WELLINGTON.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXVI, Issue 3972, 16 May 1870, Page 6

WELLINGTON.

We have files of the Wellington Post and Advertiser of the 10th, and of the Wairarapa Mercury* ■ The Wairarapa Mercury says that militia men there have to ride 27 miles' to drill.- " ; Mrs, Buckley was knocked down by 'a bolting horse and injured severely. A twenty years resident named Charles Howard died suddenly. The Port of Call Committee meeting was a failure. It was very poorly attended. The principal' subjects attended to were — the payment of expenses already incurred, and the ordering a map to be lithographed showing the different routes and distances. The Wellington >Pos£ compliments Mr. .Stock on, i hid pertinacious ■ advocacy of Tricker's liberation. - ' There was another Mormon' meeting at Karori Hill on the 9th. Elder Beauchamp was " tackled I ' by^Mr. Toomath, who eoni,pletely < worsted the aposttei -Beaxicham^, tinding -himself worsted in argument, 'gaye "way to abuse, and used, language, utterly disgusting, in the presence of a number, of females. t i Persona are shooting teal, ducks, &c, in Wairarapa, more especially in the vicinity 1 of the lake. Judge 1 Smith opened the Land Court at Greytown on the 27th ultimo. A native ;named' Pirini te Apatu claimed 1,900 acres south of Flat Point. The spread of scab in shee r p is exciting alarm at Wairavapa. Sbringent preventive measures are being taken by the authoritfen,'