WELLINGTON.
This day. About two months ago a person named Fisher bought an hotel, but from certain hints received lately the police made inquiries, and after telegraphing to Adelaide a constable was sent down who at once identified the so-called Fisher as Frederick Gleich, a fraudulent bankrupt, who had been engaged as a publican in Adelaide. Gleich was brought up this morning, but remanded till Monday, y ; ; r '••■ ' T
The foundation stone of St. Peter's Church; Willis street, will be laid today. -■■ .-, :-,..,..,., ,; .. /( ;,-. f : . . ;; .y;
At a meeting of the College Governors the secretary brought lirideiv'their notice E. J. Duncan's bankruptcy, and suggested that he should get permission to prove for the debt owing to Governors by Mr Duncan, as the money represented deposits paid to Mr Duncan on account of the lease of a college reserve sold by him. After some comment as to unusual course of Mr Duncan paying money into his own account which did riotihelbng'to him] the secretary was! empowered 1 to take legal advice, to see if the whole sum could not be; recovered the truateep, as heing out of the category of ordinary-debts, arid to act as he deemed best., \' V -A, ,'■ f v-, . The .Governors .of .'lthe ,Wellington College find the affairs of tliei college in a serioua financial position',, "and have, endeavoureds to'obtain 'aasistaflce 'from 1 the Government, but; after careful considera Jtion the Gpvefnmerit could only undertake to pliftcSLfife thousand on the estimates next iyear,, to, recoup the Governo'mfor the£sooo expended in college buildings. The Government intimated they^ approved of the selling of all rural reserves which afforded no aid;tofche college-revenue", f \\ The Be v.Mr Patterson said.the Government ,: were mainly , responsible for the misfortunes of the college, in not making suitables proviiionl. when 'abolishing • the; provinces ; the ;;f college'having -been largely dependant upon the proviiicej; of Wellington fbras'siitanee in'the past. r
His Excellency -the Governor, and suit© arrivediat Timaru yesterday, and were received enthusiastically; The Governor said he had been greatly impressed, not only with the magnificent acenery of New' Zealand, but also by the boundless resources of the colony; and rapid advances made in manufacturing and industrial pursuits. An address was presented by the Mayor, and a ball was given in honour of the visit at night, there Jbeing 150 persons present. Mr Conyers takes charge of the special traia which brings the Governor on to Christchurch to-day. Friday. The Eenfc Terrace drain, to which so much sickness has been attributed, is to be covered in and concreted.
A movement is on foot to purchase a billiard table by subscription, for the use of the patients at the lunatic asylum. ' Mr Baird, the City Engineer, has the permission of the Council to employ the able-bodied applicants for charitable relief upon stone-breaking.
i At the E.M. Court to-day, Thos. iEowett, a man who once occupied a highly respectable position in Otago was sent to Igaol for 24 hours' for drunkenness. He had been previously convicted of larceny, j Eowett ii an habitual drunkard, and Bays Ms brother is Chairman of the Milton .County Council. \ The Government offer a reward of £500 ifor conviction of any person guilty of fireraising in New Zealand. Large poitera containing this announcement are stuck ;«p in various parts of the city. ; H. P. Jlealls, who attempted suicide, |will bo proceeded against by the police, as soon as he is sufficiently recovered to appear before the E.M. : A leading firm of city solicitors has |:received, it* is stated, by the incoming mail, the sum of £35,000 for investment liin Wellington on loan. j: " The thirteenth annual report of the Colonial Museum and Laboratory, shows 15,000 names entered on the visitors' ibcok during the year. Since the openingof the Museum on Sundays, for two hours 1 ;in the afternoon, from 300 to 800 persons" i have availed themselves of the privilege/ J9.980 specimens were added to the collections during the year, 7,579 being mineral ■ and .fossils specimens 'obtained! iduring the geological surrey of the colonyr 231 analyses wereparformfeda tiring the year, making the total number since the .establishment of the laboratory 2166. ; The sale of 42 sections of the reclaimed land will take place on the 17th of next month.: , '■:■■: ■'■:-;;-:.■■ .; ■
; The Wellington Philosophical Society,; now numbers 262 and hasriP ,balance of £103 to its credit.
i The City Council has appointed a committee to inquire into the question of complying with the request of the Sydney Exhibition Committee, that the City Council should make some provision for having photographs of the chief public buildings of Wellington and views of.the city,* was discussed by the City Council last night. . > The Post says :—" It is not surprising that the authorities at home experience difficulty in getting first class immigrants for the colony, as we learn on the best authority that employers of labor i« England are in the habit of telling their servants that if they come to. New Zealand they will not be free agents, but that they will have to take any work the Government choose to give them for a considerable time."
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Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3184, 3 May 1879, Page 2
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