WELLINGTON NOTES.

Auckland Star, Volume XVII, Issue 98, 24 April 1886, Page 8

WELLINGTON NOTES.

(BY TEI-GR^H-OWHTOBEMPMrBIK,.)

WEUINOTOK.thisda^ The Census. .' The census returns for Wellintrtoti _» not yet been made up, but it ia _dmto_ they will show a considerable increase ov» those previously taken, I believe that Mr A. P. Seymour; aim, i time Chairman of Committees in the Horn! of Representatives, intends to stand far Picton against Mr Connolly at the™* 1 election. , Sale of Dioramas, The dioramao of the Zulu and Jgjpli_ wars were sold at auction on Tknd lT afternoon by order of the OfficiaUseimjj, They were knocked down to __ ft,9 Hed ger, a commission agent, for£6o. __I B Thompson, the late owner,, has tabu t lease of the Albion Hotel, a fins-lookbg hotel ifl thia city, where he is doings well. Martini Henri Rifles. - The Governmedt hare Been seised ilii their order for the Mfirtmi-Enheld lifet, with whioh it is proposed to arm theTolttsteers in each of the four large .centres; »I not be filled until until after the India army can be supplied. The Martiin-En. . field rifle ha 3 been proved to beiafiMtetjr superior to either the Snider o; the MartiniHenri. When the supply i_riy_ _ the colony, the New Zealand' Volmtwn will be as efficiently armed is tie British Army. As some time wiE necessarily elapse before they snite, about two millions of Snider amnwnitk have been ordered from Home for .wh the immediate future. No decision has yet been come to regaiding the division of the battery of guns now on its way out tb;We_ogton_ j the Oamaru, which is expected to ante in j about 3 weeks. - . , A Taiaroa Victim. It is feared that the passenger of tin j name of Wigley drowned in the wreck o! I the Taiaroa was a mesaber of ;_e Sou_ 1 Australian Parliament. The Premier of | South Australia has cabled to Mi Stotl | asking Tor a description of the deceased.