WELLINGTON GOSSIP.

Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4870, 19 August 1884, Page 2

WELLINGTON GOSSIP.

(fbom qvn own coAbbspo»dsnx.)

At tbe eleventh annual meeting of'the Few Zealand Shipping Company, held at Ghristchmch the other .day, the report, contained a statement to the effect that the Company would ba able to conduct a monthly steam service without chartering any steamers. This speaks well for a Colonial. Shippiog Company only eleven years old. The names of the, ;.tvb;;ne\r> i boats building will be the Kimutaka and Kaikoura. .'/.':::.^i-:.,^:.^;' •<■■/■■

In swearing in the members of the Lower House rather a smalllJible was used, and that one was ornimen'ted with rather a nice brass clasp. 1 Most of the members accepted it'forwhAt'it purported to be, but Mr Vincent Pyke, who i**iojt as easily convinced as most mon, preferred seeing for himself, so he leisurely opewd it, and after reading a verse or two and thoroughly con rinding himself that " the article was genuine," quietly kissed .the book and returned it.: :

The-case of iW.; Waring^ Taylor^ the insolvent iron merchant, to which I alluded id some- previous "Gossip,", is likely to form a case for the Supreme Court. ;At the public examination of, the -■? bankrupt,, hoj admitted ; that; various entries relating;to mortgages Were fictitious, and asked Mr Stewart, who represents a creditor whose claim amounts to £22;000 odd, •• not to go into details " ia the. Court. ; ■.-:■■.■. ',■.;/v;v.'.'.'' '■:■--&&«. ;'-v '.-. ■

JVTajor during theilatelelecti on eer ing cam pa ign sta ted that if «llp wed to retain office hesaw-hiiway^t^jlrmjj the: ordinary expenditure within the ordinary revenue. y;The feet that the expenditure from the Consolidated Fund for the June quarter wasupward;.of. £102,000SinfaW tha statement appear a little like* irony. If The people at" Home doo't appear So know where; to stop." lionising "vjTawhiao and his parfcyV The latest thinij 1 heard of here ia an invitation to Major Te Wheoro to :teach the^ Volunteers at p Wimbledon •hbw';.to' shboii-w'..^;-::;.;i: •■' --;-':^ .-v z-pr■';... l :;:"

< The following may hot^beumnterest?njf in such a head centre; of; mining ; as ydurtown is:— Telegrams thei Silve*^ •; ton district .report that the^ pppulatiop ■ is 300,0, and ' additions ' are J; ariiSuiit - dailyV 1 The latest find; is i&e**S!jsss6fes« :2Oi milesV north-east of Silrerttnii: SjsfejJ|]|: mine is under offer for !£9o6V>''A::S^^ir^'--: .•of,silver hajs been raised from the-iSPekp up,_ 20 miles north-east of SUvfettdiifv ;' This slug has been bought by a speoaUtbri c ThojWarden hasreceired £1006iid^ht - days, r This is a splendid fa'eldi but miners' are cUutioned not? to; %ti there Swiffidntr 7 money. There is, however; plenty-af • work; ;Late telegrams;;from-iidelaile vi stateJthat the news received from; -Silver* ton is causing much excitement ia that: city and the northern townships. Parties are leaving the uortlifbr Silvjertbpi - ' An amusing argument in faTo?3of tlie East and Jvyest Coast JRailway was used by a would be member fob •vGheviofc 4a Canterbury. >He stated Mit pn^h*: Weit Coa^t bachelors were-very^plentiful,while > at the other end of the line the odds were greatJym favor oiihe kdws^aad that witt a holiday and the railway oonitrueted, the bachelorsstou}d comelin tqCant«barT and woo thY ladies: Poor benighted West ;Coasters.r ; - ; .' : -% ;•-: ■i'-:.;---f!>.-v^^,..v.--...;:^e.^.' ■■-■• : -