WELLINGTON.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3100, 24 January 1879, Page 2

WELLINGTON.

■? This day. >: The Benevolent Institutions are discussing the question of charitable aid, which lately has been taken out of the hands of the police. It was resolved that the Mayor be requested to undertake the distribution of the money for charitable aid, and if he refused a letter should be sent to the Government showing the evil results from taking the matter out of the hands of the police. The H.ons. Colonel Whilmore and Mr Fisher visited the new hospital yesterday, inspected all the completed-portions, and expressed great satisfaction with all the arrangements. ' £59 has been collected as admission fees on the wharf in aid of the regatta. The Britannia Lodge of Oddfellows, M.U., paid away last quarter £216 as sick funds and doctors' fees. Mauriceville settlers are demanding permission from the Waste Lands Board to take up additional land on deferred payments. The Board said they had no power to grant such a request.

The Wellington Trust, Loan and Investment Society paid twelve and a half per cent dividend for the past year.

The D'Urville's Island copper company have insured the cargo of copper they are shipping to New South Wales to be smelted, at a'premium of a thousand pounds. It is expected the mine will be properly opened out iv the middle of February, and arrangemeuts have been

made for sending regular shipments to, New South Waleg thence forward.

It is understood that in consequence of Lord Normanby's Commission as Gover- ■ nor of Victoria only having Been sent from England on the 2nd of January, instead of via 'Frisco, it will not arrive < here until the middle of February, and that therefore His Excellency will not go right on to Melbourne in the Arawata as originally intended, but will probably leave her at Christchurch and remain in the South Island travelling overland to the Bluff, ao as to embark on board the Eingaroomathere on the 20th February. Mr LePatourel, private secretary, will go on to Melbourne in the Arawata so as to arrive a few days before Lord and Lady Normanby. Andrews, in charge of the Wellington Waterworks, was riding, near the large receiving reservoir this morning, when he was thrown from his horse and killed instantaneously. Mr Conyers is still in a semi-conscious state, but Doctors McCaffer and Skae say that a decided improvement has set in since yesterday.