WELLINGTON.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3368, 8 October 1879, Page 2

WELLINGTON.

last night.

XTew Ministry.

It is reported to-night on excellent authority, that Mr Hall has formed hit Ministry as follows :—-Hall, Premier and Colonial Secretary ; Eolleston, Minister of Public Works, Immigration and Education; Oliver, Minister of Lands and Mines; Bryce, Minister for Native Affairs; Atkinson, Colonial Treasurer, and Minister for Customs; Whitaktr, Attorney-General, with a seat in the Upper House; Tomoana, Native Member of the Cabinet. One scat yet to be filled. '"' "*'""*' '' " ' - ? . Mr Wkitakor called to tie Upper Souse.

His Excellency the Governor has at the request of the Hon. J. Hall, called Mr F. Whitaker, senr., to the Legislative Council to hold the position of AttorneyGeneral in the new Ministry.

At a meeting of the Wellington Licensed Victuallers" Association a question as to the advisability of winding it up was diicussed, after which ifc was resolred to call a general meeting to consider the question, and also a circular "iceired from the Auckland Association *\ . , ••>» tlio foundation of a petition to wmen v«. _ „ . „. be presented to >!»»«* this session. At the Supreme Cou^ Frank Amor and William Mi^wm for larceny were each sentenced to 1* "»<»•*» imprisonment with hard labor. Walter Thomson, on two charges of embezzlement was sentenced to six months imprisonment with hard labor on each ft<WOJ, sentences to be concurrent. Three Greek fishermen, who went in * boat to Island Bay on Saturday, are missing, a»d it is feared that during the heavy gale which sprang up-that evening that the boat was capsized and the occupants drowned. A boat's rudder was picked up on the Beach, and corresponds with the painting of the boat m which the party are known to hart gone out in. The police tre instituting 101 I* gent search.

At the Supreme Court tin's or en ing Cornelius Fisher was charged with shooting a cove, but was acquitted. Ihe Thorndon Baths' Company, having to remove their baths owing to an additional reclamation for railway purposes, they have agreed to petition the Governnieut for a grant of a side of the reclamation, and £1000 compensation.