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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 231, 6 August 1879, Page 2

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(per pkess agency. PARLIAMENTARY, WELLINGTON. Tuesday. Inqniry wrs asked into cause of {dismissal of Captain McKcrsie from the Stella. Notice of motion was given for a suspen] sion of all private bills until next session. Murray asked if subsidies were to he continued to local bodies. The Premier de clined to answer until he knew whether he was going to be at the head of affairs or not' Fox gave notice to ask jn what papers the Government advertisements had been inserted (luring the year, and the amount paid. Macfarlauo withdrew the bill for purging the Bay of Islands electoral roll.

The five million loan was passed through tho Commitco. McLean asked for assurance that no gentleman should be sent home to negotiate the loan, The Premier promised a reply before the bill was passed, and said that the pledge asked for by McLean could uofc be given, but until the intittci Wtis hightioned neither lie nor his colleagues thought of such a thing. The Eil was passed. yls they were not ready with schedules the financial statement, the Premier asked for a day's delay. He would lay statement before the House on Thursday, It was rasher a complicated one, and unusual in form. Clerks could notdiave it ready before Thursday, and prorogation would take place

on Friday. , > Stewart in the Committee moved that writs for the New Parliament be issued within 3 days after the dissolution, and made returnable within 30 days. .....

The new House is to meei'dn' 20th September. The Premier said it wad impossible for him to fix any day under the present circumstances. but he would do the best he could in the interests of the country. ; Debate interrupted, 5.30, :

morning at fourteen minutes to eight, preceded by a rumbling noise, then a vibration, followed by a sharp shook. 1 The members of the House of Representatives are getting up a requisition signed exclusively by themselves, to induce <jtout to re-consider his determination, and allow him self to be nominated at the forthcoming elections.

Major Willis positively denies being a nominee of Pox-'s He claims to be an inde-

pendent local roprcseatative, and his return is consideerd certain. The map of the Murimotu Eoadis completed, The map and report are to be fonvarod to Wellington immediately. LYTTELTON. The Lyttclton Harbor Board's steam tug Lyttelton will make a trial trip to-morrow, near Government Buildings, of her steam fire engine. It is expected she can throw a jet over Government Buildings. Publicans had another meeting respecting the sale of be ;it is expected that they will not reduce prices. (ran RIN.-'.UtOOJIA AT THE BLUFF,) ISLBOURNE. ■ July 2Pth, A terrible n..: tier fras committed yesterday, MrTho:i::..;Finlayson, secretary to Hobson's Bay f,;ii.v,-;iy Company, being the victim, He hail had reason to complain of the drunken habits of an emplovd named Lawrence. Yesterday morning Lawrence, who was still apparently suffering from the effects of drink, was in the oyster saloon at the railway terminus when Mr Finlayson camo in fie again spoke to Lawrence and aecussed him of being drank, whereupon Lawrence took a pistol from his pocket and shot Finlayson dead. Four chambers of the revolver he lmd in his possession were found loaded.

The assassin was at once arrested and couveyed to the lock-up. He lias been remanded for a week, The affair caused very considerable sensation, as Mr Finlayson was very well known and much respected,

There have been an unusual number of violent deaths lately. Not long ago Mr Bates the actor, met with his death in a mysterious maimer, and no donb< he had been robbed, On Saturday a mining manager named Boardraco came to town; next morning he was found dead in tlia streets cf Carlton. There were 110 external marks of violence found on the body, but it has transpired that

the mail's pockets had been rilled, and that his cost had been put 011 reversed. There is no doubt that the crime is greatly on tne increase, which is shown in the number of robberic and acts of violence continually taking place.