WELLINGTON NOTES.

Auckland Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 4, 6 January 1887, Page 4

WELLINGTON NOTES.

(BY TE_EOP.AVH.-eWN C..R.-r:_. .'.:.DK -T.)

Vi'hr/ tNTiTON", this day Tho Mtdlanil Railway.

The contract between tiie Government and ha Mi.iland Ruin, ay Conpany has been fin.lly arranged and eettlod in tho colony, and was forwarded to England by the Sail Francisco mail for submission to the directors of the Company. The newspaper runners of Wellington will be entertained at a broakfast to-mor-row morning by lady friends of the local Rcchabite Tont, Conatabulary Bis Gun Drill. Twenty-live A.C. _fro.n Auckland, undor Captain Morrison, wero passengers by the Hinemoa. Tho rietaohmoi.t lias beon ordered to Wellington to go through a course of instruction in big Ran drill. The Governor's Vi.ic to Duuodln. The Governor intends leaving f. r tiunedin by the Hinemoa on Saturday. His ."tuy in tbo South will probably extend to three months. Mr Matthew Burnett. Mr Mat.tl-.ovv Burnett writes to the Hon, J, liallance that ho intends lecturing in iho Australian colonies upon romiiiisconcca of his i\ow Zealand tour. A Benevolent Society Difficulty. Tho trustees of tho Wellington Benevolent institution have experienced tlio greatest diliieuity in arriving at tlio intentions of the fie.mors and atnendors of tho 110.-pital and Charitablo institutions Act with regard to elections of trustees ol separate institutions. At this week's mooting ono member said that Iho regulations recently is.-ncd only undo confusion worse confounded, and that tlio Act was an idiotic ono altogether. Small-pox Precautions. The regulations adopted by tho Central Board of Health aro tho sumo as woro enforced iv ISS4, when small pox was prevalent in Sydney and Melbourne. In tlte {.resent instance, Iho matter is not eu .orioua us formerly, as tbo diseaso has not yet manifested itself out. ido the t|uarantiDe station. Tho saoie strictness will, however, bo observed in enforcing tho regulation a. en tho previous occasion. An Auc__:and Athlete. Tho Auckland athletics will bo intoiO-ted to learn that Monnock, the well known Norllicrn sprinter, has secured third pri.-.o in tho chief ovont of tlio Caledonian epprta, j which was (inally decided yos-'or^ay.