WELLINGTON.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXI, Issue 4053, 4 June 1879, Page 2

WELLINGTON.

;. June 3. During the quarterly licensing meeting to-day it transpired that during the last twelve months 256 persons} had been arrested, charged with drunkenness, before ten o'clock at night,>nd 157 after that hour. • Thirty-one hotels in the city hold night licenses. It is understood] thatythe Government are^quietly taking the necessary steps to avert and if n9C69Bary confront any difficulty which may arise with the West Ooast natives. An inlistment of armed Constabulary) is going on, and detach mentß will be sent forward to the various • stations, where they maybe most needed. \ Arms andjammunition are also being sent up, and the jredoubts put in as good a state of repair as possible, and the Post says that arrangements are being made forjbringingi'a thousaud friendly natives to Taranaki, to act as a check upon'Te Whiti, and jhia 'fanatical folio wera. " Plans-and'specitications forja newrailway passenger station, to be erected at , the rear>f the Government Buildings are nearly ready. By a Blip on 2the Featberston line, yesterday, 3^trucks were thrown off the line'to-day. No damage. W. P. Ford, employed by Huxley, a tailor, confessedj^toj stealing'six^pounds from him, and was sentenced " to sir. months. Of the vesseb entered at tho Port of Wellington for May :— Sailing 31, steamers, 114 ; foreign vessels, 2 : abrogate tounage, 26,163. Suez mail by the Arawata consisted of 436 letters ; 66 books ; 25 newspapers. ma Bnndisi, 431 letters; 12 books; 168 newspapers via Southampton. The Licensed Victuallers Association are taking steps to wind up their affairs. At the annual licensing meeting to-day every application for an extension of license from 10 tili;i2 o'clock was granted. The Bench thought it grossly unfair to make one man shut up at 10, and see his customers go to a 12 o'clock house bard by. The Eashy v Anderson, and Anderson v Easby, assault cases haye been arranged. On the case being re-opened before °the R.M. Court this morning, it was stated that the lapse of time since the assault was committed had enabled an amicable arrangement to be effected between the parties. Anderson had withdrawn the charge against Easby. on the understanding that, when the case against Anderson comes on in the Supreme Court, the prosecitor would not preas the case. It was deemed unnecessary to*, bind over witnesses. All the parties then loft the Court. It ia thought probable that nothing further will be heard of the case. °