LATEST WELLINGTON NEWS. [BY TELEGRAPH.—OWNCORRESPONDENT.] Wellington, Friday.

Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2081, 7 November 1885, Page 2

LATEST WELLINGTON NEWS. [BY TELEGRAPH.—OWNCORRESPONDENT.] Wellington, Friday.

Tiikuk seenii to be a little diffeience of opinion amom; Ministeis with leff.ird to the piopos.il to r.UMithe Noitb Island Trunk j Kulw.iy loan and apply it to other purposes. Mr T.ile, I know-, feels Tcry strongly about it, and thinks it would be i\ teiy unmoral proceeding, and that it is no justihiiitKin to «ay that Major Atkinson's hi any other (Jot eminent did a similar thing. Of course, the matter has not yet been before the Cabinet, but no doubt it will be biought up directly. All Minister will assemble next week. It is impossible to say what action the North Island niembeis of thn Ministry will tike, but I am inclined to think that some of them, Mi Tole for instance, w ill see the necessity of considering their position in the event of theii remaining in the C ibiuet. At a meeting of the Exhibition executive to-day, ti number of piotcsts were received, most of which were directed against the gold medal award-. The executive have decided to take no action, and uphold the award-. Thecotvette Enterpiise, which left foi New Yoik last evening, bumght up in Woosei's JJ.iy for the night, but gut away again to day. A daityin.in named Hallow, residing at I'ppci Iv.iiuar.iii>, has sustained aseiioiis scalp wound and injniies to his luck tinongh the horse which he was diivingin his milk cut backing ovet an embankment C>o feet deep. deputations of poisons interested in a minim; company at Teiawhiti w uted on the Ministei of Mint's to-day, urging the coiistiuction of a budle tiack to the spot, and guaranteeing one fourth of tho cost. The deputation said the following amounts had alieidy been expended in prospecting by the companies n.-vm^d :—Albion, tr'.Mi: (i'olden Crown, KV>OO; Hitt'iiix, £J"lil ; Caledonian, £700; (Joldeu Spin, t'.">oo; Wealth nf Nation-", t'l000; Success, 177.S ; Total, fel'.U7(i. Mr Jj.itn.ich promised if the local bodies m company piomised onetliiid, the Cut eminent would be responsible for the icmainder.