WELLINGTON, Saturday.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1882, 29 July 1884, Page 2

WELLINGTON, Saturday.

At a meeting oi the Wellington Racing Club the receipts for the year were shown as £2169, ami there was a casli credit of £140. The stewards recommend that a two days' meeting be held oil the 28th and 29th November, and that £690 in stakes be given. Sunday. The Paikakariki returns in connection with the Foxton election have been found, and sent on to the chief Upturning Officer at Foxton, wlide a scrutiny will be made. Including this last return, Mr Wihou has a majoiity of one, but the doclatation will not be made until after the scrutiny has taken place. A tclogiam tcceivcd states that Taiaroa is elected for the Sou them Maori and Wi Pere for the Eastern Maori district. Monday. The latest information from I'anhaka states thataboub lOOOmtivesu hoatteude:! the u-sual meeting on the 17th inst., still remain there. A& yet no speeches have been made. A boy named John Kermode, four years old, was killed by a log rolling on him on the Tuakoii range on Sitiuday. The ommi&siouer appointed to enquite into the charges laid against Dr Lev ings, of the Wellingtjn Asylum, have submitted their report, in which they find the charges not sustained. Mis Collins, residing near the Camp at Featherston, while in a state of drunkenness, set lire to her house. She was severely burnt, and died yesterday. The house was saved.