WELLINGTON NEWS NOTES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10479, 26 June 1897, Page 5

WELLINGTON NEWS NOTES.

[by teleobafh,— own correspondent.] Wjslmnotox, Friday, TITULAR DISTINCTION. A statement telegraphed from Ennedin that the Government, " true to their Domo erotic instincts, made no recommendations as to the Jubilee honours," has causod a good deal of comment here, and I learn that it has not been customary for our Government*, for some considerable time past ab all ovents, to make such recommendations. In conversation with Sir Robert Stout today, he informed me that neither the Grey, Stout-Vogel, nor Atkinson Governments, so far as he knew, over made any such recommendations. Indeed, the only man recommended in this way for titular distinction was the late Sir Patrick Buckley, and he was recommended for knighthood by the Government of the party now in power. Mr. T. E. Taylor does not approve of the titular distinction bestowed upon his leader, "The Right Honourable Dr. Richard John Seddon." Uβ remarked in bitter tones at the temperance meeting last evening:—" It only requires that he should have the title of Doctor of Divinity to make the farce complete." Whereupon the audience laughed very heartily.

PROHIBITIONIST PERSONALITIES. The evening paper wye a "foreign ,1 mission to ministers of Christian Churches who are not Prohibitionists was suggested by Mr. T. E. Taylor, M.H.R., lust evening, as being a capital thine, The speaker ms, as usual, very severe on Christiana who are not Prohibitionists, hie personal references on the occasion noli being in the bead of taste. .

ACCLIMATISATION. The Wellington Acclimatisation Society lias received £400 for shooting licenses, the largest sum bo far collected for any one season.