WELLINGTON NEWS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXIX, Issue 15, 19 January 1898, Page 4

WELLINGTON NEWS.

(By Telegraph.-Own Correspondent.)

WELLINGTON, Monday PUBLIC-WORKS AND RAILWAYS The Minister for Public Works is '£ pected to return to Wellington on StfE? Mr Ronayne, General Manager of S ways, proceeded to Wairarapa to-day £ inspect repairs on the Maurieevilie Lv way Bridge, which will be open for throe"," traffic to-day. o"

PROHIBITION IN CLUTHA.

Referring to tlu -tilts of prohibition .'» Clutha,MrEru, ,\ inaWerto J morning paper, 4 . th e R ev . J. eh*." 1 He declares that the sense of injustice an! irrigation amongst the opponents of m v bition is "confined to ex-publjcans and their followers," and accuses the W a l magistrate of " open and glaring bias "and of " discrediting the evidence of the 'pohV in nearly every case before him." Com' meriting on this the editor says:—"Mr Hawkins, the magistrate alluded to stated that there has been growing up }n the district a feeling of lawlessness induced by a compulsory law to -which the majority of the people are opposed, that men have become law-breakers and bearers of f a j se witness, and for having had the temerity to say so he is accused of little short of per. jury."

LORD RANFURLY.

A special railway carriage and van fitted up in a luxurious w-'e have been placed at Lord Ranfurly's disposal for an extended tour in the South Island. \v ■■■

WELLINGTON CITY COUNCIL. At a meeting of the Wellington City Council last night the proposal to vote £2,000 for a crematorium was postponed one councillor remarking that " some per' sons objected to the crematorium because they imagined they were going to' be burned before their time."" The item £2,000 for public baths at Te Aro was agreed to after prolonged discussion The proposed vote of £6,000 for public abattoirs was postponed on the ground that^ev would interfere with the meat exporjihjg companies. ' "'"