LATEST WELLINGTON NEWS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 2983, 27 August 1891, Page 2

LATEST WELLINGTON NEWS.

(l!V TiaKllli.U'H.— t'UES.S A*.S iCtATION), Welli.n'gi'ON', Last Xitrht. Tub body of i\ person naniod R. Mafhicson, a farmer, residing near Marten, was found limiting in tlio harbour olf tlio Thorndon Esplanade tliis lnornint,. Deceased w.is about l."i years nf aue, and had been in town interviewing the Commissioner of Crown Lands, re titles In land. Ho had letters of yesterday's date in his pocket, so lie could have only got in last night, but nothing is known how. A cable from Sydney states that 20,000 ova sent to the inspector of the New South Wales fisheries by the Wellington Acclimatisation Society, arrived in croud condition and hatched nut well. The parliamentary special committee dealing with the Small P.irds Nuisance Hill have submitted to the Crown law olliccrs the motion made by .Mr Saunders empowering local bodies to levy a rate for the destruction of small birds and noxious weeds. The committee have, by permission of the Ministry, requested the Crown law oliicers to draft a Mill dealing with the four noxious weeds—viz., Califoniian thistle, gnrsc, sweet briar, and piickly acacia—for consideration during the recess and adoption next session. Valuable information has boon received from Messrs Wren, He.sketh, Cliei-seman, and iilaekmoro, of Auckland, on the phylloxera vines, and the committee, in dealing with this subject, consider it desirable that the importation of phylloxera-proof vine stocks should be permitted, but that all importations should be quarantined. As the outcome of the deputation of members which waited some three weeks ago on the Railway Commissioners, they have agreed to make a further concession in the case of live stock, implements, dogs and poultry exhibited at agricultural shows, and entire horses exhibited at horse parades, by rebating half the present railway rates in the case of their return unsold to the original station, within one month from the closing of the show or parade. This will be welcome news to intending exhibitors at coming agricultural shows, and .i notification to this effect will be gazetted to-morrow, and at the same time a decrease of 20 to 2G per cent will be announced on the carriage of bonednst, guano, manure, salt, and artificial manures, besides which the minimum quantity to be carried will bo reduced by lOcwt. to a ton and a-half.