LATEST WELLINGTON NEWS. [BY TELEGRAPH.-PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Wellington, Friday.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1997, 25 April 1885, Page 2

LATEST WELLINGTON NEWS. [BY TELEGRAPH.-PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Wellington, Friday.

Thk Volunteers aie to lie called out on Monday atternoon, when they will engage in nham h^hts and othei held movements. The Defence MitiHtei this afternoon had a long uiterviow with Majors Eecles and Butts, Col. Reader, and Captains Humphreys and Hmne on defence matteis. The reotilt of tho discussion has not been made known. The Militia will probably be called out in a week. The Marine Underwiiters' Association hay c leceiv ed a cable message from London, wtatiug in elfect that diplomatic negotiations between KiiMia and Knglaud had been broken otf, and that it was therefore necessaiv to chaige wariisks. The gnus for the defence of Wellington h.ii bom will be in position ne\t week. The Patent Slip Company recommend a dividend of hve per cent, and the Public Hall Company per cent.

AIVshNTKE L\NI)O\V.\KKS OF TIIK UnitH) Statks — It appeals that no leis than '21 nullon acies of laud in the United States are now owned by Euio pean notables, most of them natives of Great Bntain, and the Committee of I'ublic Lamls, in tho House of Representatives at Washington, having aecertainen that foreign capitalists have invested many millions in American railroad and land bonds, covering, " perhaps," ) 00 million act es, which may become the propel ty of the bondholders under fore closure, in the course of the next few yeais, has recommended the passage of a Bill disqualifying any alien or foieigner from owning land in thr United States. Should it pass, it would be equivalent to the confiscation of a portion of the value of all ruch land, winch could not be thrown upon the market without occasioning a serious fall in price. Systematic Ixhanticide in* Great Britain. — Many yearsjago it was found that the establishment of Initial clubs in the mauufactiuing diotiicts of Gieal Britain was attended by a rapid rise in the late of mortality among children, and steps were taken to abate the evil. Of lato there has been a terrible increase in the number of in tan tile deaths iv the gieat hives of industry, where they have lisen from 15 to 186 in the thousand in some places. This has led to inqunies, aud it has been found that this increase has coincided with the growth of thr practice of insuring children's lives, which can be done in some societies for £1 per annum, whicii insures £40 or £50 on the death of the child to the person taking out the policy ; aud this proves a sufficient temptation to the commission of infanticide by means which aic moie cruel than poison or the knife. A PosTHtTMOiTa Novel of Brßv^ny's — Theie will be found among Colonel Buinaby's papers the completed manuscript of a novel. He began it about live yeafs ago, laid it on one side when about half thiough, took it up again in 1883, and finished it off It is what is called a novel of society, and would create some sensation if it were published. It also deals with political personages iv a man ncr that left little to be desued in the way of means of identification ( ru i humour is rather given to horse play, <i:l> ' the novelist treated his politioa' i < i i saries to chance com elation. Oik facn c depicts the breaking-out of a tire in Dov\ mug-street during a Cabinet meeting. The affrighted Ministers rush on to the balcony, w here they betray a ludicrous timidity. Overtures were made by two publishers to secure the novel, but Buiuahy was in no huuy to publish, and locked the manuscript up in his desk,