WELLINGTON NEWS NOTES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVI, Issue 9324, 29 March 1889, Page 5

WELLINGTON NEWS NOTES.

[BY TELEGRAPH. —OWN CORRESPONDENT.] Wellington, Thursday. THE BATTLE OF THE ROUTES. Dr. Newman, the member for Thorndon, "hangs out his colours" this evening in a letter to tho evening papers, with the following conclusions thereunto :—lt is mosb true that the £1,000,000 was borrowed expressly to make the Central line from Marton to To Awamntu, and that you, sir, in leaders, have ably shown that the loan is " specially earmarked yob I know legal opinions have been taken as to the feasibility of driving the legal conch and six through it, and by a vote of Parliament diverting the money to the Taranaki lino. In a few months, during the coming session, this battle is to be begun anew ; and, if tho section of the Government at war with the Contral manage a majority in favour of the other, then good-bye for many a long year to the real progress this city and its back country ought to make. Good-bye to that growth of buildings, that increase of trade, that expansion of shipping, that enlargement of the frozen moat trade, that widening of settlement for which Wellington so greatly longs, and in developing which her citizens spent so much cash in building tho Maria watu Railway." GERMAN AUSTRALIAN STEAM SHIPPING COMTANY. Mr. Gustotv Von dor Heyde, the oolonial manager of this company, lelt bore for the South last night, This is a now company started at Hamburg with a capital of £400,000. The company has six stool steamers in course of building 'on tho Clyde, each 3600 tons burthen. They are severally named the Essen, the Solinger, the Chemnitz, the Sommerfeldt, the Baurmen, and Eracngen. One steamer of the Hoot has boen completed, the Eberfuldt, which will start for Sydney on tho 9th of May. The time of the voyage will be 28 days. Mr. Von der Heyde, after having visited the Southern centres, will go to Auckland. He hopes in the course of a short Lime that these hosts will call at New Zealand. His headquarters will beSydnoy.

WELLINGTON COLLKOE. The University College endowment, originally fteb apart for Wellington, to some years a?o exch.'trig'ed for the land in -To Aro, upon which tho Wellington College now stands. Mr. Tracers, tho eminonb lawyer, has thrown the following legal bomb-shell among tho Wellington College (iovernor*:—" I have tho honour to call your attention to the fact that aa trustees for that part of land mentioned in tho first schedule to tho Wellington City Reserves Act, 1872, which was conveyed to you on 7th February, 1877, for tho purpese of a collegiate institution, affiliated to the Now Zealand University, you have for years past jsermitted to be used by tho Governors of the Wellington College, although tho affiliation ot that College to the University had been withdrawn in consequence of the non-observance of tho conditions upon which tho charter was granted. May I request that step* thu..." at once be taken to put this matter upon a proper footing, otherwise I shall feel obliged to institute proceedings in tho Supreme Court for tho purpose of com [wiling a flue observance of tho trust.lam, etc., VVm. Thorn Locke Travers." The negotiations for the transfer wore conducted by Mr. Bunny, a member of the House. The Board of Governors passed a resolution to take legal opinion.