WELLINGTON.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3323, 16 August 1879, Page 2

WELLINGTON.

Last night. Mr W. H. Levin, one of the candidates for the City, addressed a large meeting of electors at Adelaide Boad to-night, and received an unanimous rote of confidence. ■% A gazette defines IheibiAJle line of that portion of the railway from* Wellington to a junction with the, rail tray from Napier to Sentry Hill at a point neair Manawatu gorge, passing through the Hutt, Feather-

ston, and Mastierton with branches (Greytown branch). ;Lots 46 and 255 A, in the town of' Hamiltdn (Auckland), have been temporarily reserved, also lots 649 to 566 inclusive in the town of Ngaruawahia, parish of Horotui, Newcastle survey district, provincial district of Auckland, and lot No. 266 at Punui.

H. Kenrick has been appointed Judge of the Assessment Court for the Borough of Thames, and Parawai,, Coromandel, Whangapoua and Tiki Highway Districts, and Walter Gudgeon for Gisborne, Tauranganui, Ormond, Te Arai, Waikohu and Poverty Bay districts; also E. Baker for Wairoa. <

F. W. Evans is appointed a member of the Licensing Court for Papakura; G. W. Cullen is appointed Clerk of the R.M. Court at Napier; the resignation of S. Locke as District Officer of Hawkes Bay, and Commissioner under the N. Z. Native Reserves Act has been accepted ; also that of Lieutenant C. N. McMurdo of the Auckland Scottish Eifles. A money order, and a Saving Bank Office has been opened at Auckland.

W. H. Quick has withdrawn from the Hutt seat.

Sir George Grey leaves for Christohurch on the 21st inst. to address the electors. He proposes going South as far as Invercargill, making speeches at the centres of population.

Mrs Darrell and a number of the members of the late company left today for Sydney by Tararua.

A proclamation dissolving the General Assembly was issued to-day. The new writs will be sent to the [Returning Officers by telegraph.

The steamer Tararua took the remaining exhibits for the Sydney Exhibition. It is proposed to form a new volunteer corps in Wellington to be called the Fusilier Guards.

Mr Curtis, confectioner, has manufactured a quantity of sugar goods to be exhibited at the Sydney Exhibition. At a conference between the City Conn, cil and the Insurance Agents lasc week, the latter decided to double the insurance in Wellington owing, to the defective water supply. Col. Whitmore left for Napier to be present at the opening of the Ahuriri Bridge. , Additional regulations for Civil Service travelling allowance appear in Gazette, also the repealing of regulations for purchase, receipt, etc., of public property and stores, so far as they relate to the Kail, way Department, and substituting amended regulations. The Telegraph Department have been exempted from certain regulations made under " The Public Kevenues Act, 1878." J. J. McDonald of Auckland, and W. McKay of Waikato, have been appointed J's.P. T. C. Williamson of Wellington has resigned his appointment as J.P. J. E. Macdonald has been appointed R.M. at Auckland with a jurisdiction up to £50, H. D. Johnson to be a clerk and interpreter in the Native Office, and P. C. S. Buff to be assistant draughtsman in the Survey Department.