WELLINGTON.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 875, 28 August 1879, Page 2

WELLINGTON.

This Day. The dispute between Mr. Mackay and Colonel Reader has been amicably adjusted. The former resumed charge of the Maori prisoners to-day. Mr. Mackay has definitely debided not to stand for Waikato. Nearly all the landowners through whose laud the West Coast railway will pass have promised bo give the land required without compensation Mr. Blackett, Engineer-in-Chief, has written to the Mayor that employment for a number of men will be given on the Fox ton railway next Monday. The New Zealand Times was served yesterday with a writ, claiming £5000 damages for alleged libel in an article published on Saturday. Dr. Hector writes from Sydney that the space allotted in the Exhibition to New Zealand exhibits is dark compared with other parts of the building. The number and size of the exhibits exceed the estimate, and the New Zealand Court will be crowded. The' official opening is fixed for September 18th ; but fully a month will elapse before the exhibits can be arranged. Mr. Brandon addressed the electors of Wellington country districts al Kaiwarra on Tuesday night. He stated he was opposed to triennial Parliaments. He thought five years short enough.- He was opposed to re-distribution of seats, and thought the suffrage quite wide enough. Chinese immigration should be restricted consistently with a treaty between England and China. He received a unanimous vote of confidence.