WELLINGTON.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 806, 11 June 1879, Page 2

WELLINGTON.

June 9. Dr. Walter Butler, C.M.G., has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. The sale of the reclaimed land, advertised for the 17th inat., has been postponed until further notice. The Head of the Good Templars in "Wellington has written a highly complimentary letter to Messrs. Hiscock and Hay man, respecting the play of " Ten Nights in a Bar-room." The amount agreed to be advanced bv the Bank of New Zealand to the Corporation on account of the £100,000 Municipal Loan is £10,000. The Governor will probably leave for Auckland about Thursday. Everything is very active ab the Armod Constabulary Depot. Some excellent specimens of the goldbearing quartz are said to have been obtained within a mile of the City, and were exhibited in town yesterday. June 10. The Government have sent home ordering an ample supply of arms, ammunition, tents, etc. The Rangatira when rounding Cape Terawiti, was caught by a heavy sea in the tide rip, and her steering gear carried away. An attempt was made at Halcombe to burn down Bell's boiling-down establishment. Foxton will be gazetted a port of entry next week. The Chronicle says that a gentleman just returned from Taranaki sa} T s To Whiti is acting upon the advice of Mr. Higinbotham, the great Victorian lawyer, in ploughing up the Europeans lands. i After nine adjournments, the two Italians concerned in a desperate affray, in which a man's abdomen was slashed open, were committed for trial. The well-known Mason, D.D. Grand Master Brother John Lazar, died on Sunday, at Hokitika in his 75fch year. There was a narrow escape from what might have been a disastrous fire on the beach. A passing constable found a scullery on fire, which he succeded in putting out. The ketch Alert, from Lyttelton to Napier, put into Worser's Bay, wind bound. This Day. The hearing of the perjury case against Mr Kinross was continued yesterday, but nothing important was elicited. Mr Sievwright conducted the prosecution in the absence of Mr Rees. The case was further adjourned to the 17th. It is stated that Sir William Fitzherbert will be offered, tho Speakership of the Council, and if he accepts, Mr ! O'Rorke will be nominated for Speakership of the House, aud. Mr Hamlin for the Chairmanship of Committees. Tho Insurance Companies have come to the determination to rebuild all properties destroyed by fire when the sum insured is sufficient for that purpose. Recruits for the A. C. force are being actively drilled here, and as soon as ready are senj^off to Taranaki.