LATEST WELLINGTON NEWS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 2895, 3 February 1891, Page 2

LATEST WELLINGTON NEWS.

(nv TKi.ia.nAeii —imicss a.-mici.m'iov.) Wi.'i.i.iMir'iv. Last Ni.-ii 1 . Mil OwKN, one of the railway t:, sua' disclnie.el some, lime back, h-s bv,m 1

employed. Minist.'i-s iubmd by pr- i,.,l influence to mljitst the differences b.-sw-en the Kailway Commissi,ner-: and their late fimilnviiwiiiliuii I'!'-.-. Argument in the Whitaker-i I iilahi ■■■ m libel ease will be hoard before the Chief ■ In,l ice. on Wednesday. Ileaw rain which lin fd'en le'ie In-: mjnied'the crops in the \V.,irarapa di-fr ti k'l.

At the annual meeting ..f the (bis Company, Llieehairniaiist lied thai. thee.mpa!*' had bvn seriously alleeled by tie; stii!;.-, and it had been driven to the extremity •■( obtaining coal troui Newcastle, wide!) b.r •"..makiiiK was infeiior to the West C u-l eoai. The i.aul dividend v.ie doelaiel. lint the company was not in a position to eirrv anytliint.' forward.

" A' uiutied cmpiirv v/as Ih-I-I to ■!-■>• >c Sardine; the steam' i I'nkaki strikm„■ uii a roe!; in Olian Hav on 171.1 i January while on n vi,v-i"u from Wastnor:, tn W',,iM;i;.-t-n. 'I'll-.'. " ..".alienee showed th.it the I'nk.-iki ll'.H I II! Itllllf- illl.li till! buy f ■ 11" shelter, Lilts weather belli"; very stormy. The Court held that Captain Oliver should have iiso'l more precaution to ascertain his positi.ill Until 1.6 did, and that had tin; lo n ' been used it would have been apparent that thu vessel was nearei Chan l'.ay than indijalcd by the bearings. Thu caplam :il-o erred in not heaving thu lead. His eeiiiiieaLo was ri'tuniL'd. l;tit he was ordered to pay the costs of the cwiuiry. Messrs Kces and Carroll, M.11.1U, wen-to-day chosen by the Cabinet as the commissioners to impure into the law lelatint; tothe title of native lauds tiiion;;h..r,l Ilia e dony. The commi-sioners will spend at least two months in iu.-rilntiii.r impaies with lenard to the native titles in the .veto Island. It is improbable that any ..'.e.-r

frentlemen will he app..int--.l \, iiii Me.--rs Roes and Carroll, whoeonnn .-nee theirduii-a nlmost immediately from the Kist O a-t thou nn to Auckland. Vv.iiii Auaklnid they will come (hnvu the centre ..f U.'i Nawl to Xewl.'lyiunuth. th-m- l> Welhnpttcn rvncl hick t'i the K.i*t C>.-'. Mr M. ,1. Camion will probably in :tpp 'into'l interpreter and cleric to til- < '.>i-iuif--- ; «>nct r.