WELLINGTON ITEMS.

Press, Volume XLIV, Issue 6786, 24 June 1887, Page 2

WELLINGTON ITEMS.

By Telegraph"] [FROM OVVt. COKRESPONDENT.] WELLINGTON, June 23. It is stated that the Representation Commissioners will conclude their labors next week. I learn that they have completed their first rough scheme of redistribution, with certain exceptions, but that they intend to go all through it de novo, and subject it to. a stringent, revision. Their chief difficulty hasten to decide on the three district&that are to be eliminated in the South Island, and these I believe are the exceptions to the completion of the rough sketch. The electorates around Christ-church are said to have giveh- more trouble than all the rest, and even now I understand it te quite uncertain, what decision will ultimately be arrived at. The most elaborate preparations have been made to render any premature disclosures of the new boundaries impossible. All the notes and sketches are left in the strictest custody, and all necessary printing is done by a carefully-selected confidential staff of compositors, picked by Mr Didstxury, the Government printer, and working in locked separate rooms. Before the Commissioners send in their report to the Governor, all their recommendations will be printed, and complete maps 'lithographed. There will also be drawn up a clear and comprehensible explanation for popular use, which will be Reapplied to the New Zealand Press impartially. Special precautions are being taken to prevent any paper stealing a march upon its contemporaries, and to ensure his Excellency being the first person who obtains the slightest authentic information as to what has been done. All this caie is rather ridiculed generally as quite uncalled for. Another nice little compensation case against the Government was begun to-day. This is a case In which the trustees of. Rhodes estate and the trustees of Mrs Rhodes are claiming £10,000 as compensation for land taken by the Government. The amount is made up as follows:—9 acres 2 roods 39 perches taken forthe purpose of the "Wellington and Manawatu Railway, £6000, £3000 by the trustees of the Rhodes' estate for the fee simple and £3000 by Mrs Rhodes for her life interest; 4 acres 3 roods 27 perches taken for the purposes of the Wellineton and Manawatu Railway Company, £1500, £1000 by the trustees of the Uhodes' estate for the fee simple and £500 by Mrs Rhodes* trustees for her life interest; 2 acres 1 rood 5 perches taken for the purpose of the Kaiwarra Battery, £1000 claimed by the trustees of Rhodes' estate; 2 roods 12 perches, taken for the purpose of the Kaiwarra Battery, £1500 claimed by the trustees of the Rhodes' estate and the