WELLINGTON.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3206, 29 May 1879, Page 2

WELLINGTON.

This day. On the last occasion when a carriage on the Hutt railway was illuminated by gas manufactured on the train, the light was liable to be put out by sudden jerks. Since then tbe arrangement has been so perfected that a brilliant and'equable light is maintained < unaffected by oscillation or jolting. Efforts are being made to establish a Cottage Hospital and Lying-in-Eefuge for destitute woman in Te Aro. \ The Governor has forwarded to the Secretary for the Sydney Exhibition Commission copies of photographs re«| ceived from Sydney by His Excellency,! showing the weekly progress of the works at the Exhibition up to.the 19th instant. : At a meeting of the -creditors of N. J.i Isaacs, auctioneer, the total liabilities: were shown to be £26,000 ;'the principal creditors — the Colonial Bank — being secured, the claim being £13,000. It is supposed the estate will realise five shillings in the £ to the unsecured creditors.

The apparatus, for, the electric light intended for the football match was atted up last night, and will be experimented with to-night. There will be two lights, one at each end of the Grand Stand, and tbe two streams, of light being t directed towards each goal, will cross- each other and prevent any shadows. Wednesday. The charge against Mrs Sutherland for setting fire to her house at Kaipoi occupied the iE.M. Court the greater, portion of the day. A large ■amount of evidence was taken, but as it was of a!conflicting character the case was dismissed. ■ ' ■

The Post says it is generally understood the new loan about to be proposed by the Government will be for £3,000,000 unless a tery strong opinion is. expressed by the House that the sum be larger. It is thought that the recent experience of other Australian Colonies, and that of New Zealand iv regard to the last loan, tends to show that a three million loan is quite large enough to' place on the London money market, with a .fair pros* pect of being successfully floated. The rumour to which the Northern Advocate gives publicity, that "the Government, propose a ten million loan to be floated in one sum," is a mere canard. The total collected to date for the Kaitangata fund here is £1155. . i Searing in mind lnat night's tramwey , accident, it is suggested that a bye-law be passed that no person should enter or leave can except at the latter end.

The matter about natives . stopping the JSTapier-XCopua train turns out to have originated in a .squabble between a Maori chief named Hiraki Tohua and r a railway guard named Bees Watkins. Yesterday Tohua was in the train, and was smoking in a carriage that was not for one for smoking. Watkins asked him to desist several times, but he would not, arid then Watkins turned him out of the carriage"on. to the platform, and it is stated thct a good deal of violence was used. Tohua, it appears, owns the land through which the line passes at Takapau, and it is said that though there have been negotiations for its purchase by the Government, the money had not been paid. Tohua'seems therefore to hare considered that he was merely exercising his rights as an owner when yesterday afternoon he obstructed the passing of the train* by placing not only.-sleepers' across the rails, but a wire fence right across the line. He asserted, however, that his purpose was not to prevent the running, of the train, but merely to make it stop while he searched for Watkins, whom he would have tomahawked -if- he could have; caught him. These circumstances were not' known till this morning, after the train had gone, and then, a telegram; was sent up to Waipawa to stop Watkins from going any further. Tohua was' brought to town and charged with the offence of: obstructing the line., He was remanded till to-mor-row, but was allowed to go at large under; surveillance. ! ; ■