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

Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2029, 9 July 1885, Page 2

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

TilKWellington-M.uiaw.itu Railway Company h,i\e leceived application* for more th.m l.") 00 Mm res, required to be nubsci ibed for in the colony, in order to rise the requisite additional capital of £20,000, required for the completion of the line. A meeting of the barmaids employed in Wellington in to be held on Friday to prote.it aftiunut the proposed repressive measures. A meeting of the county council delegates held hire to-d.iy, the following resolution-* were carried : —"That the projKxals now before the Hou«e as to local government arc not calculated to dcv elope peimanent sj stem of I'fTectinsj local government re the clony."' "That thin confeience is of opinion that local government should rtiH.tm id stitu quo dining the piesent ye.v, and that fund » should he pio\ided to meet the dem nuis itf counties .iiul ro.id bu.nc's iinflfi tlie 11 >.h)< and Mii(l<,'"s Act, aid that in the inrantime ,i local coniuii«" on sh'iul 1 be issued to inqiine into the question with a \iew to ficditite lejj s ation ' Tlie c mfeience was adioumed until to-morrow. At the inqiti rtt on til * b nly of the infant found m a garden on Sunday, a \erdict of found dea t was returned. At the Supreme f'ouit, l)ennis Kelly, on a chaige of lecning stolen pioperty, was flis'jhaijre<l. Th rt >ii!iiiuhih case for assaulting tlie gaoler c\ine before the court again this afternoon, but the authorities decided not to proceed any further with it. Thisc included the criminal business.