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

Waikato Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2241, 18 November 1886, Page 2

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

Wellington, Wednesday. The Premier and the Colom.il Secretary are the only Minister-sin Wellington at the present tune, the Minister of Public Work-* having gone to Chri-,tchurch yesterday. A full Cabinet meeting has, however, been omened for December. The object of Mr Richardson's visit to the South is to keep an appointment with the directors and solicitors for the Midl.md Railway Company, to confer with them as to the completion of the terms of the contract between the company and the Government. Mr Fisher, M.H.R., who withdrew from the mayoralty contest recently, has again leaped into the breach, and has been nominated at the last moment. In his address to the burgesses, he say-?: "I have only consented to be nominated for the purpose of endeavouring to induce Mr Brown to condescend to address a meeting of ratepayers. I think it is a little too much to ask us to return, unopposed, a gentleman of whose views upon large municipal questions we know nothing. When Mr Brown addressee u-5, if he does condescend to address us, I will withdraw my nomination and my deposit." A somewhat mysterious affiiir has just come to light. A man named H. Andrews, an assistant in a drapery establishment in town, died in the hospital to-day, in terrible agony, from wounds received about a wpek ago. By some means his bed took fire, and he was severely burnt about the stomach and chpst, but, notwithstanding, he went about his duties until attention was called to his state by the stench arising from his burns festering 1 . A medical man was called and ordered his immediate removal to the hospital, where he died. The s ngular thing is that no one in the house in which he lodged knew any thing «ib >ut the affair, although about the time a >inell • if burning was noticed. Fredrick Austin and Jamps Johnston have been committed for trial for breaking into the Wellington warehouse of Mucky, Logan, Stetrn, and Co., Auckland. The wilt for the election of a member for the House of Representatives for the Western Maori electoral district, vice Te Puke Te Ao, deceased, has been issued. Nominations aie to be made at Wanganui on Depember 2nd, and the poll will take place on December 23id. The writ is made returnable by the 21th January, Mr G. T, Wilkinson is appointed returning officer. Tiie polling places extend from Wellington along the West Coast of the North Island to Coromandel. The steamer Kaikoura, which sails for London to-morr>w, takes 10,000 carcases of mutton from Wellington. It is estimate 1 that it will cost £{000 to raise the steamer Ma-whera, wrecked at Grey mouth. No tender has been received for raising the wretched sterner T'ii.

Tenders wanted fur clearing on Hasenberg estate, Pukete. Mr J. I°. Thom»<m invites tenders for the erection of a dwelling house at Cambridge. Mrl). Richardson, architect, Cambridge, invites tenders for building a house at Lichfield. Mr G. W. Russell, Cambridge, advertises that he has commenced business as a land and finance agent. Mr Windsor, of the firm of Kempt and Windsor, surgeon dentist*, is again in Hamilton, and may be consultH daily from il till ."> at his rooms, The Waikato Times buildings, up to the 24th intst,