WELLINGTON.

Thames Star, Volume IX, Issue 3077, 27 December 1878, Page 2

WELLINGTON.

Thin day.

George Brown, a well known settler at the Upper Hutt, had his house destroyed by fire yesterday. Brown and his son were severely burnt in escaping out of the house. Very little furniture was saved. The loss is estimated at £750, and it not insured. Mackie was brought up this morning for embezzlement from the Bank of New Zealand, and remanded for a week. Bail was not forthcoming, and prisoner returned to gaol. s Wednesday. Captain John Crawford Wilson (late commanding armour-plated turret ship Thunderer) has been appointed to succeed Commodore Hoskins on the Australian station., He hoisted his broad pennant aboard the Wolverine to-day at Sydney. Sixteen thousand persons travelled on the tramway last week. The Government will dispose of the reclaimed land on the following terms :— 15 per cent, cash deposit, balance by bills at 6, 9, and 12 months, without any I interest. The Hermione's immigrants will be released on Friday next. , Thursday. H.M.S. Sappho has arrived after a rapid passage under sail from Sydney. She has only come in to coal, and will proceed to England immediately after taking in a supply. Anolher attempt will be made tonight at half past eleven, when there will be a very high tide, to tow off the ship Hyderabad from Otaki beach. All the cargo is now out. Between three and four thousand assembled at the Foresters' games, at the cricket ground to-day. The Governor was present. The affair was very successful. The walking and running events were very good. The excursion steamers were running all day, and the trains were crowded, ihe weather was beautifully fine. The Bank of New Zealand lose only

about three hundred pounds by Mackie's (their clerk's) defalcations, one thousand pounds being secured by the Fidelity and Guarantee Society.