WELLINGTON.
Last night.
Mr Izard, candidate for the Wellington - country districts, received a vote of confidence at Oharui Valley last night. Mr Jackson met the electors at the Hutt, and a vote of thanks was passed. Morton Quin, formerly secretary of the Ancient *Order of Foresters, was committed for trial this morning for embezzling £9 ss, the monies of the Order. A man named Josiah McClure was sentenced to three months' imprisonment for indecent exposure. The installation of Julius Eoxward as B.W.D.Gr.M. takes place to-morrow. The prospecting party at the Wairarapa, lake have sent to town a ton of quartz, which will be sent to the Thames to be crushed. It is expected that the stone will yeild a fair percentage. At a meeting of the City Council last night it was stated that the Insurance Companies declined to contribute anything towards defraying the cost of a steam fire engine for Wellington. , The ship Hyderabad. was sold by auction to-day as she now lies stranded on the Hbrowhenua beach, and realised £50. Mr Holmwood, brother to the captain, was the purcbaier.
Mr James O'Shea reports:—Flour, Adelaide, £13 10s to £14; Canterbury, £10 10s to £11; Oamaru, £11 to £1110s ; sharps, £5 10s ; Bran, lOd; oats, 2» 5&,t0 2s 9d; potatoes, £1 Is to £1 2s; maize, 4s 9d; haras and bacon, 8d to 9d. Arrived: Arawata from Melbourne fia the South, Wanaka from Auckland via the East Coast, and Huia from Kaikoura and Lyttelton. Sailed: Arawata for Nelson, Wakatipu and Wanaka for the South. Cleared out: PleOine ship for Newcastle, and Clio schooner for Waitapu,. A supplementary gazette to-night contains the necessary regulations and pro* clamations under the Maori' Bepresenta" tion Act for the election of Maori members. The following Eeturning Officers are appointed :—Northern District, H. T. Kemp; Western District, L. M. Grace; Eastern District, P. E. Hamlin; Southern District, A. Mack ay. The Northern District's nomination is to take place at Bussell on Ist September, and poll on Bth September; nomination Western District at Cambridge on Ist September, poll on Bth September; Eastern District nomination at Napier Ist September, poll Bth | September; Southern District, nomination at KBiapoi on the Ist, poll on the Bth September.
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Thames Star, Issue 3829, 23 August 1879, Page 2
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