WELLINGTON.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VIII, Issue 1291, 7 April 1881, Page 2

WELLINGTON.

► A proclamation In the Gazette yesterday extends 1 the operation % b£ the Maori Prisoners Act for a further period of three months. Edwavd trarton, Secretary of the Wellington South Pacific Loan Society, is believed to have absconded. The society is an association of working men for the purpose of investment of their savings. It . is , stated that Garton's accounts, when submitted a '.fortnight ago, showed discrepancies amounting to Jijefewepi} £200 and £300. Heis-s*Vpp«*ad l tol4iive decamped by flxft .Norfolk, steamshin to Sydney. "'The police Are iibSv investigating the matter. < " The Clyde Hotel, Clyde Quay, was completely gutted by' fire yesterday morning. The- fire "originated in the kitchen, where a small tire was left in the grate when- tke landlady -rebircdL Insurances, building, furniture and stock, National and South British for £600. ' A cablegram received by the Government states the -delay jn . the passage -of- the mail steamer -City of New York was caused by the breaking of the, crank-pin four days after she left Auckland. " ' v.. **„;.-.«. William Michael Do\vnes, ; clerk in the office of Brandon and "Son, who was recently committed for trial on a charge of tampering with law stamps, was yesterday committed for trial on two other cliarges of a similar nature. - Bishop Redwood arrived here yestevday after his visit to Rome, and met with an enthusiastic reception 'from his numerous parishioners. After the address of welcome from . thfr clergy 1 liad been read, a number of other addvesses were presented, each, accompanied with a purse of sovereigns. A number of congratulatory telegrams from all parts of the Cdlbhy . ,'were also read. His Lordship, in responding spoke of the pleasure it afforded him to receive sucb protestations of good will and loyalty to the Church. He spoke at some length of his visit to Rome, and his reception by Leo XIII. The proceedings were brought tb a close by the choir singing the Te D«mn.