Council today to appoint a leper hospital, as there were now two cases of persons afflicted with leprosy within the city. The reply of the Government has hot yet been ascertained.