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Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3188, 8 May 1879, Page 1

WELLINGTON.

The .Chronicle"foreshadow* the Govern-mentpoHcyfor.next-*ession-to-be, £rst, a reform in the Legislature,, without whicH it says, no great lAeral measure has any chance of being carried,' but which is sure to be effected if the assault is judicious add determined. It pronounces , dißsplutipn to be the w«tch^ord of* the ParliaineritßTj c»?np»jgn of 1879, and sayg that any attempt, to stare it off must be fonad^otiljSf^eott^. Then there will be re^istrationyand representation on the basis'of population, with a'self-acting principle for tte-foture, the model of which is to r Be /SnijS^pt'Mr Whitaker's bin of last session. Ther simplification of ;,|h^^eiectpral r ,biU;^f.Jatt; v ße.Bsi L Qn: l by.,cpnfinibg the qaalification to residential and be Jth^consblida^ipn'yf the statutes'; * the %n----tihuation of financial reform by making/ the w««»lthy landholders and absentees "pjfyl affair proportion towards the public revenue, and an increase in the ikrrd'"tax on ißrgeiestates; rands flenßrally-speaking, an enlargement of the liberalpolicy. *. The" following ' comparative statement of the Customs' rerenue has been received at the principal ports of■ New Zealand for April, 1878 and 1879:—WelKngt&n;1^7% £16,43^ Sslld; 1878, £13;66f521?5d; Wanganui, £24817s )Id ; £19ii 13s lid ; Napier, £2298 2s4d-; £3476 7s 8d ; Xfel--Bbn, £2739 3* 2d; £3233 19s 6d; Timuru, £2496 ]9s lid; £1644&1s 7d; Oamaru, £1758-68 r4di; Cißs ; sKunedin, £35,560 16s 0d;-£28,673 6s 7d; Auckland, £16,250 £15,949 12* lid ; Christchuroh, £18,542 9s sd;. £18,-201 12s 8d; Inveroargill, £4490 8s lid; £3995 9s 4d. -rv^i m titvmkrttii:' . -

The foundation 1 stone of St. Peter's new ChureMhjraaJaid to-day after being twice

postponed. - . A meeting of the creditors of Messrs N. and A. 'Bjylhewai held this afUrnoon; the liabilities "arelieVclowu at £11,142, and asset?' estimated" to be worth only '£4000: '•*}- t*/ -wli r The following; are probable^can&dates for ..the" Mayoralty:—George Hunter, ]$.Tj.yß,., for whom a large requisition is beitig{ signed, Mr W*Lerio,;JDf THVer, W. W. Johnston.M.H.B., and CtfnriciUors 'Thomson and Fisher.,, "■' H-. I?. Seals,- who' a few days ago attempted to cut his throat, was progressing favourably until' yesterday, when lie beoame so, violent that-nobody)in: the house icouldj gol near, him Iwith safety. This morning he got worse, and being very riolent the aid of the, police, was juvpked. He attacked the constable, and several men had to be called before he could be secured. r *> He, was. subsequently taken before -the U.M-, who/ on the testimony of Drs Kemp and "Collins, remanded' him to the Lunatic Asylum! '_ ' '' /> ' -Mushrooms"and ripe stra#b*rries are now been gathered at Maste^rtdn. the* last few daye orer £150 has <been guaranteed by the residents of Foxton' towards" Establishing, a medical man jn, the * town in^ the room of the present one. Captain Kreeft cslled a meeting of his creditors. - The liabilities are set down al ~£4,67Bpdeficieneyat £1,785; unpaid :bills amount to £4,005, the principal creditors are the banks',- £1,015 is secured. The estate, it is calculated, will pay 5s in the £ to unsecured creditors.