WELLINGTON.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3548, 10 May 1880, Page 2

WELLINGTON.

; This day, ' Mr Mansford, R.M., who has been seriously indisposed for some time past, is about to leave Wellington. Arrangements have been concluded for an exchange with Shaw, the present District Judge and EM. at New Plymouth, and Shaw is expected to bo in Wellington in a fortnight's time. The exchange between Mansford and Shaw' is for three or. four months, at the end of which time it is probable other arrangements will be mad«. J. T. Taylor, a well known commission agent, and an old settler, died on Saturday, at the age of 63. A strong N.W. gale is blowing, but no damage has been done beyond one or two yachts being driven ashore. : News has been received of James ;Manassey's death at Adelaide. Saturday.

A deputation from Wanganui waited on the Colonial Secretary it reference io an application made by certain districts in the South Island to the effect that the whole of the Itforth Island might be pro. claimed an infected cattle district, and the removal of cattle from the North to the South Island be prohibited on account of the pleuro pneumonia outbreak in Auckland. The deputation represented the hardship and unfairness of the course which the Government had been urged to take in its effect upon Wanganui, which was full three hundred miles from the locality where the disease had appeared, and, moreover, had a large trade in stock with the west coast of the South. Island, which would be destroyed by the prohibition asked for. The Colonial Secretary said the Government had no power to take such an extreme course as that against which the deputation protested, and certainly bad no idea of adopting any measures of so oppressive a nature.