WELLINGTON NOTES.

Press, Volume LI, Issue 8789, 10 March 1894, Page 8

WELLINGTON NOTES.

(press association telegram.) WELLINGTON, March 9. The Post states that the Government intend to continue the work of legal consolidation by codiiymg the laws in relation to summary procedure. They are also contemplating the introduction of the circuit system among judges in order to prevent the possibility of the functionaries getting into local grooves. A Bill will also be brought forward to define the relations between judge and jury, establishing tbe position thab the former is to confine himself to setting oub the law and the latter to deciding on the facts. The Land Purchase Board has had before it offers of 5600 acres in Canterbury, Otago, and Southland. Of this only 200 acres have been considered worth recommending to the Government for purchase. A storekeeper named . George. Anderson has mysteriously disappeared from Masterton, and the Official Assignee on the petition of Wellington creditors has appointed a receiver and manager of his estate. A semi-official suggestion that Mr Hannay, •x-Rariway Commissioner, should be ta&en into the service of the Commissioners does not appear to have been taken up, as the Post announces to-night thab he intends embarking in pastoral pursuits. Replies have been received by the Government from other authorities to whom Colonel Fox's report was submitted. In the main they support the commandant's conclusions. Four of the big guns are to be shipped to the Armstroig works by the Doric ou her next trip. There will be two eacu from Lyttelton and Auckland. The Tekoa will take one gun from Dunedin. Colonel Boyle has lefr, the colony for good and will not return except to visit Rotorua. Some twenty men will be dispensed with e»n the southern end of the Central Railway, as their work is; completed, and a larger number at the other end. A few will be dismissed on the Eketahuna-Woodville line. The reduction throughout the colony on co-operative works will altogether be about 25 per cent. Negotiations for the Elsthorpe estate, Hawke's Bay, have not been abandoned by the Government, but there is a difficulty over the price. Owing to the scarcity of tonnage for the conveyance of frozen produce, Shaw. Savill and Co. have decided to send the Rangatira out from London in ballast on Monday. (This of course means a considerable loss on the outward voyage. The Matatua was to leave yesterday.