WELLINGTON, Last Night.

Waikato Times, Volume XX, Issue 1699, 26 May 1883, Page 2

WELLINGTON, Last Night.

The notification of a vacancy for the JJi uce seat is gazetted. A notice appeals in to-night's Gazette that HU Excellency the Governor has stinrnonoil the Hon. James Crowe Richmowl, of Nelson, and John Wallis B.irmoe.it, Es<j , of Nelson, to the Legislative of New Zealand. A considerable number of members of the • ouneil and House and the leading meic.intile men responded to the Mayor's imitation, and met to-day to consider the action of the Canterbury Railway League in seeking to divert the money voted for the extension northwards of the Middle Island Trunk Railway to a line to the West Coast. The Mayor quoted at length from the proceedings of the league, and Mr Travers and Sir Win. Fitzhornert addressed the meeting at some length. The latter insisted that any diversion of tho money allocated for the main trunk line would be a scandalous breach of public faith, It was on the strength of a trunk line from Invercargill to the Bay of Isl uids that the Public WorUa Scheme and its debt of twenty-two millions had beenaccepted by the people of the colony, and no deviation from this should be pei mittpcl. On the motion of his Worship the Mayor, seconded by the hon. John Martin, the following resolution was unanimously agreed to: — "That any diversion of the funds allocated to tho construction of the Middle Island Main Trunk Line would bo improper and at variance with the general scheme of public works." On the motion of Mr John Duthie, seconded by Mr N. Reed, it was resolved to send copies of the resolution to each member of the Legislature and Government." A young man named Tames Hagan, who was out shooting at the Upper Hutt on Tuesday, in company with another youth, is missing. He separated from his friend in search of pigeons, and has not since been seen. Search parties are still out. The youth who went with him into the buuh declined to accompany either or the parties, aud comment has been excited in the township by his action. Hagan, who is about 16 yeais of nge, is a good woodsman, and hardly likely to starve to death in the bush, almost eveiy foot of which he is well acquainted with. The sentence of death passed on Phoebe Veitch for child murder in Wanganui has been commuted to penal servitude to life. The Hauroto with the Suez mail has arrived. DUNKDIN, Last Night. At a meeting of McLandress Hepburn's creditors, a deed of arrangement was unanimously agreed to. The trustees reported £6303 of a deficiency, which is attributed to heavy losses in connection with the Kakorai woollen factory. At the football dinner it was stated that if the Northern players declined to co-operate, Otago and Canterbury would themselves send a team to Sydney next season.