WELLINGTON.

Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4694, 23 January 1884, Page 2

WELLINGTON.

Yesterday. "Wesleyan Conference.

This afternoon the examiners of ministerial candidates were appointed for 1884. Reports of Scandinavian and Maori work were received. The Revs. E. Neilson and Heteraki Worihi addressed the Conference. The report of the Rev. E. Best on Chinese work was read and received. The Rev. J. Lewis brought up the annual pastoral address, which was adopted after some discussion. The second reading of the ministerial stations will be taken tomorrow morning.

This day

A young man named Kimperman, a recent arrival by the Lady Jocelyn, last night, while in a state of intoxication, fell through a bedroom window in the third storey of the Star Hotel on to the footpath below, a distance of fully 40 feet. He broke his left thigh, injured his left ankle, and received some severe cuts on the head. His injuries are not likely to prove fatal.

A man named Sullivan, formerly a boarding bouse keeper in Wellington, has been arrested at Foxton on a charge of forging an order on a man named Connor.

The yacht Iris which was competing in the regatta yesterday is missing. Daring the 3rd class race the master of the leading yacht Greyhound, noticed that the Iris had disappeared off Point Halswell, but concluded that owing to the heavy gale blowing, she had run into Cow Bay. Although the weather has moderated this morning, the missing boat has not turned up. She was manned by four youths named J. and C. McKeenan, Hare, and Bristow.

Later.

The crew of the Iris have arrived safely. It appears that the peak and throat halyards were carried away, and the vessel took shelter under Soames' Island. She lost both anchors, and the crew beached her, and came home in the dingy.