LATEST WELLINGTON NEWS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2067, 6 October 1885, Page 2

LATEST WELLINGTON NEWS.

(BY ThM-V.RVPH.— OWV COnHINrOSPKNT.] Wi 1 1 i\(.rov, Monday. Mr Rkin, of the L.md «uul Lalmui Company, applied to the I !o\ eminent for pei-mi-Mion to address the JMiendly Societies Demonstration, to be held at tlie H\lubi tion Huildmgs during the pre-ont ni<>ntb It n liuriourud that eithei Majoi Gudgeon, A.C., or Capt Hume, Inspector of Prison*, will be appointed ComrnisMoiier of Constabulary, mc'J Col. Readei, but the rumour requnes confirmation. Tne Evening Press was published tonight in an cnl.it ged foini, haviisg added a column to each page and lengthened llie columns. The lion (Jpo. McLein, who hns been \ntcrvifwing the Go\ eminent re the S.m Frmti>eo mail spruce on belnlf of the UnionS S. C'linp'iny, left for the South today. The an uiiroment^ aie not yet com plete, and nothing i* allowed to be m ide public. At the Supreme Court criminal sitting. Justice Richmond took occasion, this morning, to congratulate the countiy th.it the lavs of e\ idence had not been amended as had been proposed during the late session, ™as to exclude evidence of .idiniv sion of guilt by the accused peivms while in custody. The hinipci-.' stiikc is beginning to collapse. Six of the Union men ha\e accepted work on the ship Zealandia- at the curient rate of wages, and se\eial others have intimated their intention to turn to on the same termn. Mr Kelly, the vice president of the New Zealand Lumpers' Union, who hes been in Wellington for the last foitnifcht, returned to LyUelton to-day. Messrs A. B. Hi own and S. Hi own announce themselves candidates for the mayoralty. The Union Company's new ste-\mer Mararoa left the Clyde for Port Chahm-rr-, via Hobait, on Friday List.