LATER FROM WELLINGTON.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXV, Issue 3760, 7 September 1869, Page 4

LATER FROM WELLINGTON.

We extract the foliowiug items of Wellington news fioin the Whanganui papers to baud list inglifc : — '1 ho prorogation of the Assembly, says the Whangcuiui Evening Herald of September 3, is expected to take place on Tuesday (to-day). Another parai^aph says that ParLamenb was to be piorogued at 12 o'clock on FruUy. His Bonor Dr. Ftatheiston and Mr. Billon Bell are appointed a oomini88ioH to represent the case of New Zealand to the Imperial Government The telegraph hut between Whanganui and Wellington will be completed and open for sending messages in tho early pail of thU month. The criminal sitting of the Supreme Court commenced o.i Wednesday last. The trial of the three natives for taking part in (he Poverty Bay mas^acie was to commence on Thursday list". The 90 pri oners iu tie Hulk will then be tried, and additional evidence against them is accumulating. Dr. Featherbton returned to Wellington from Melbourne by the ' GothenUirg 'onjthe 30th ult , and Y/dB warmly received by a number of ftiends who wue on th» wlwf wilting his at rival. The Independent of the 2nd s»ys:~ "Afc Sfc Paul's (Jatheilial yestenhy, at eleven o'clock, tV i»t'*re I <tmff cdrrtuony of the celebr tion of the marlutgi' of Mi-j Ka-'e lAdtheistoii to Col nel L'arjui, of Dumdiii, took pl.ne. The wedding was ptrutly priv,'t >, and only a small nmi 1 er of Dr. Feathtraton'a oldebb fiiend^ ?.ere jiescnt on the o^asion. The sinceie wishes of eveiy lnhalntint of the piovnce of Wellington tor h p r happiness will accompany Mm. Oirgi 1 in nor fu lire h'une." On the 2nd mttutt £6,000 was voted to Mr. Fitzherbeit for his labours in Englan J in ' "in >lulaling the provincial kuns of the colony. This sum is in addition to his sa'ary ps C"lor.ial Treasur-r (which he d'Giv al. the tim« he w*h ana, 1 ), besides four guineas a-dny na loan commisbi )n^r. Mr. Brown lvrnaikcd verv properly that £2,000 h »d already appeared o>i thu e&tunvtcs .u expHiihe3 on account of Mi Frzlierbjit's mission, so that altogether some £o,000 w< uld be exjendet. Taut mienv. Tho member for Whanyanui onnaiiieied £i>,000 (|iiit) a maivel of economy for the work done. Ou a division the sum win oirn d, Mesa.y. Biown, Kully, an I Main alone voting i^.unst it, i ut se*eral member, says tho Eoeninq Post, left, tho II >uae t> avoid voting, and aniuugsfc theso wcie Mr. Fox and Mi. Vogel,