WELLINGTON.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 667, 3 April 1879, Page 2

WELLINGTON.

I This Day. The apprentice J ones has been committed for manslaughter on the cook of the Loch Fergus. Nothing new from the Waimate Plains. McKay and Captain Blake are at Parihaki, interviewing Titokawaru and Te Whiti with a view to peaceful arrangement. Mr. Sheehan leaves in the Hinemoa for Opunake, with further reinforcements of A.C. which will raise the strength from 35 to 180. The ketch Emerald, from Gisborne to Picton, put into Wellington last night, in consequence of a German named Pollen having become insane from disappointed love. During the voyage he stated he was worth £40,000, and declared that the women was employing people to poison him, and he could smell poison in everything. On arriving in the harbor, the master got a doctor from a man-of-war to examine the unfortunate man, and subsequently obtained a warrant in order that he might be committed to a lunatic asylum. The revenue, for the third quarter of the financial year ended on Monday is not ascertained. Returns enable an approxinate estimate to be formed, from which it appears that notwithstanding the loss of revenue from deficiency of land sales, there will be a surplus over the estimates. Messrs Ballance and Macandrew started this afternoon to visit the West Coast to go over the part proposed for a new railway line to the Coast, and visit Manawatu, Rungitikei and Wangauui. They contemplate going over the Patea country, up to the Waingongora River, on crossing which they will visit the seat of the Waimate difficulty. The party will be absent about ten days on the tour. Sir George Grey has had an interview with the Governor to-day, at Government House. Typhoid fever is prevalent here.