WELLINGTON NEWS.

Waikato Argus, Volume VII, Issue 521, 2 December 1899, Page 2

WELLINGTON NEWS.

(by telegraph—press association). Wellington, Laso Night. At the Divorce Courc to-day, Sir R. Stout granted a decree nisi in the following cases. Peach v. Peach, wife's petition for desertion ; Cox v. Cox, husband's petition for drunkenness and desertion ; McDonald v. McDonald, wife petition for adultery ; Hector v, Hector, wife's petition for adultery. The Government Office and Customs Houses throughout tho colony will be closed on election day from midday. Tho Christmas and New Year holiday to be observed in the public offices throughout the colony will bo the 23rd, 25th and 26th December, and Ist aud 2nd January. R.M.S. Alameda with the British mails of 18th November left Frisco on th 29th November due date. A little girl named Daisy Morgan, daaghter of Mr John Morgan, of fe Government Railway Department, was drowned at Plimmerton to-day. Mr C. Hudson, Assistant Manager of Railways, leaves to-night on an extended visit to the Australian colonies. He will enquire into the traffic arrangements in each colony and also make himself acquainted with the working of the Abt System in Tasmania. At the present time there are over 50 of the crew of the warship Mildura prostrated by influenza and the vessel's movements are in consequence uncertain. She will probably sail about the 7th instant for Auckland. Several members of the gunboat Lizard are also down with the prevailing epidemic. The Chairman of the Benevolent Trustees reports that the new system of buying rations and supplies wholesale and distributing them through the Trustees' own store, will be the means of saving £BOO this year to the ratepayers and the contributors of the Institution. This, with a saving in salaries of £IOO, will make a total saving of £9OO. Returns of expenditure under the old system and the new have been compiled, and in this connection the Chairman remarked : " It will be seen that gross waste and negligence in the management must have taken place, wlien we fiad the large sums paid for the Ohiro Home supplies, also the loose manner in which the rations were given away during 1896-97."