WELLINGTON.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3219, 13 June 1879, Page 2

WELLINGTON.

This day. The Hutt Vacancy.

Reported Government Action.

Fitzherbert'i resignation of the Speakership will not be gazetted for several days, as a commission has to be appointed, to whom he will hare to hand his dual resignation as Speaker and member of House of Representatives.

The Government are using every endeavour to induce Dr Buller to stand in their interest for tho Hutt, as Jackson, while approving of the Government principles/is opposed to the Government personally. ,

case qgainst Mrs Phillips, charged with arson, is adjourned till to-morrow.' ' The Christchurch City Council have instructed their surveyor to proceed with testing operations for obtaining a water •supply from the Waimakiriri. If the tests are satisfactory, the scheme will be carried out in its entirety.

It is stated that a capitalist,has lately arrired in 1 Wellington, from San Francisco, who is taking the preliminary steps for starting a tobacco and cigar manufactory on a large scale. The' New Zealander states it has reliable information that the Government intend proceeding with the West Coast railway without delay. The City Exhibition 'Committee have resolved to send twenty photographic views of Wellington, its environs and public buildings, to the Sydney Exhibition. Over one hundred and fifty recently recruited Armed Constabulary are now at the Mount Cook Barracks ready to be sent to the West Coast. Sixty more recruits are coming in the Ladybird from Napier. « The City Council again refused to take joint action with the Chamber of Commerce respecting the formation of a Harbor Board.

The Corporation will petition the Governor, under 250 sec. of " The Municipal Corporations Act," for two thousand acres of land in the Forty-mile Bush; also, for a piece of the reclaimed land. The Case of Arson at the Butt. 1 , In the E.M. Court, in the case of Mrs Phillips, for arson and perjury some startling evidence was taken this morning. Lizzie Jane Mellum stated that on the night of the 10th," Eush was with her in the back parlor of the Albion Hotel, Hutt; while in the evidence previously taken it appeared he was in Wellington. Hush has been courting her; b.e wanted her first to marry him secretly; then asked her to go to, Wellington and get married. At that time he told her Mrs Phillips was the woman at the station. In the train he said, "Lizzie, I tell you this with the view of you being my wife." She said, Oh, why did you tell me this! He replied, " She is our sister, and had we not every right to proteot her all we could." She asked how Mrs Phillips returned! Ho replied by the back lane ;' he aisosaid his father had. assisted Phillips several times with money, but could d<> so no , morey, T-he ( girl fainted i directly, srtie, left the witness-box. The c»seis;continuing. i

„/ : ■ Later. ■ ■ .. I Alphonsus llusli has been committed for trial on a charge of perjury in connection with the case of Mrs Phillips, who is charged with arson. A re-hearing of the charge of arson against Mrs Phillips ii now going on. !