WELLINGTON.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 3398, 1 March 1879, Page 2

WELLINGTON.

lspbcial.j Feb. 28. A telegraph station is to be opened at Brightwater Camp during the Rifle Association Camp meeting. The annual meeting of the New Zealand Times Company was held to-day. The retiring directors were re-elected, and it was resolved to advertise the paper for sale, and if no eligible offer was received within six months, then to place the company in liquidation. Tho compositors' strike has collapsed. The men have withdrawn their demands for increase in pay. The Gas Company is understood to have borrowed £15,000 from the Australian Mutual Provident Society for three years at 9 per cent., to avoid the necessity of calling for additional capital to meet the expense of extending the works. The Customs revenue this month here is £21,906, as against £15,145 in the corresponding month last year. Fifty-six deaths, 63 births, and 26 marriages have been registered this month in the city. Mr Cox, Assistant Geologist, has left for Otago to give evidence as to the condition of the Kaitangata mine at tho last official inspection. Dr Hector goes South to-morrow to attend the University Council, and will also probably give evidence re the Kaitanguta disaster. A meeting of creditors of Amelius Morlaud Smith was held this morning. The bankrupt was subjected to a long and searching examination by Mr Ollivier, after which an adjournment for a fortnight was carried. It was intimated that in all probability an arrangement with the creditors will then be proposed. A boy aged 13, named Richard Pilmer, has been sentenced to 4-8 hours imprisonment and a private flogging for a till robbery and for stealing a gold ring. He will be sent for three years to the Burnham Reformatory. A girl aged 17 was charged to-day with stealing a watch. It seemed she had boon living with the prosecutor for some time, but had left him. Ho followed her and offered to many her if she would come back. She refused, and he then said ho would give her in charge for stealing a watch, which he had given her. The Magistrate dismissed the charge, Baying it was clearly a revengeful one because the girl had refused to marry the man. /'"Shore are now about 1477 statute adult /immigrants afloat for New Zealand, and the 'Government are seriously considering the propriety of cabling to the Agent- General to send out 2000 labourers immediately, to jneet the demand for labour in this Colony. The Zcalandia, with the January Colonial mails, arrived at San Francisco on the 26th, one day in advance of contract time.