LATEST WELLINGTON NEWS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 2739, 1 February 1890, Page 2

LATEST WELLINGTON NEWS.

_ _*_ w_ (BY TELEGRAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Wellington, Last Night. The Coptic was berthed at 10.30 a.m. She left London on 12th December, Plymouth 14th Teneriffe 20th, Capetown, January oth, Hobart 2u'th. Heavy weather was experienced in the channel, but the rest of the passage was a particularly smooth one. The mail consists of 253 bags and 32 bnxes parcel post. Shortly after leaving Teneriffe, a steerage steward, named Charles Lenham, succumbed in a fit of epilepsy. Since her last visit here, the Coptic has undergone an entire change in her list of officers. She has G7 passengers for transhipment from Wellington.

At a meeting of the Standing Committee of the Wellington Diocessan Synod, the Bishop said he could not take any notice of the Bishop of Nelson's requisition to confirm the election of Archdeacon Julius to the See of Christchurch. As Primate, he had written to Archdeacon Julius, informing him of the difficulty of the question now awaiting decision, which is not who is primate? but a far more important one, viz., which is the supreme authority, the General Synod or the Standing Committees? In reply to a question the Bishop said the Standing Committees of Auckland, Nelson, Waiapu, and Christchurch had confirmned Archdeacon Julius' election, but the action of thn Waiapu Committee was invalid and the Christchurch Committee had no power to deal with the question, because that would imply power on their part of reversing the decision of their Diocesan Synod and would make them a body superior to that freni which they derive their power. Attheß.M. Court, Henry White, secretary to the Foresters' Art Union in connection with the Boxing-Day sports, was fined £1 and costs for assisting iu an illegal lottery, and for having illegally sold lottery tickets.

The Government have decided to issue railway passes to members of Fire Brigades who intend taking part in the demonstration here.

The Gazette contains a proclamation from the New South Wales Government prohibiting the importation of sheep into that colony from New Zealand for a further period of one joar.