WELLINGTON.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3476, 14 February 1880, Page 2

WELLINGTON.

Last night. The Union Steam Shipping Company carry members of the New Zealand Kifle Association from the various ports to Nelson and back at single fares. The cup given by the company has arrived here, and is now being engraved. The medals are being struck off and will be ready for presentation at the meeting at Nelson, and the ribbon which -is the reverse to that attached to the New Zealand war medal has been made by Mr Greenshields of Auckland The secretary reports that entries are coming in freely. Leonard Eose Jagger, Alfred James Renner, and Charles Durbridge have been dismissed from the Telegraph Department.

James Lowrie, harbor-master and pilot at Kaipara, has been dismissed from the public service. The following is the total imports from the colony for the quarter ending 31st December : —£1,550,676, and corresponding quarter in 1878 was £2,252,373, and the "total exports were £1,393,771, corresponding quarter of .1878, £1,550,638. The list of Judges of the Assessment Court under the existing Act, 1876, appears in the gazette. The following appointments have been made :—H. Hall, Deputy [Registrar of the Court of Appeal, Wellington; W. E. Gudgeon to beB.M., Poverty Bay, with jurisdiction up to £20; Hudson Williamson to be Deputy Sheriff' for the District of Auckland ; and William Scanlan to be Assistant Draughtsman in the Surrey Department. The list of officiating Ministers for 1880 is also published. This day. The shareholders of the Times have confirmed the resolution of the directors in selling the paper to Chantrey Harris, and amalgamation of the two papers takes place early next week. \

Young Scott, the pedestarian, will essay to walk 7 miles in the hour, tonight.