WELLINGTON NEWS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 6127, 14 March 1898, Page 3

WELLINGTON NEWS.

FPer Press Association.! " WELLINGTON, March 14. The Cabinet has passed a vote of .£5600 for telegraphic connection between Auckland and New Plymouth, and authorised an expenditure of .£22,000 on railway rolling stock. • The reward for the discovery of the ' horse-stabber at Christchurch has been ! increased to _500. The annual session of the New Zealand branch of the Medical Association begins to-morrow. The examination of military cadets to undergo a couise of training in England ] resulted in the selection of Pilkington (Auckland) and Hall (West Coast). Among the Klondyke passengers by the Miowera were Mr Butland, the well-known ■ : footballer* and Captain Robertson, late ' harbour-master at Onehunga, who repre- . sents an Auckland syndicate. Mr Justice Williams has tendered his resignation of the Presidency of the Arbitration Court, as a prelude to taking a trip Home. The executive will nbt consider the cases of the murderers Philpott and Clements till the Governor returns at the end of the week. Mr Malcolm Ross and Mrs Ross and party made a successful ascent of Ngaruahoe and Ruapehu, and got a good view inside the crater. The former found the Lake Ruapehu crater quite cold, and ice floating in it. He believes that the reports of steam issuing from time to time were merely caused by ashes blowing about. A quantity of rainbow trout have been liberated in the mountain streams.