WELLINGTON.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3328, 22 August 1879, Page 2

WELLINGTON.

This day.

The football team selected to play at Christchurch leaves by the Waaaka this afternoon.

An endearor is to be made to get the Liberal Eeform Association and the Working men VRights League to amalgamate, the objects of both being the same. The New Zealand Steam Shipping Company's fleet is advertised for sale next month.

The stranded ship Hyderabad and all attached is to be sold to-day. Five salvage corps have applied to the Corporation to grant them the same powers as fire inspectors, so as to enable them to remove goods at fires without making themselves liable for , damage. The representatives of the Insurance Company refuse to contribute anything towards the cost of a steam fire engine on either land or water. r

It was stated at the meeting of the Council tbat there were three hundred men out of employment, and the Government were urged to immediately commence that section of the West Coast railway adjoining the city, otherwise the Corporation would have to support the unemployed. Mr Moore, prospector, wrote to the Council stating that he believed in the existence of a payable goldfield in the vicinity of Wellington. He was prepared to prospect, but wanted money to do so, and said the Government promised they would give him pound for pound upon what might be raised by subscription. The matter, is to be further considered.

' i Cases of larceny have been unusually frequent of late. Two men were brought up this morning charged with it. Edward Lynass, an old offenderrgbt six months, and Thomas Green, on two charges, was remanded, there being several others against him. „ ■ , . Two stowaways by the Wakatipu, Wm. Power and, John Lee, were fined five pounds, in addition to the passage money, or one month's hard labor. .-■.. John Joseph, who was git»n a cheque belonging to a Friendly Society to Bank, and who converted the money to his own use; obtained a postponement. , v Morton Quin, formerly the secretary of the Foresters, was charged, afc the suit of the Ancient Order of Foresters with larceny. After a long hearing Quin was committed to take his trial |t the next criminal sitting of Supreme Court. Bail was allowed. . -■■

A deputation of the City Council waited on Mr Macandrew to-day with reference to obtaining work' on the railway for the unemployed. Mr Macandrew said tenders for the first section would be advertised for immediately. The Mayor pointed out that it would take the contractor severs! weeks to get his plant on the ground. He therefore suggested that the work should be started on the line two or three miles from Pipitea, where men might be put at day labour. Mr Blackett said the Government had not finally decided on the line. Ultimately, however, Mr Macandrew promised the Mayor that within a week or ten days two hundred or three hundred men would be set to work.

The report that Mr Thompson has resigned the Surveyor Generalship of the Colony is incorrect.