WELLINGTON.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 665, 1 April 1879, Page 2

WELLINGTON.

March 31. The Governor will attend a ball to bo given in bis honor soon after Easter. Two hundred and five immigrants' nominations have been sent home this mail. A cabman is being proceeded against for carrying a corpse in his vehicle, being a brech of the city bye -laws. Great complaints are made by captains of the numerous deserbions which occur in this port. In one night ten deserted from the ship Warwick. Three the next night escaped with all their effects, arid none were apprehended. A full dress levee will be held at Government House on the 3rd April. The New Zealand Loan and Mercan tile Agency report that, at the fourth sale of their series in Wellington, there was a good attendance of buyer*, who bid with a spirit and the rates for wool and skins were fully maintained. The prices realised were up to 7£d for medium cross-bred and greasy, and inferior scoured skins, cross-breds, 5d per pound ; pelts up to Is Id each ; medium cross-breds, 3d each ; lambs, Id ; tallow, first-class white mutton 27s 3d, inferior mixed 18s 6d to 22s 6d ; lxides, none offering. H.M.S. Wolverene sailed for Fiji this morning. The Emerald- remains here three weeks longer. The Hermione, for London, got away yesterday with a fair wind. One of the Emerald's boats capsized in a squall on Saturday evening, but the crew were rescued without mishap. The New Zealander, replying to an article headed "Ministerial Differences," which appeared in the Evening Post, says : — •' Probably no Ministry was ever less divided on any particular point than the present) Cabinet is upon the Waimate question. Without failing to recognise the extreme gravity of the position, Ministers have made no secret of their firm conviction the peril will ].ass away without much delay and without bloodshed. A public meeting of the ratepayers is to be held to-night to discuss the proposed Municipal loan of £100,000. The first consignment of wheat from the Wairarapa will come to Wellington this week. ... The services of the Wellington Naval Brigade have been accepted. The s.s. Zealandia with the London mails of the 27th February, left San Francisco for Auckland on the 17th Maroh, the contract date. The City of Sydney, with the March New Zealand mails, arrived at San Francisco on the 26th March, one day in advance of the contract date.