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

Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2168, 1 June 1886, Page 2

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

Thk Post Office authorities state tho delay of tho mail steamer 48 hours beyond time was due to her 21 hours' detention at Honolulu, and also to her meeting with exceptionally heavy weather between 'Frisco .vnd Auckland, which necessitated her being hove to for 23 hour.-.. The Sheep Inspectors rcpoit that the North Inland is entirely fiee from *cab, .md that the only infected puits of New Zealand are in tho northern provinces of the Middle Island. The Russian war-ship Vestnick will leave here for Japan at daylight toirionow, but will call at Auckland en mute. A meeting of the Otago member.-, of both branches of tho Legislatuie was held today. Twenty-three members were present, and Mr Vincent P>ke was in the chair, when the following resolutions were cariied :—Mo\cd by Mr Macandiew, "That this meeting deeply regrets the delay that has taken place in the construction of the Otago Cential Railway, and is of opinion that in the public inteieat a much larger amount than that n<iw proposed, vi/., £200,000, should be. applied to the work, at the .same tune, seeing that there may bo difficulty in the way of expending the amount, in the meantime it is resolved that a deputation be appointed to wait on the Government with a \iaw to receiving an assurance that the future construction of the line should be so regulated that the construction, at least as far as Taieri Lake, shall be entered on .and finished within 18 months of the date of negotiating the loan, the deputation to consist of Messrs Pyke, Birron, Fergus, Gore, and the mover. Mr G. F. Richardson moved, " That this meeting in of opinion that the present unfinished railways should be carried to a repioductive point prior to the commencement of any new railways at Masterton." Tho Rev. J. C. Andrew for failing to clear lea fetation of rabbits waa hnod £o and costs. The result of the crushing of 00 tons of quartz from the Golden Crown mine, has lesulted in the return of 40ozs Bdwt retorted gold.