WELLINGTON NEWS NOTES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIII, Issue 7552, 3 February 1886, Page 5

WELLINGTON NEWS NOTES.

[by telegraph.—own correspondent.) Wellington, Tuesday. THE GOVERNOR'S MOVEMENTS. His Excellency has left Christohurch for the West Coast overland. t The s.e. Hinemoa is in waiting upon Lady Jervois to bring her with her family to Wellington. Aftor a sojourn here the Governor and family will proceed to Auckland, where they will remain until the close of the shooting season. WHANGAREI GAOL AND COURTHOUSE. The Minister of Justice is endeavouring to arrange with the Defence Department to provide separate accommodation for the Court, police offices, and local constable. SIR J. VOGEL'S LETTER. The Post haa an article this evening upon Sir J. Vogel's letter to the Auckland Trades and Labour Council, of which it writes in the following terms :•— " It is not by any means easy to understand it, but we take the whole intent of Sir J. Vogel's argument to be a specious and well wrapped up attempt to support and justify a polioy of protection. It is full of transparent fallacies, and although Sir J. Vogel promises so strongly in favour of Conservative Radicalism, he does not even attempt; to indicate what he means by the phrase. Wβ should like him to clearly define the Conservative Radical policy, a phrase used parrot-like, without intelligent interpretation, conveys no real meaning." THE JANET NICOLL AND THE ISLAND TRAIi ■'!. The Poet Office authorities have issued the following notification : —"With referenoe to the correspondence with the Chambers of Commerce and the contractors, requesting that the steamer Janet Nicoll should not come further South than Auckland, the Government now agree to the request, the contractors undertaking to make two additional trips to the Islands per annum, without extra cost, to arrange for prompt oonneotion with the South by the Union Compauy's steamers, and to keep paseengei fares and freights at contract figures. The Janet; Nicoll's next trip to the Islands is on the 15th from Auckland, the Te Auau, leaving Dunedin on the 10th instant, connecting with her." THE DRIVER APPOINTMENT. The Press this evening attacks the management of the Government Insurance department by Sir J. Vogel with characteristic bitterness, The writer, in referring to the statement that policyholders were injuring their own property by keeping up an agitation which favoured the rivalry of the ordinary companies, speaks of the Chairman of the Central Board iu the following terms : —" He professed to have a desire to make the association an independent commercial corporation, with only aa muoh of the official element as was necessary to represent the interests of the Government, but under this pretence he put it completely under the control of himself and hie nominees, and immediately began to make use of it as a powerful instrument of party politic*. From that time to this the affaire of the association have always been a subject of agitation and of indignant remonstrance, and correspondingly its business has fallen off, and its prestige has declined. Sir J. Vogel admits that lately the surrendering and lapses of policies in Otago and Southland have been alarmingly numerous. They have been juet as numerous in other parts of the colony. Why ? Simply becauee the public had no confidence in the association under Sir J. Vogel's management. It was not so much what he sucaeeded in doing as what he tried to do that frightened them. Numbers of people who had been insured in the association for large amounts from the beginning left It to join a non-political company. They are doing* so every day. We are firmly convinced that Sir J. Vogel'a regime will ruin the association."