WELLINGTON ITEMS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LXXXI, Issue 10258, 29 January 1894, Page 5

WELLINGTON ITEMS.

FPeb Press Association.! WELLINGTON, Jan. 27. A conference of delegates of Temperance organisations in the city is to bo hold next week, to draw up a concerted plan of campaign for the election. The Prohibition League has appointed a committee to consider the necessary steps for the establishment of a permanent organ in Wellington to promote the objects of the Temperance party. The prospectus of the Manawatu Junction Railway Company, Limited, with a capital of .£160,000, has been issued. The company is formed for the purpose of constructing the connecting links of a through line of railway extending from Levin, on the Wellington and Manawatu railway, to Kakariki station, on the Government Pojcton and New Plymouth line, already proposed. The line would shorten the distance between Wellington and New Plymouth by about fifteen miles,

Mr Murray, the Victorian mining expert, and Mr Gordon, Inspector of Mines, arrived this morning from Westport, having inspected the Deep Levels at Reefton. They expect to leave for Thames on Tuesday. The time at Mr Murray’s disposal will nob admit of a visit being paid to any of the other fields in the colony. Mr Murray will furnish his report to the Government before leaving New Zealaud.

About Scwt of stone was broken down across the whole width of the newlydiecovered reef at Wakamarina, and sent to the School of Mines, Thames, for a crucial teat. A telegram was received today, giving the results as follow Gold per ton, loz 2dwb lOgr; silver per ton, 2oz Odwts Bgrs; value, £A 16s 8d per ton. The mining expert who examined the reef intimates that 4dwts, or 16s per ton, will pay all the mine, battery and management expenses, and that a twenty-head battery will put through 200 tons per week, the stone being of an easy crushing nature. In chambers this morning, William Tattle was adjudged a bankrupt by the Chief Justice. The bankrupt left his place of business suddenly last week, and is supposed to bo on his way to Rio de Janeiro. The Rev David Kennedy, S.M., D..D., Royal University of Ireland, who has been attached during the last twelve months to the staff of the Meanee Seminary, Hawke’s Bay, has been appointed Professor of Classics and .Mathematics at St Patrick’s College. [The reverend gentleman is well-known to Catholics in Canterbury, his parents having resided for many years at Papanui. He received his early education from Mr T. O’Connor, at the Catholic Boys’ School, Barbadoos Street.] Another affidavit has been filed in the Supreme Court by Robert James Lindsay relative to his proposed withdrawal from the petition against Sir Robert Stout’s election. In it he sets forth that he has given no security for the prosecution of the petition and provided no funds for that purpose, nor has he authorised any parson to give security for the respondent’s costs, and further that he does not know who gave security, and has no means of paying coses in the event of his being ordered to do eo.

As certain repairs are found necessary to the machinery of the cable steamer Terranora, it is not expected that she will be ready for sea until Wednesday next. The steamer will proceed to'Cook Strait to pick up the two ends of the cable, which will then be buoyed, after which she will return to port for the purpose of taking in sufficient cable for connecting the severed pieces. Jan. 28. There has bean no further obstruction on the part of the Natives respecting the State farm at Levin, and all the police sent up on Saturday morning, with the exception of Inspector Pender and two constables, have returned to. Wellington.