WELLINGTON.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XX, Issue 5899, 11 May 1886, Page 2

WELLINGTON.

May 10. Iv future telephone exchanges in all the chief towna are to be kept open continuously. The Defence Department have purohaaed from the Government the steam launch Gordon, and ahe ia to be employed in conneotion with the defence works at preaont being carried on at Lyteelton harbour. John Stuart Reid, insurance agent, has been adjudged a bankrupt. The Taiaroa enquiry oloaed, bo far ac taking evidence wa 8 concerned, with the examination of Grant and Hutton, two of the sur* I vivors. Mr Bell addressed the Court for the Collector of Customs, and urged that the Captain had shown great inattention to the course. As to his conduct after the boat struck nothing was said. The Court adjourned till Wednesday, to allow Mr Travera to speak on the captain's behalf. The Premier haa cabled to the Premier of Victoria re the question of the New Hebrides, and atatea that tho Now Zealand Government consider that the New Hebrides should be ceded to France on the conditions that the latter discontinued deportation of criminals to the Pacific Islands, ,T, T ! ie J 1 !?u abl i. k ?' which affixed laat night, aaluted the British flag this morning, and the battery at Kaiwarra replied. The Premier, Colonial Secretary, and Ministers of Justice and Mlnea visit the warship thia afternoon,