WELLINGTON.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3089, 11 January 1879, Page 2

WELLINGTON.

Friday. : Pinfire has been scratched for the Wellington Cup. The journeymen painters are moving for an increase of the day's pay from 9s to 10s. • A petition has been forwarded to the Premier praying the Government to push on the enlargement of the railway station, including the reclamation at Fipitea. By a city bylaw cabs are prohibited From carrying corpses. Through the energetic efforts of the Carterton people the threatened damage by the bush fire was averted. The safety of much property was largely due to a lull in the wind at a critical time. James Pudney, while driving a horse with a dray load of timber, the load slipped, and the horse get'ing frightened knocked Pudney down and trampled on him, breaking his jaw. At a meeting of the New Zealand Steam Shipping Company to-day, it was unanimously resolved to wind up the company voluntarily. This day. The ship Taranaki left Glasgow for Port Chalmers early in November with 293 immigrants.

The Boyne left Plymouth on the 18th November with 350 immigrants. The Agent-General reports a further fall in the iron market. Mr D. M. Luckie the present editor of the Post has accepted the appointment of Commissioner of Annuities at a salary of eight hundred pounds per annum. : A Gazette extraordinary published this afternoon notifies that Parliament has been further prorogued till Friday 14th March next.