WELLINGTON. Thursday.

Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1824, 15 March 1884, Page 2

WELLINGTON. Thursday.

WELLINGTON, Thursday. A consignment of salmon trout ova arrived by the lonic to-day. The salmon eggs number about 24,000, and are from Sir James Maitland's fish hatchery, near Stirling. When the chamber was opened it was found that a considerable number of the ova was dead, but the remainder was in good condition. Mr Purvis, chief engineer of the lonic, biought out ten robins for the Acclimatisation Society of Wellington. There were 24 shipped from London, but the birds fought so much on the voyage that only ten arrived here alive. Iv the Gazette to-night the island of Java and the islands of the Eastern I Archipelaso are declared as infected places under the Public Health Act. Fiiday. Mr Daniel C. Maunsell, for a long tim^ past Private Secretary to various Preinioifl and Ministers, yesterday filed his sche-J dule, and was to-day arrested for the em-i bezzlement of £267 of Government I money. It is understood it is sin imprest I made to him from time to time to pay I travelling expenses on Ministerial tours, and which he has not properly accounted I for. Mr T. 0. Kelsey, of Christchurch, has had an interview with Ministers as to certain schemes for the construction of the Itdftncl K»Bt and West Coa.*

"Hallway "by a" compiriy. The Oovcrii' nient promised to consider any specific proposals marie in writing. Great preparations are being made for the ceremony of laying the foundation stove of St. Patrick's College on Sunday next. Bishops Mourn and Luck have already arrived to assUt Bishop Redwood, and a large number of Roman Catholic clergymen from different parts of the oolouy will be pieseut. Capt. Olher, of the Koiauui, from Westport, repot ts that when off Farewell Spit thiee of the ciew, Fied Ahlzicn (appienti'ie), James Moir Wtight (A.8., and a bi other of the second oth'eei), and a Swedish sailor were washed o\ei boat d belou* assistance leached them. Ahl/itn and Wnght dis appeared. Tlie Swede managed to float till rescued. Jlc buid both men ehildied him. Mr Clifloid, who aimed fiom tlie South to takoi liaigc ol the o\,i Umiiiht out by tin loi< c lia-. fvimiin'd tinboxes and Imu->m.n!v tin- w'nok 1 ul Uic 2400 snlmon o.a ha»e >:on bad The oonbiiuimcnl cili'ln'; sr.i horn, o\a, howe\er,was found t<> ))i 1.1 i ><-< lk'iit older Two 01 tliuclmxc, will I), kit with the Wellington Acdnnati-ati m .Siiieij A young man named hlduai Kel)om, a l'eceiit annul by the Biiti^b Qm en, was be\ t-rely injmed by a full of eaith on the jManawatu iailv\uy woiks. f'e is now in the hospital in a piecauous condition. The Piemicr to-day, m response to repiessentations fiom Mebsis Levin and Johnston, M.H.R., promised to place a sum on the Estimates for the erection of a a new cubtom- house heie. A Manii named Tiapota was to day, by a bench of justices, sentenced to two month's impiisoiin.ent for a hi utal assault on his wife. Tlie police wished the ease made an in lictable one, but the bench ac cepted a plea of guilty of common as sau It,