WELLINGTON NOTES.

Thames Advertiser, Volume XXVI, Issue 7661, 18 October 1893, Page 3

WELLINGTON NOTES.

(MjTBLKOBAPfI-PRE6B; ASSOCIAIION.)!

■ (i; i;;; i;'> •. >: i .:WELi,maTON,'Octpber 17. REDUCTION OF WAGES. i; , Tub ballot papers issued to members o' tho Wellington brancti of thß Austra- .;, lasian Institution of Marine .Engineers ~,;,; iin,connection with; the proposed rednc<;t,A .tion of,'wages,,have been returned to the local secretary, Mr 0. McKcegan, but the result will not be made public just 1 > i'at'present. It i 3 understood that there is ;-\! <a ; general feeling'against the' reduction '^•' i; of more than 10 per cent, ;!;;., ; ,:r-I;.;'';ARAFT,6F ! LpGs, .'.d .; >'• The ! harbo«rraftster at Kaipara has in* '' ;;ii ( forae'd tho Secretary to the Marine ';i l! that a' raft'of logsdrifted , '?/V;^a^ido.Kwpara ) b , ar'pn J Srin'day last, and ly'.-that,-it;may now-'be', drifting, in that ■;, Uvioinity, .; "v.,.-',,; ..■,.,<" ,•,"-, • ■'! THE DIOCESAN SYNOD. .At fjhe meeting of the Diocesan Synod '. ,j •, to-.dajr the '.'showed that in ! .conneolipn'with.the .Melanesian Mission .%! ."■' th? -'. expondituro 'i'bvenae. | Archdeacon Fancoiirt mentioned that no word had been received as to the sac- j f BisHojiSelwyn,, <.',-.- ,' ;_ .■ ■ .:' ' ; ' ..,;•; Mij;Pnlihie,iri 1 address to the eleotors, states that he isnot desirous . to: continue in. political life, and wants it . ;.'.(f.(tolbe understood that if a candidate'of — similar views comes, forward before the end of tho present month heshonld bo allowed the opportunity of retiring.

COMMITTED FOR TRIAL William Noble, who was arrested in the South to-day, was committed for

trial on a charge of vagrancy.

ARRIVAL OF THE ARA\yA. The s,s, Arawa,from London via Capetown, and Hobart, arrived at 4 o'clock this afternoon. i ,;