LATEST WELLINGTON NEWS. [BY TELEGRAPH.-PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2106, 7 January 1886, Page 2

LATEST WELLINGTON NEWS. [BY TELEGRAPH.-PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

Pkockf.i>in«> in the Maiitau.t Copyiight c.«-se against the Oj>era Company, l).i\e been stayed, the defendants ['•tying' the fue>, and the costs. The injunction will accordingly be removed. The crops aie suffering fiom want of r.iin. Piisoner Howard, charged with attempting to defraud the Government Life Insurance Association vas sent to C'liriHtcliurch to-day, by s..s. Kotoiuu, in charge of : countable O'norke. i Mr G. Beetham, M.H.R., addressed a large meeting of his constituents sit Masterton last night. He wa» well leccivcd and accorded a vote of thank>. | The Mayor has called a meeting of i citizens to decide what steps should be taken to entertain Admiral Tryon during his stay here. At the R.M. Court this nfternnou, in tin* c.use McMinn v E. Shaw, Mr Jellicoe, the prosecuting counsel, said he had received two telegrams from prosecutor to the effect th.i f j hid absence had been occasioned by serious illness, but lie hoped to be present at the adjourned hearing. At the Supreme Court, Ah (Jet for fi.uidently concealing goods, he being a bankrupt, was sentenced to 12 mouths. Bridget Wickhani, on a charge of receiving stolen propei ty w.ls remanded until tomorrow. Masterton is surrounded by files thix afternoon ; one of them near the 1 ail way .station thieatened to Kpiead towards the t'»\vn, and the fire brigade went up to put it out. A large bush fire is burning between the upper [Jain and Waingapua, .uid should a N.W. wind spring up theie is gee.it risk of all houses in the Mania and Kuiupuin end of the town bcini; burnt. Men are at woik trying to check it. A light north wind prevails, and today h.is bjen the hottest known in Mitiitciton. At 10 a. in. the thermometer was 130 degiees in the .sun, and during the afternoon when tlx.sky was smoky, it was 132 and Bl> in shade.