LATEST WELLINGTON NEWS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 2936, 9 May 1891, Page 2

LATEST WELLINGTON NEWS.

(BY TIUKIiKAI'H.— I'KESS ASSOCIATION.) WELLINGTON, Jjist Night. Till: Acclimatisation Society has pasted a resolution that it is desirable that stops he taken to secure the importation of such game as is within the range of the society's own funds, or with tho co-operation of other societies, and steps will be taken in the meantime for preserving the Rains we have and any that may be imported. The report stated that during the year 1.5'.10 IS-1 Loch Leven and 1;j5,105 brown trout had been distributed. At a meeting of the Acclimatisation Society, attention was drawn to the existenco of stoats and weasels on this side of the Knniitaka, and it was pointed out that their existence prevented any possibility of ™,imo being preserved. It was decided to take steps to prevent the influx of these vermin into districts where rabbits are not numerous. A man named Pearce was killed near Halcoinbe yesterday. The waggon he was driving capsized over a bank and fell on him. The Dunedin Trades Council have recpiested the local Conned to tike steps to prevent the unemployed going to Australia to assist the pastoralists in tlie'r trouble with the shearers. It was decided to communicate with the country branches of the Knights of Labour on the subject. On June Ist Mr C. -S. Cooper, UnderSecretary, completes his fiftieth your in the service of the colony. The Marine Department consider there is no necessity for an enquiry as to the effect of the iron sand near New Plymouth has on ships' conip.iss.Rs, or as to the alleged current there, seeing that so many vessels run there without making any allowance, and it is doubtful whether tho iron sand lias any effect on the compasses, even when close on shore. As to usir.g Sir William Thomson's soundings machine, as recommended by the YVanaka Court of Enquiry, the Government consider it a matter blithe shipowners rather than them. Tho New Plymouth and Waitara Harbour Hoards will be written to asking them to strengthen their lights, and the Government has decided to bring prominently before the Union Company the statement mado at tho enquiry that the uso of tho lead is honoured more in the breach than the observance.