WELLINGTON.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 817, 24 June 1879, Page 2

WELLINGTON.

This Day. Some of the Insurance Companies decline further risks* m populous parts of the city. One agent declined to renew a policy, having stringent order' not to take risks m Wellington for some time to come. „ It is stated that if, after the Government have done all. vhat can be done to prevent / bloodshed m Taranaki, hostilities should take place, they will send their Flying Column of Constabulary, now; three hundred strong, to break up the Parihaka <> settlement, leaving the protection of the ' Taranaki frontier and Waingongoro River to the settlers m their respective districts. Major Roberts, who covered the retreat at Okatuku m the last war, has been sent for to take command of the Constabulary, and Major Noakes will control affairs on the Waingongoro boundary. ! It is stated that Rewi will send five hundred Manupotos it , required, ; and even without the Ngatiporou contingent, the Government calculate on being able to place a thousand friendly Natives m districts disturbed, should occasinn arise. The Premier received yesterday telegrams from Major Brown, at Hawera, m wnich he stated that the same party of Natives who had been turned off on Sunday, numbering fifteen, returned yesterday to continue ploughing, Mr. Livingstone's lawn, and were again removed, together with their ploughs, by the settlers to the other side of the Waingongord River. Those Natives were not armed j but on the other side of the Waingongoro, large numbers of Natives were assembled, who were said to be armed ; but Major Brown was unable to obtain reliable information on that point. *. The steamer Manawatu left here last night for Wanganui with fifty more Armed Constabulary. A Departmental . Commission is sitting, inquiring into charges brought by Mr. W. L. Trovers against Mr. Allan, Registrar of the Supreme Court, m respect to taxing bills of costs. The New Zealand Shipping Company have received cable advice of the arrival m London of the barque Fernglen from Wellington, after a passage of 9 2. days. Mr. A. M. Smith, formerly assistant Colonial Secretary, has been appointed Private Secretary to the Colonial Treasurer. The new Charitable Institutions Bill, prepared by tbe Government, provides for the payment of a subsidy out of the' Consolidated Revenue for a period of 5 years, not exceeding half the cost of maintaining any Charitable Institutions.