LATEST WELLINGTON NEWS. [PER TELEGRAPH.]

Waikato Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1488, 17 January 1882, Page 2

LATEST WELLINGTON NEWS. [PER TELEGRAPH.]

The following paragraphs were wired last night by our correspondent and by the Association : — The Governor has returned from a tour through the Wairarapa district. It is rumored that a discrepancy of £150 has been discovered in the accounts of the Wellington City Tramway Company, and that a strict investigation is being made into the matter. A despatch has been received from the Agent-General in respect to the establishment of direct steam service, and that he is negotiating with an eminent shipping firm on the subject, and that plans for vessels fitted for the service have been prepared. A conference will be held between those interested in the service, when the plan and the whole proposals on the subject will be discussed, and he hopes to forward particulars by next mail, A letter from M. Blame to the Foreign office, conveying an acknowledgment of telegrams of condolence on the death of President Garfield, has been received by His Excellency the Governor, through the Colonial office. M. Blame, after saying that he had had unfeigned gratification in acknowledging through the United States Legation in London the " many singularly affecting telegrams " that had reached his department ! say 8, "the oneness of the residents of every part of the wide British dominions with the. family of, the dead Chief Magistrate, 1 and with the American people in < > their afflicting trial, has touched our' hearts very " * r ' . * Some months ago y the seal' of the' colony was found to be worn out jukT application was made, to a , the. . Home/ Government ; for a- now one. ' The 'new, seal' reached here in due course; the old one' beingfasreqiiiredj sent tome. , ! ILojf-., ever,;ap"plication^a& madefy th<Clsw" Zealand Government {through His rExcellericy) to the,Secreiar^fo^St^te r^asking Mi&pthe old'seal mighrbe* teitimed jo f thY slcplonyT ast a^ n^emien^itl^ng-.tEe^fira^ Iswlusediri;the|c6lony^nae% Stive iGovernmen^i; and; ittwaslsent^bjrt' and-th^ealarrivedb^l^t^ilrhavinK w<|e^fC#