LATEST WELLINGTON NEWS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2114, 26 January 1886, Page 2

LATEST WELLINGTON NEWS.

[by telegraph.— press association. 1 Wkllinuton, Monday." At the Magistrate's Court this .afternoon, Frank McDowell was chained, on remand, with embezzling two sums of money belonging to Jas. McDowell. The prosecuting counsel asked permission to withdraw the information, br they were unable to prove the specific amounts. He intimated that a fresh information would be sworn against McDowell for embezzling sums of £90 i)s lid, the moneys of Jas. McDowell. H.M.S. Opal, which arrived at Ilimsell from Hobart yeHterday, will probably be ordered to come on to Wellington. It wa<« understood to be Admiral Tryon's first intention that the Opal should hive accompanied the Nelson on her visit to New Zealand, but when he left Sydney the Opal was engaged on a mission down among the islands, It is expected that Sir G. Whitmore and Major Boddiira will leave here on Fiiday next to join the Admiral on his inspection of the Southern defences. The proposals of Admiral Tryon re the establishment of an Australian Navy will be discussed immediately there is a Cabinet in Wellington, and a formal reply will then be forwarded to the Admiral. No further information has been received re the reduction un the cable chaierea. The Minister for Public Woika, -who returned from the North this morning, expects that the railway from Auckland to Te Aroha will be opened in March, and that from Auckland to Lichn'eld at an early date. It has been stated here that the Government intend, to bring before Parliament a ftcopqsal to purchase the German interest n Samoa, but as yet nothing definite on the question has beeu decided by the Government. The Minister of Lands leaves for the South on Friday, on business connected with the Lands Department. In reply to the lass cablegram sent to England^ by the Government re the action of Germany at Samoa, the Secretary of State for the Colonies cables that Germany has given an assurance that they have no intention to annex the island. The Native Minister has received no information respecting the action which Tawhiaois reported to be taking against the Government for trespassing in connection with prospecting in the king country. T-he Maori obstruction to rp,ad leaking at Kawhia U stopped, and the natives thornselves are now assisting in clearing scrub. It is the intention of the Government to push on the road, and it is hoped it will be completed to Alexandra before winter sets in. Kawhia will be connected by telegraph when the road is completed.

lUviJ} Ifu^E, the historian,, ol served that all the devout' men* he had met vyith were melancholy. Bishop Hume remarked in reply, that this might very probably be the case ; for, in the first place, it was most likely he saw very few, his friends and acquaintances being of a very different kind ; and, secondly, the sight of him would make a devout man loqk melanohqly at any time. 'Mr John Kno^ will sell at the residence of Mb' R. 'E. M. CartnpWH, Hamilton East, on TUOrsday npxt, the household ntroiture of I*l r