WELLINGTON.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3175, 23 April 1879, Page 2

WELLINGTON.

Thii day. 1 ?i.ders for the Grey mouth and Hokit'ili ■■■ "ailwaj beginning at the Greymouth en ; have been approved and will shortly be accepted.

There is a balance of the fifteen thousand of the vote taken last Session still in hand, and it is intended to spend that at the Hdkitika end, and thereby commence the railway between Hokitika and Greymouth at each end.

; The Minister of Public Works is said to have assured a gentleman that the tenders for all kinds of public works now being received are from 25 to 40 per cent, higher for the work than: they were last year.

The Times urges the advisability of contracting a new loan for public works and has little doubt that j bnia -will be proposed next session

The; Sydney International Exhibition Committee resolved to ask the Sydirey Committee to lend over photographs Of the inferior of the building; ; * ] The New Zealander, referring to the retirement of Sir Julius Vogel from the Agent-Generalship, says:—" It wilLmoat probably be found expedient to- convene an earlier meeting of the. Assembly than is row proposed, for the position becomes fraught with grave responsibility. It is admitted that it is necessary to > either raise at once a new loan in the London market, or to obtain temporary advances on debentures in anticipation' "of a: loan." It says the land fund has fallen off, and will not yield the meanj to extend the iiailway system, i which cannot [be fddne until money becomes more plentiful in the Colony. , The New Zealander sug- f gests 'that the services of Sir Julius Vogel should be obtained in floating the new loan. ■'■- ■■■- ■ '•' ' '• ' ■.■;■■!• -V?":- _

'"Tnesday. It is understood that Sir Julius Vogel retires from 1 the Agent-Generalship. He pur "oseu joining acommeicial ii m. Mr G. M . Eetd, who recently aaiiv^dLas,an Irish immigration agenf, .will administer the affairs, of the. London office ; .until |a permanent appointment is made by,the New Zealand Gover iment. j >

The Chronicle ,to-right.issues the following extra:—-I lest telegrams state that Te Whiti has ordeied all the Europeans from the settlement/and has adopted a modi offensive attitude; " - •) '

On Saturday last there were nineteen thousand lons railway-iroa belonging to '-ihe" ■Government on board the various vessels discharging at thei wbavf. ' The bulchei's of Wellington have notified th-ii' intention to rai«e tbeprice pf meat to large customer?, such as hptelf, lodging-house ;keepeit9, afid restaurants. The prica will not be increased to the general public. t ] „, ... A prospoc.ting essociation is being organised at Mas'er(on in consequence 6. the quantity of rirncral specimens |i ekedup in the ranges in the vicinity. ! The -Government hope the Waitara and Hawera railway will, be opened, from Inglewoodto Stiatiofd in three months.* !\ '-' TJhei.'JSTew Zealand '"T|in6g''.afiguis > ' good results 'from ' tlie Goverikindnt having secured the services of Mr James Mackay in promoting the,settlement of the Waimate difficulty. / , . -, 7 ,- r;o : The remit of the inquest on the body of Mr Duncan's son. was "accidental death." It appears the boy bad been .leaning on the muzzle of his gun with bis arm. The gun was at half-cock when it went off, but he could not tell how the accident happened. . " ■;■■ ;'-; ;.' -;"■"■!.•" '.".""■■■:' It is stated that the action of the Clerk of the Court in withdrawing a bailiff after he was put in charge without the sanction of the person who caused the bailiff to be: S laced in possession, was done in accorance witli the 135 th sect'bn of the Debtors and Creditors Act; by which all executions for debt become absolutely void as soon as a debtor's[bankruptcy has been published. It: appears the Clerk received a letter from a firm of solicitors threatening an action for damages if the bailiff was not removed. '

It is understood the Government have received a telegram stating that Te'W^hiti did not order the settlers and constabulary away from Opunpte, a^d that he is as earnest ks ever in depreoating violence of any kind. That the real f»ot cf the case is that a boastful, swaggering, Maori, named Maruma, was in Opuoake, and asked what those Europeans were doing there, and why did they not clear out, bat that in doing so he represented no one but himself.

The poll for borrowing £100,003 for the formation of new streets, &c.,' resulted as follows: 951 for; 517 against.