WELLINGTON.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3153, 27 March 1879, Page 2

WELLINGTON.

This day,

At a meeting of the Chamber of Commerce attention was called to the question of telegraphic management. It was said the department was taxed beyond its powers, and ordinary telegraphic messages took from twice to three times as long in transmission and delivery as they used to do formerly, so that merchants were driven practically to the urgent system. If the present system of the allocation of the wires were continued, the speakers thought improved facilities ought to be given.

Ten of the Armed Constabulary force intended for Patea, and twenty for Opunake will be sent off to-morrow in the steamer Patea, if the Stella does not arrive in time.

The building committee of St. Peter's Church have decided to send Home for a peal of eight bells, which will cost £300. Wednesday. It is stited Oat Mr Ihiai Tonui, a Greymouth native of high rank, will probably be the only candidate for the seat vacated by Taiaroa. The Chronicle says two persons holding high rank in the Ncsv Zealand Militia, and being J'b.P., have been fomenting discontent among the natives in the Waikato, and inciting them xo opposition to the Government, and a forcible remonstrance will probably be addressed lo ihem uy the Government.

Governor Sir Hercules Robinson not having aimed up to eight o'clock tonight, :s not expected before to- norrow. It is stated the Government liave agreed, subject to ratification by Parliament, to cirry out the agreement made by the original lessees of tH Murimotu blocks. The title will have to be reheard by the Native Lands Court.

The proposed sale of sixteen thousand acres of the Wai irate Plains has been cabled to Australia, to be advertised in the principal journals there; '^, ' Dr J. G. Thornley, who came'out in charge of immigrants by the ship Hudson, has been appointed medical superintendent of the lunatic asylum in Auckland. A movement is on foot to form a football club to play unier the Victorian rubs.

The Post attaches but little importance to the recent outrage at Waimate, and apprehends but little danger, but adds :-— "If there is any outbreak tl.-) truest mercy will be in immediate rod severe repression."

Mr Stanbury, the representative of a San Francisco shipowner, has come here to claim the barque Courier, which was sold by Captain Slonwood to the promoters of the late New Guinea expedition, and who have her now employed trading. He says S ion wood had no right vO sell her. B ,nks, the cook of the Loch Fergus, died this afternoon from the blow of a handspike received from an apprentice on board last Sunday/ after which he has never been perfectly conscious. McEveriss, a master at Mount Cook> school, was charged with violent and unmanly conduct to the Misses McGowan, female teachers at that school. The. local committee, after enquiry, considered the charges substantiated, and recommend the immediate removal of McEveriss, I whose admissions showed that his violence and infirmity of temper quite unfitted ; him to deal with subordinates.