WELLINGTON NEWS.

Waikato Times, Volume XL, Issue 3205, 10 January 1893, Page 2

WELLINGTON NEWS.

(B\TKtH!HAPH.-PRK3S ASSOCIATION). WELLINGTON, Last Nigln. Oatt, a prisoner, who escaped from custody, on Saturday night, was recaptured at two o'olock, this morning, on Lambton Quay.' The tenth annual meeting nf the Council of the New Zealand Educational Institute opens to-morrow. Among the business to be considered is the question of establishing a Court nf Appeal for teachers, adopting a uniform scale of salaries throughout the colony, placing the teachers under the control of a Central Department, the inauguration.of a pension scheme and retiring allowances for teachers 011 the same principle as adopted in the case nf civil servants, and l»l:icins inspectors under the control of the Education Department. The desirableness nf merging the Institute into a Teachers' Union will also be :onsidered. At a meeting of tho stewards of the Racing Club, this morning, a letter was received from the postmaster explaining that through a mistake nf his clerks a number of letters, received on Thursday and . Friday last addressed to the secretary of the clob, had been re-directed to Dunedin, but were now on their way back. Tho stewards resolved that all nominations bearing the Wellington postmark before 9 p.m., which were accidentally sent by the PusUflice officials to Dunedin, shall,, under the above circumstances, be taken as having been received in due time, in accordance with th». published programme. Tho weights will now bo declared on Thursday next, instead of Wednesday.

For the nine months ended December 3tst. "1892, the consolidated funds nf the cnlnnv amounted to £3,021,791, as against £2,847,735 fur tho corresponding period of the previous year, The ordinary revonue collected for the nine months ended 31st December, 1892, was £2,954,220, as against £2,780,2'J1l for the same period in tho previous yoir, and the land fund was £78,537, as against £(17,538.

A labourer, named Thomas Freeman, working at Turanganui, on the East Coast, who was missed on Monday last, and found on Wednesday, in an exhausted condition, lingered till Friday, when he succumbed. A post mortem examination showed that death resulted from an abscess on his lungs accelerated by exposure. A verdict was returned accordingly.

Tlio first wool shipped from Wellington to Aineiic.v was taken by the barque. Star of liist, wliicli sailed for New York, tndav.

It is expected that Inspector Thomson will leavn to take charge of the New Ply-month-Wanganni Police District, on li>iday. A presentation of a purso of sovereigns, subscribed bv the public, is to lie mado tii-tnorrow, by Mr Dutliio, formerly Mayor, in the absence of (lie present Mayor. Tim amount, it is e.ipecteil, will be close on 200sovs,