WELLINGTON NEWS NOTES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 13137, 22 November 1904, Page 5

WELLINGTON NEWS NOTES.

' (FJIOII OUR OWN ConPESPOXBEXT.) November 21. Tho steamer Turakina, which arrived from London yesterday, brought a shipment" of stud sheep for various Now Zealand breeders. The stock is consigned as' follojm;—Ellis Bros., Wellington, 2 South Down ewos; D. Grant, Temuka, 1 Leicester ram; New Zealand and Australian Land Company (Limited), 2 Border Leicester rains and 2 Border LeicesW ewes; Mr L.Whyte,' Lytielton, 1 Shropshire ram and 10 Shropshire ewes; Mr Reid, Oamam, 6 Border Leicester rams and 1 Romney Marsh ram; Messrs Little Bros., Ngapara, 2 BorderLeicester rams and 6 Border Leicester ewes; Mr W, Grant, Tiinuru, 1 Border Leicester ram.

As mentioned the other day. tho various Commissioners of C.rown LamfeVhave been summoned to.meet the Minister of, Lands in Wellington to consider the land settlemont conditions of the colony. Snrpriso was expressed when it was found that members of the Land Boards had not been invited to ,attend. Representations on tlio subject were made to v tho Government, with the result that an invitation has also been sent to all members of tho boards to bo present. ... It has been decided-that tho State Fire Insurance department is'to begin business on January 1. Tlio Government has experienced difficulties of jarious kinds, in completing its arrangements to bring the net into operation, but it is'understood that theso have boon ovMcoihe, and that the appointment of tho headquarters staff and of tho district agents has now been decided upon. Professor Rutherford, of M'Gill University, Montreal, who was born in Nelson in 1871 and was recently awarded the Rumford medal for researchos in radio-activity, is about to return to New Zealand on a visit to his relatives in the colony.

.Captain G. W. Russell, li.N., brother of 3>r William Russell, has been made a rearadmiral. 1 ®

In regard to the robbery of the Ttirakina's mails, it is stated that on the detectives boarding the vessel in Wellington yesterday they found the interior of tho mailroom much disturbed. The thief, or thieves, had oonlinod" their attention apparently to tho mail containing for the most ijai't cards and presents from Homo people to New Zealand friends. It is iinpossiblo at. present to discover what is missing. The police are inclined to tho . belief that the robbery was committed while the vessel was at Ilohnrt, as in order to reach tlio mail room it is necessary to take off the hatches, and they were not opened except at Hobarfc until tho Turakina arrived here.