WELLINGTON NEWS NOTES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 10081, 17 March 1896, Page 5

WELLINGTON NEWS NOTES.

[by telegraph.—own correspondent. Wellington, Monday, ELECTORAL.

I bear that Sir George Clifford, Barb., will come forward next) election in tho Nationalist interest for a Canterbury seat. Sir George is the son of Sir Charles Clifford, who was tho first Speaker of tho New Zealand Parliament. Tho Clifford family in this colony have been regarded as the political " representatives" of tho Roman Catholic community.

THE CASE OP LEONARD HARPER.

This trial occupied tho Supremo Court the whole of to-day. There was no special fturioeity manifested in the progress of the trial. The Court was filled principally with persons who had some professional reason for boing projeub, such as solicitors or their clerks. Tho defendant; seemed nervous throughout, and considering the great reputation of tho fallon firm, tho hearing of the ovidenco was painful rather than interesting.

SIXI'ENN\ TELEGRAMS. I hear the Postmaster-General has under consideration a recurrence of tho sixpenny telegrams limited to ton words. It is stated for the first time that) the cause of those messages being discontinued was the insufficiency of wires. Owing to the great increase of telegrams for a shilling and upwards there is a largo extension of wire boing provided.