TELEGRAMS.

Grey River Argus, Volume XXIII, Issue 3357, 22 May 1879, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

GREY RIVER ARGUS SPECIAL WIRE. WELLINGTON NEWS. Wellington, May 21. It is rumored that Parliament meets early in July if it can possibly be managed, instead of at the end of the month as previously announced. It ia understood that Government have decided to make no appointment of a second &.M. for Wellington prior to the meeting of Parliament, as there is no vote available for the purpose. The Government have decided to introduce a Bill in the coming session to provide for a police superannuation fund. Messrs W. A. Parkinson and James Gray have been appointed members of Hansard Btaff, in room of Messrs 0. M. Crombie and G. Downie, resigned. In the matter of the Duntroon and Wakateremea Railway Company, limited, the Waimate Company, limited, and the Waimate Plains Company, limited, the warrant giving the Duntroon and Wakateremea Company power to use Crown Lands, and the consent, under clause 61 of District Railways Act, ia gazetted. A sailor named Henderson was yesterday charged at the R.M. Court with robbing Archibald Bell, master of the schooner Zior, of a L2O note. The accused and the prosecutjr had been drinking together. Henderson was remanded for eight days. Later on in the day Henderson was searched more closely, and the L2O note was found hidden in the toe of his boot. Henderson is thought to be the same man who has been " wanted " for the last five years in connection with a We3t Coast murder. A deliberate attempt was made to burn down the office of Moorhouse, Edwarda, and Cullen, solicitors, Featherston street, last night. It appears that the office was shut up as usual about 6 o'clock, everything then being quite safe. At about 7 o'clock Mr Moorhouse, junior, returned to the office, and found a quantity of old briefs, <fee, stored on a shelf in one of the rooms in a blaze ; fortunately a jug of water was cloße at hand, and he wa3 enabled speedily to extinguish the flames. The.shelf in question is close to a window looking out upon a passage leading to Mr Dransfield's yard ; the window, which is never opened, was found on this occasion raised about a foot or eighteen inches, and several wax matches were found strewn about the room, and also in the passage near the window. The papers destroyed were old briefs, and of no value.