WELLINGTON.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3330, 25 August 1879, Page 2

WELLINGTON.

;■■;,;■.';; "f . : Saturday night. ( i The interesting Masonic ceremony of I installing Bro. C. J. Toxward as District j Grand Master of Wellington under the English Constitution in succession to Sir Donald McLean took place to-day. Eej presentatives of lodges of other constitu> tions and from different parts of the [sipblony attended;! and" about' 16Q brethren were present. The ceremony was impres" sively performed by Bro. Geo. Graham, District Grand Master rof' Auckland. Mr C. O'Neill has issued his address as a candidate in the Liberal interest for the .Wellington country district.; , , The Manawatu nomination is fixed for the 30th August and the poll fa.* the 6th' September. ,; . .., • r ... ./',, •;.' John Brown, sailmaker of the ship Halcione, was charged with stabbing George Landill on the high seas. The case was partly heard and remanded. Hutchinson and Levin, candidates for the city, each addressed a meeting last night* and received. votes of■ confidence, Sunday night. Geo. Hunter met his constituents last evening, .their being a large attendance. He expressed himself in favor of Liberalism, but opposed to the present Ministry. A motion that this meeting' has confidence in the candidate was put and 34 hands held up for it. An amendment was proposed, but not put to the meeting. Arrived: . 'Penguin, from ' South; Waimei.vaftertan .uneventful passage of 100 days. She has a large cargo, and twenty passangers;; Eangatira, from Manukau. Sailed: Murray, for Nelson and West Coast.