TELEGRAMS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 941, 12 May 1883, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

. [?KK PEEBS AIWOOIATION.] - A Ball. Auckland, To-day. LadyJervois gave a ball at Govern" meat H6nse yesternight. i ~ , Auckland Museum. - MrL. D. .Nathan; while travelling ip Egypt. recently purchased a number of 'cariosities, which he has presented to the ' f Museum. ‘ ’’ '' ' ' 1 ' The, TJ Diversity. I 1 The, Governor mil open the tJniversity ou Monday week. Professor Walker’s Successor. - .The Colonial. Secretary has cabled to - -the*' Agent-General to appoint a successor to Professor Walker, from the applications already in hand, if desirable. . Found Dead. - The body of Alison, a buahman, baa if been'found at the foot of a cliff near Me- ' Cbanio’s Bay. He had evidently fallen ' oveir into the Harbor. The deceased has * 5 ’ been, in town for a month, drinking ; htovily. j ■ -• * JJ l ' Sporting. I The following are the acceptances for the Takapnna Birthday Handicap —M«|rX' liny irishwoman, Maori, Lonehand, Kalp, Cadet. Steeplechase ' ‘ Chandler, Christmas, TiU- •*'. many Tatters, Hawthorne. ! " iv.i . : The Commission. i f \, LI . ’ WasTPoar, To-day.i .The Bailway Commission arrived heke : last night,.and visited, the harbor works, coalmines, etc., to-day. They take evidence ait 8 o’clock to-night, and leave for Jtoafton .to-morrow morning. MlllAccident. Ddssbin, To-day. l _ A lad named Charles Strachan had his r- 1 left hand out off at R. Guthrie and Ooi.’s timber factory this morning. He was engaged inoilragthe planing machine, and happening l to slip, his hand got caught !ih. -..it.- —•- . i The Wild Deer Passengers. ! A.aubscription list has been opened tor , the Wild'JDoer passengers. The funeral 6f the late Fireman Chosaon ~' ,wOl takeplaoe at.Timar u to- morrow. The deceased" was A'jfiember of the 0 Battery N.Z. Artillery and Band, and also a mens- * ber of, the Timaru Fire Brigade! y_ v IThieconcert in aid of.the Catholic School '-iir AsHburtbn takes place at the Town Ball i.jj on .Monday evening next, The children ,y.themselves' are to.be the principal ppr.'Two important decisions affecting the • I ~ ; mercantile commuoity were delivered: in Chamber.-, at Wellington, yesterday - morping by his Honor Mr Justice Eidh- >■- 'Wond: 'The first, .was-an ae ion brought . WTMfeakrs Qriffin and Co., of LondonJtb . *:fettrthr Mr, J. Guilford, of tbis city, from ’ ll J ‘'fraudulently imitating their labels; ' Mr -Brown appeared for plaintiff, and Mr Travers for-the defendant. His Honor ~ that it was not necessary to entitle: to an injunction that bis label -i ..Should be registered nnder the Trades it.Msirks Act, 1866. His Honor considered &r. -ithat defendant’s label was a fraudulent imitation of the plaintiff’s label, and granted an injunction against the use of ' .such label till judgment or further order. ' "’/'Tbe .second was in the <ftse of Wise and ' otljera(thei' well-known' booksellers lin ' J t v.‘ Wright Mr Brown, on be- |. of,tho plaintiffs, moved for an interim injunction. His Honor held . that tne copyright law regarding the publication of ;..beok»~fint_made in New Zealand lira# governed by the New Zealand Copyright .. ■ „ Ordinance of 1842, and the English Oopy- - right - Act did not apply to such publication. An injunction was granted, re- ' strioting Mr Wright from selling his book, Wiled ** Wright’s Australian and A meri- ' oan Commercial Directory and Gazette.” ~' u . Mr Brandon gave notice on behalf of the ‘ defendants of his intention to appeal. ,