LATEST WELLINGTON NEWS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXV, Issue 2878, 23 December 1890, Page 2

LATEST WELLINGTON NEWS.

(UY TELKGU.U'K — I'IUiHS AHSnCIATION'.) Wki.ungti.v. L ist Night. Mil Tiitlku. a grocer, claims £U!0 from the corporation for damages from tlie rum- , . , 4 . Carmiehael's tender, which was accepted .< for the Harbour B wnl buildings was £11,2*5-1. The engineer's estimate was £11,200. The Education Board recently sent a committee to look into the fequiremcntH of Lbe country schools, and they find there is urgent necessity for increased accommoda'"The Rimutaka left Rio on Friday for Plymouth. All well. Captain Edwin forecasts stormy weather from the North-West, changing by North and West, with low glass between to-day and Thursday next. The New Zealand ShuipingCompanv ha"3 received advice of their new steamer Tekoa having left London on Saturday for Australia. , . . At a meet ing of the Trades and Labour Council Relief Committee, it was reported that several compiling had been received a* to the alleged boycot'ing by the Union Company. After taking evidence in .sunport the Council resolved to write to Mr Mills on the subject*. Yesterday the body of a man named Manaway was found deui at I'oliangatia, in the l'almerston district, under the limbs of a tree. Mo had been mining aince December tith. . The Premier goes t,o Cniwtehurcu tine afternoon for the Christmas holidays. The (Jueen his consented to become godmother to the Governor's son. At a meeting of the Council of the Chamber of Commerce tins afternoon it was decided to draw the attention of the Government to the grave consequence to the trade of the colony arising fiouj the docisiou in the Court of Appeal iu the cise* brought against the Official Assignee m the estate of Kinross (X qier). Too ciiect of the decision was to enable the trustee - f'! c estate to recover back from hin creditors all Hums paid away by the bankrupt wifclun three months of his bankruptcy, lhey decided to request the Government to brine forward early in the session the promised amendment in the Bankruptcy Act. Sir Wm. FitzhHrbert has greatly unproved in health, but the cold from which he has been suffering h-w lightly impaired his hen ring. Ilis son stites that this may possibly prevent him fr«on resuming the Speakership of t-hn LcsisUtive C"V>neil.