WELLINGTON NEWS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 6125, 11 March 1898, Page 3

WELLINGTON NEWS.

IfER fKESS ASSOCIATION. I *■-•.."■ ; WELLINGTON, March 11. .; The Mariposa, with the English mails of Feb. 12, left San Francisco on Feb. 25, two days late. The Moana, with the colonial mails of Feb. 19, arrived at San Francisco on March 9, the due date. Messrs Gardner and Duncan will make a tour of the colony at the end of the month. They purpose inspecting the machines competing for the bonus of -.1750 offered by the Government for the best flax-dresser, i Six hundred school children from Wairarapa had ah unpleasant experience last night. They got a3 far as Kaitoke on their return journey, and there the engine of the inward Napier train jumped the points and got astride of the main line. It took all night to remove it, and the children and their friends had to. sleep in ; the carriages, and did not get home till nine o'clock this morning. The railway authorities sent up supplies of food. The Napier passengers were brought in last night by an engine and -carriages taken from the excursion train. The Cabinet has authorised votes of -33000 each for the Central North Otago line, -37000 to extend the Mapareo tramway, and .£IOOO to extend the St Bathan's drainage race, repayable in four instalments. It iyas decided to . renew the bonuses for quicksilver andi petroleum, to send scenery exhibits to Turin in accordance with the request, of. the Italian Consul, to increase the value of holdings under the • workmen's village scheme from _El5O to -6300, and to refuse licenses to houses at Opotome, Waikato and Mangaweka. A charge of Sunday trading against the licensee of the Oriental Hotel was dismissed, and an information was laid against a witness named Ennis for misrepresenting himself as atfaveller. He plead_d guilty, I and was fiiiftd _B3 and hosts' * ; I