WELLINGTON.

Thames Star, Volume IX, Issue 3078, 28 December 1878, Page 2

WELLINGTON.

This day. A letter by the last mail from the Emigration Department states that arrange* merits are to be made to send the follow* ing numbers to the Colony .:—693 for Wellington, Nelson and Marlborough, 400 being for Wellington; 328 for Auckland ; 277 for Hawke's Bay; 1660 for Otago, and 1668 for Canterbury. Mr Lloyd the ex-Treasurer, and H. E. Butler, the ex-Attorney-General of New South, Wales, are passengers to NewZealand by the Rotorua, paying a visit to the principal cities and doing the Rotorua excursion trip. William McCullough, Mayor of Thames, is appointed a Justice of the , Peace. , Friday. It is estimated that six thousand per* sons travelled on the tramway yesterday. Five engines and ten cars were constantly at work during the day. The immigrants from the Hermione having been released from quarantine were brought to town this afternoon. It is stated that the Government are instituting enquiries into certain suspicious circumstances which have recently been discovered regarding the Government buildings at Blenheim, which were burnt down about a year and a-half ago. The GoVernor presented the prizes at Wellington College this afternoon. There was a large attendance. Mackie, charged with embezzlement at the Bank of N.Z., has not been able to obtain bail. The largest amount of money ever taken in any New Zealand theatre on one occasion is said to have been taken last night by George Darrell, on the production of Henry Fifth, with Rignold and a large company from Australia. The proceeds were £230. .'... Complaints are made that no preparations are being made for the Annual Regatta.

Charles O'Neill, C.E., has been appointed Valuer for the Thorndon and Lambton Wards, under the Land Tax Act.