WELLINGTON.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3235, 2 July 1879, Page 2

WELLINGTON.

This day. The Chronicle last evening contradicts a rumour which has been circulated to the effect that tho split; in the Cabinet was a preconceived idea on the parfc of Messrs Stout and Ballance, and also the statcmen|(,that Ballance had insulted Mr Fox, the Secretary to the Cabinet. The iron workers before taking any decided action :will wait to see how the employers proposals will affect them when put into practice.

The Patea has just Lft with 75 Cog. stabulary for Patea. liobert Shearer was brought up for brutally assaulting his paramour, Rebecca Stewart. The woman was frightfully knocked about and the injuries so bud that she was unable to appear. Shearer was remanded for a week. Te WMti's Occupation Gone. A good deal of excitement was folt in town this morning by a report that was current that shooting had commenced at | Hawera. The roport originated amongst the town Maories, the Government having no information, and aa urgent i message sent to Hawera brought the fol- ! lowing reply :—" Hawera, 10,45. —No truth whatever in report that fighting had commenced. The ploughing has not commenced cither. To Whiti says that tho ploughmen having been imprisonedj his prophecy is ended. This is taken to mean that the matter passes to other hands now, which it is supposed to be meant Titokowaru's. It is understood the Government hare finally decided not to appoint another Auckland man to any vacancy in the Cabinet. It is reported the Attorney-General's office has been offered to Moorhouse.