LATEST WELLINGTON NEWS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1953, 13 January 1885, Page 2

LATEST WELLINGTON NEWS.

[IJY TELCflllAl'H. — I'KLsS AV>O( lATION.] \Vhu\<.to\, Fnday. At the Supreme Couit to clay, the charges against W. W. Taylor weie called on first. The indictment elnrged him with having coim-ited to his own use 778 fully paid up bank of New Zealand shares, valued at £18,000, of which he was trustee. Only six witnesses were examined to-day, when the couit adjourned until to-morrow. At the* Divorce Court, the case of Kay v. Kay of Masterton, was heard. This was an application on the part of Fanny Kay for a divorce from her husband, William Kiy, on the grounds of cruelty, adultery, and bigamy. His Honour lcserved his decision. The report <>t the Royal Commission on the unemployed question in Chtistchurcli has been received by the Government. A large mass of evidence has been taken, but the report itself is said to be in foimal, and will be sent back to the commissioners to be sot right. It is undeistoood that a serious difficulty has ai lsen in connection with a lajge order for locomoth es sent home by the late Government. The order was for twenty locomotives, and the total cost somewhere about £30,000, and is believed that now they are constructed a deviation in the plans has been dis covered, and the engines are not suitable for the work for v\ hiuh they were required. However, the tullest enquiry is being made on the subject, and it is more than likely that the Hon. the Minister for Public Works v\ ill lefusc to take them over. Five of those locomotives are expected to arrive in the colony shortly.