LATEST WELLINGTON NEWS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 2343, 16 July 1887, Page 2

LATEST WELLINGTON NEWS.

[from our special correspondent. ] Wellington, Friday. A special Gazette issued this afternoon contains a proclamation dissolving Parliament. , Replies have been received from all the registration officers but one, acknowledging receipt of maps. Thirty days will.be allowed from the date of dissolution for the. preparation of rolls, and a week will bo given for inspection by the public. Writs for the new election will then be issued. ! The burglary epidemic still goes merrily along. After Lord “Tyler’s” adventures came the artistic effect of a man who scaled the verandah-post of a fashionable residence in 'Hill-street in the “West end,” and “ walked through ” the upper part of the house while.the family were at dinner on., the ground floor.- Last - night the premises of. Mrs Hotfer, a fancy dealer in Cuba-street, \vere t exploited, and property to the amount 'of about £SO was taken. Tins afternoon the residence of Captain.Rose, agent of ,New Zealand ShippingUompany, was entered. On the servant girl opportunely appearing on the scene the burglar hastily decamped. Godber’s, the well-known baker, was also entered last night, but the burglar was frustrated in his efforts by Mr Godber, who hurried him off without ceremony. There is a very comic story in circulation in town. Four officers in the Public Works Department, in consequence of the retrenchment proposals, received, their conge. Three received their compensation without demur, the fourth, who appears not to have bean a favourite with the Ministerial head, was told that his compensation could not be granted until his claim had been submitted to Parliament. Tliejill-favoured one know that this meant shelving him, so yesterday, when Mr Ridhardsbn’ waS on board the steamer waiting to take his departure for the South, the discharged civil servant was seen coming along the wharf with his traps. .When ,he got on board Mr Richardson said—“ Hello, where are you going to?” “Wherever you address your constituents in your district; that’s where l am going to, and I intend to give them and yon, too, a bit of my mind.” This was portentous. The Minister did not like the look of things, so ho called the . Under-Secretary, who, as customary, had gone down to the steamer to see the Minister off, and whispered something to him which in turn ths-Under Secretary whispered to the discharged civil servant, the result of which .was that the discharged one took himself and traps ashore: He has since received his compensation, which will render it unnecessary to submit his claim to Parliament. The compensation man is now on his way to Sydney, where, I am told, he has received a very lucrative billet. Sir J. Vogel left for Lyttleton this afternoon.