WELLINGTON NOTES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9002, 15 March 1888, Page 5

WELLINGTON NOTES.

(BY TELEGRAPH.—OWN CORRESPONDENT.] Wellington, Wednesday. MELBOURNE EXHIBITION. Mr. Callis, Secretary to the Commissioners, has received a cablegram from Mr. Seed, to tho effect that the space to be allowed to New Zealand exhibitors has been increased to 20,000 feet. MRS. HILL. There is an authoritative denial made that this woman, who represented herself as " special correspondent of the Morning Post," London, was at any time a guest at Government House. But she was well known here. Her rotund figure, her huge umbrella, and her reticule, stuffod with official papers, were well known at the House (I mean, of course, the House of Representatives). She quite lorded it over tho messenger, tried to "boss" the Sergeant -at - Arms, and seemed to say, "Cousin" to tho Speaker and the Premier. You are, therefore, mistaken in supposing that she ever entered tho vice-regal drawingroom leaning on the arm of His Excellency. GOLD. Sometime since I informed you that a piece of auriferous qbartz was found in the hills that abut on Lambton Quay, I have not been able to ascertain how much gold it contained, although I believe it contained an infinitesimal quantity ; but the hopes of the Wellington people are not cast down, as may be seen by the following, which I take from the Times this morning : —" There are people working at present not a hundred miles from the Post Office, and getting something nearly approximating to paying returns in virgin gold. Now, the discovery of profitable auriferous quartz lodes would be an unmixed blessing ; but not so with regard to alluvial workings unless they were exceptionally rich, for alluvial mining destroys the country; it converts green and smiling fields into desert places ; therefore, we may hope that due care will be taken in tho prosecution of mining work about Wellington to disturb the surface as little as possible." Is not this a wonderful discovery ?