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Evening Post, Volume XVII, Issue 397, 18 April 1879, Page 2

The immigrants by the Stad Haarlem landed immediately on her arrival this morning, and, proceeded at once to the Barracks. A strong force of police was in attendance on the wharf to keep the middle T clear until the large' steamer was brought alongside, and while the, immigrants and their luggage were being landed. The immigrants themselves are a very robust, sturdy looking set of people, and appear in excellent health. They seem in every: way suited to become capital colonists. ' At the inquest on the body of tha little girl Jamieson, this morning-, Dr. Johnston (Irew the attention of parents to the way in which children of tender years are allowed to .roam, about the streets. With the thoroughfares so crowded, he said, it was no wonder that accidents occurred. Messrs. Eebble Bros.' large flour-mills in Courtenay Place have been re-opened, after being closed for six years past. Messrs. Ji and T. Meek, the well-known grain merchants and millers, of Oamarn, have taken the premises, and, a* everything was in perfect order, were able to start work at once. Last Monday the mill started running, and three run of stones have since been kept at'full work to supply the demand for Wellington and neighborhood alone. ~ There is a fourth ran of stones, and this will be at work in a few days. At present the mill is turning out about ten tons, or eighty bags, of flour per day, but if the spare stones were «t work,-' and tb,e machinery was kept -running night and day, this output could be more than doubled. The machinery is of a modern description, and in excellent order, Messrs. Kebble Bros., when in business, keeping well abreast of the time. The stones, &c, are driven by a compound beam and horizontal engine, of about 60 h.p., the steam being supplied from an enormous Lancashire boiler. A flour-mill on a largo scale has long been felt to be a necessity in Wellington, and if one firm more than another is certain to command success,, that firm is Messrs. J. and T. Meek, .whose flour is noted* throughout the colony,*and who have for some years past done a large trade with Wellington. As will ba seen from the report in our shipping columns, the Go-Ahead, which arrivedjin port this morning, had a rough passage from Wanganui. A heavy gale was me,t with yesterday morning, and at half-past 11 it became so rough that, at the request of some of the passengers, Captain Dicker put into Ohau Bay. Three of the passengers—Messrs. G. v. Shannon, Hewitt, and Sufcted—were so alarmed at the knocking about the vessel had sustained that they ptrrsuaded the captain to pat them ashore in one of the boats, and they then tramped into town from Cape Terawmti, arriving here weary and footsore af about 7 o'clock this morning. Thjs Go-Ahead meanwhile remained in the shelter of the bay until 5.30 this morning, when the gale having moderated she got under way, arriving in harbor about 10 o'clock this morning. Messrs. J. H. Wallace and P. Moeller J.P.s, sat in the old Resident Magistrate's Court this morning to hear the only, ease on the list —a charge of assault preferred by Robert Pitch against Frank Mountain. Mr. Cutten appeared for the complainant, and Mr. Fitzherbert ior the defendant. Plaintiff did not appear, although Mr. Cntten said he had been speaking to him some few minutes previously. He suggested that the man might have gone to the new Resident Magistrate's Court, in which the District Court was being held, and the magistrates consented to wait while he went in search of his client. Mr. Cutten, however, failed to find the man, and after waiting for half an hour the Court dismissed the information, with costs against the plaintiff. The usual fortnightly meeting of the City Council was to have been held last night, but after waiting half an hour the meeting lapsed for want of a quorum, there being present only his Worship the Mayor and Councillors Allen,