WELLINGTON, To-day.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XIII, Issue 4488, 29 January 1886, Page 2

WELLINGTON, To-day.

Mr G. V. Shannon, Captain of the Wellington Rifles, is gazetted a Major in the New Zealand Militia. j The Customs authorities have been in- j structed to put into force the existing proclamation dealing with the codlin moth pest. This, however, refers to pears and apples imported into the colony from out- j side. With internal measures against fcJtfS' pesb the Customs authoritutT, " have nothing to do. The Acfc of l^/di contains provisions for dealing ■\VAu'the difficulty. The Colonial has received a number-^. 'Velegams alluding to the increase of the moth in the colony. It is said to be particularly active in the North. Yesterday, afternoon Mr Press, landlord of the Prince of Wales Hotel, went out for a ride to Island Bay taking his young son with him. The horse became restive and Mr Press put the boy on a a dray loaded with shingle going to town. In the afternoon the lav was brought to the hotel insensible and apparently dying. He had been picked up on the road with a broad mark across- the stomach as of a wheel. Mr Press does not know on what dray the lad was put nor ia it known who brought him to the hotel. The afternoon train yesterday to Masterton met with an accident at Silverstream, four of the goods waggons leaving the rails and being considerably damaged. On board the train were several horses engaged at the Wairarapa meeting, but the only injury done was to one of the grooms who had his foot crushed by a horse rolling on him. The other passengers escaped uninjured. Information was received to-day from the quarantine station that Miss Welchman, the young lady who arrived by the Hurunui stricken with typhoid fever, was much worse. Dr Johnson and Captain Rose went off to the Island, and the Doctor reports that Miss Welchman is altogether free from the fever, and haa been so in fact for some days ; but a tendency to consumption, with which she has been affected for some time, has developed into unmistakeablo phthisis, and she is now in a very precarious condition. Later. Miss Welehman, the typhoid patient, from the ship Hurunui, has died at the quarantine station from phthisis, which she was suffering from when the fever abated. DUNEDIN To-day Mr Larnach has gone to Switzers. Tho Rev. J. Gibbs has been inducted to the First Church. There has been and is heavy rain here. The District Board has asked the Government to stop all subsidies to Roslyn and other boroughs who refuse to contribute to hospital and charitable aid. A.t Palmerston the K.M. has dismissed a case against a wholesale dealer for selling less than two gallons of whisky on the ground that section 157 of the Act does not create any offence as to the quantity sold. Captain Baldwin, Mr Thomas Dick, and Mr Fish will contest the city seats at the general election. Messrs Dick and Fish were members formerly. Admiral Scott will oppose Mr Ross at Roslyn, Mr Corncross will oppose Mr Fulton at Taieri, and Mr J. Green (a former member) will oppose Mr J. C. Buckland at Waikouaiti.