WELLINGTON.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3412, 28 November 1879, Page 2

WELLINGTON.

This day.

It is stated Ibal lawyers letters have been sent to the directors of the Tramway Company oil behalf of some of the shareholders, threatening legal proceedings in connection with the floating of the company.

A return of monies paid to Ministers for house allowance, travelling or other expenses, hi excess of salary' since 12lh July. 1878, to 31st October, 1879, shows Shcehan's carriHge hire to be £491. Cab hire for all others within a pound. Sheelian's total expenses, made up of travelling and carriage hire, arc £1814-, none of the expenses of the other Ministers reaching £200, except Macandrew's, which is £2A5. In SUeehan's

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£'101 cab hire, is included the hire of carriages couveying Secretaries and Natives in attendunco upon the Native Minister. The total exposes amount to £2234, of which £1394 is travelling, nnd £345 for hous-i allowance. The ship Opawn, 96 dnys f ut, has arrived at Nelson with 300 immigrants nil well. '} hey are intended lor distribution between Murlborough, Kelson, and West Coast. The Public Works Statement will not probably be brought down before next Friday. ■ , ' The engineers and guards employed on the tramway are notified that after Monday next their wages will be reduced, and they will have to work extra hours without payment: Seymour George has resigned the posilion of whip to the Macandrew party. ■ *' The Tariff Committee recommend that grindery (with certain exceptions)tbe ad* milled duly free, and rccpafcnend the following''increases:—Candles, not tallow -J-d per pound, plain: • jiashes 2s per pair, ornamental ditto 4s, plain dpors 2a, fancy ditto 4s. The duty on Australian wive to bo restored to 4s per gallon, port dues and railway charges on coal to be reduced to the lowest possible point in order to assist the coal mining ,iuduslry. No duly on grceu froifc to be imposed. •