WELLINGTON NEWS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 6132, 19 March 1898, Page 6

WELLINGTON NEWS.

["Per Press Association.! ■ WELLINGTON, March 18. The Public Trustee gives notice that he claims an unoccupied section of 100 acres at Mungapiko in the Auckland district. After last agricultural show seven parcels of ten sheep each were sent to London for freezing competition, and Mr W. 0. Buchanan was again awarded the first prize. His sheep had also secured first prize when alive. ' When the ship Tima.ru was taken up on the slip recently, about 1000 oysters were found on her bottom. It is supposed that they got there while the ship was in Australia. Tho Executive has declined to receive any further communication from Mr Jellicoe on Philpott's behalf, and the law will therefore take its course. The Bons John M'Kenzie and W. C. Walker leave for Dunedin to-night. Mr E. Mackenzie, of the Carpenters' and Joiners' Society, has been elected president of the Trades and Labour Council. Search parties are out scouring the bush for the man Morgan. It is a month since lie was last seen. The search so far has been^unsuccessfnl. Mr W. C. Marter, the honorary secretary of the New Zealand Amateur Rowing Association, will represent tho Association at the championship regatta at Dunedin. Mr Marter has been instructed by the Wellington Eugby Union, of which he is also honorary secretary, to interview the officials of the Ocago Union in reference to making a match between the two Unions an annual one. The Wellington Rugby Union's annual balance-sheet shows that while it began the season with a balance of .£l3O it finished up with only a fow pounds. This was owing principally to the heavy charges of tho matches played on the Athletic Park ground. The Union intends to ask the New Zealand Union to allow a sevon-a-side tournament to be played for the purpose of defraying the expenses of tho well-known intercolonial player Mackenzie, who is in veiy bad health and obliged to go to the hot spring 3.