WELLINGTON NOTES.

Press, Volume L, Issue 8535, 15 July 1893, Page 8

WELLINGTON NOTES.

July 14. A renewed application was made before the Licensing Committee to-day for a license for the Wellington Hotel, one of the two hotels for which a license was refused at the annual meeting of the Committee. The main reason for the refusal had been that the licensee was addicted to drink, and a new and satisfactory licensee being forthcoming, this morning the Committee, without a moment's hesitation, granted the license. Ten minutes later the hotel was formally opened,' amidst much jubilation. The Branch Hotel people apparently abandoned all hope of the Committee altering their decision in regard to that hotel.

A representative of the Auckland Brewers' Association has been in Wellington for some days past in connection with the liquor question, and, most highly satisfied with the result of his visit, returned to Auckland to-day. A new police regulation has-been brought into force here. Constables in future are to wear numbers on their shakos according to to seniority, and not at random as in the past. This is to do away with disputes when on duty on the question of seniority. The Trades Council have fixed oh the 4th August as the date for the Conference of Trades Councils.

Archbishop Redwood, who left here a few days ago to attend a great Catholic congress in Chicago, before leaving addressed a circular to the members of his church explaining the objects of the congress. The circular contained the following from Archbishop Ireland, chief promoter of the congress :— "Its special mission is to organise and cause to be held during' the several months allotted to the Exposition international conventions of the scholars and workers of the world along all the lines of human progress in the various departments of civilised life, and in this way to present, through the living voice of the" chief actors, clear and comprehensive statements of the questions in all the fields of activity which vex the souls of men."-

Messrs Cadman and Rees left for Auckland this morning, and were seen off by a number of friends. Mr Rees considers a trap was set him by Mr Cadman, and does not appear over confident of election. Sir G. Grey, he imagines,. however, will "see him through." Nothing is heard here nowadays of the unemployed who mustered, so strongly at the agitation meetings recently. Comparatively few of the men were" sent up country by the Government.