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Wairarapa Daily Times, 13 June 1879, Page 2

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irai Aram- ?- WELLINGTON, ' - f" TLUIS&BY. Pitzliofbori, it is understood, will inform tho Ktttt constituents immoiliaioly aiiei l oop ting tho offer, of Speakership in tho Uppjr House, Hcury Jackson, lata of tho Survey Office, will be brought forward as & candidate for tho Hutfc. It is expected that no opposition will 1)6 offered, G'Uorko being Speaker of-the Lower House, but if Hamlin be brought forforward us a candidate, the Chairman of Committees -will bo Rtrenuously opposed. 1 Goorge Thomas reports— Flour, Adelaide, £lB 10s; Colonial, £9 10s snd £10; braa, . lOd and la, no Bale; wheat, 4s; ma&B, " 4s Gd ; hams, 9Jd ; bacon, BJd, in good demand ; cheese, 8d ; pollard, £C 15a ar.d £fl; potatoes, ss; butter, lid and Is: -rye-grass, Ga. Mrs Phillips, of Kaiwurra, was re-arrastvA for charge o! arson. Her uroLber, Alphoad Hush, was arrested charged "with perjury, having connection with the ease.

It is understood that Eitzherbert finally agreed to accept Speakership of the Upper House. Mrs Phillips, who was re-arrested for arson, was allowed bail in two sureties of ££3o each. "Her brother Ruah, lor perjury, "was allowed bail, himself in £IOO, and two snr«> ties of £3O each. Fire escapes for "Wellington Fire have been shipped. The watershed of the V/ainuiomat* is to be reserved from sale. The Inquiry held at Ktukoura bs to tliS logs of the Shepherdess, which was eoLdy attributable to the defectiveness of tha Goverament moorings. These hai,e been comUa&aed. NEW PLYMOUTH,

Thursday. Out of the applicants lor the ofilcss ol Harbor Board Engineer, four were fchossn by the Committee Selection. £aorpp of Wellington, Uses of Taranaki, Latbam aaJ Aj*toa of Chriatchuieh. The Board to-day will aocide 'who shall ba chosen. P.eea, of TaranakS, has bceh appointed sk Engineer io the Harbor Board. CHRISTCHURCH. ! Thursday. Alari;o meeting of the unemployed held "at AsliburEbn to-day. Result was that the Government ho urged to proceed with the Mount Someis railway, A large meeting of the unemployed was held at Ashhurton this afternoon. There

■were good many present iududmgthellayor. It 'was resolved thai the Mayor should urge npon the Government to communco Mccai Somers railway, and endeavor to get local bodies to do something to provide work. M' GISBORTCE. Thursday. Tiio European a in this district atsU tli&£ fighting strength of Ngfitiporcu, which hsa boon put down at a thousand, is aliogetbar wrong, and the Government are that tribes 1 assistance, ifaories hare, "while perfectly loyal to the Quoou, ahov no desire to fight against their countrymen on ih» West Coast. Another tiling Ngasiijosfoa dreaded was a. raid upon their Svitissaefits iyj To Kooti, in the event oi their going to Wiimate, ■wlio ia well-known Hero. To Kooti gained a largo aunther of ocsuverts to bis ration laai IS n.natlw m district, Thcra ia no oecseion ssJaamj * but the Government aosd iioi 01>*$■ three hundred native* mskos oa ma*t v*gftiit term*, inch ut high iffly, s«SK Is&C -