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Auckland Star, Volume II, Issue 374, 22 March 1871, Page 2

Hia Honor the Chief Justice sat in banco on Tuesday. There was a good deal of business brought before the Court. In the case of the. Hauraki Saw-mill v. Cochrane, judgment was given for the plaintiffs for £175 (calls). The most important case, however, was a motion for a rule to quash the conviction of the Justices in the case of the colliers of thl« Kawakawa mine. Mr. Whitaker appeared for the Justices ; Mr. Rees for the defendants, the colliers. ' It was stated by Mr. Rees that the Justices were anxious to inflict much less punishment; but the men wbulcl not have less than a month, so, as we presume, tp enable them to come before the higher court. Mr. Rees contended that the. powers contended for by the other side were enormous. The learned counsel contended; that, thfe objections to the conviction ought to have great weight with the Court, for in such cases there was the strongest reason that every qualification, anthorifcy, and description of the information should be fully set out. His Honor, in a very luminous decision, ordered the conviction to be quashed. His Honor's judgment will be found in another column. In the case of Q-ilbert v. Gilbort (demurrer) His Honor deferred judgment. We understand that it is in contemplation to form an engineer corps in this city. Such a corps as this is usually considered "to be one of the most important branches of the Volunteer service, and we have often been surprised that a move in this direction has /not been made long ago. Already some fifty names hare been given in by persons willing to join. We believe..that, the promoters of the movement will wait upon Major Gordon to-day on the subject. The News of the World says :—" The Hon. Julius Vogel, Colonial Treasurer and Postmaster General of : New Zealand, left Sf^n Francisco for Washington on the 13th mat. Through the courtesy of the Central Pacific Railroad Company, a special private bar was appropriated! for his use and that of: his suite."

The following paragrajpre from a later . English paper, and the pns they teach ' . should not be forgotten bPr readers :—Do gas consumers know. the| at dangers they run into by neglecting! examine their chandeliers ? At this &&> when the rooms are kept very warm, ancP £as burnt long hours the water in P tube of the gas chandelier evaporat#ry freely, and if the chandelier is drawnW to light or extinguish, and is not yed fully up again, when the water is low lie tube, an escape of gas will certainly foiled if not detected probably cause an explp- At the top of the tube of every hydiic chandelier there is a cup. Water slioupe poured into the tube until it reaches tPup > the chandelier oa.n then be drawn do^ith safety. A ga* explosion, attended ith disastrous consequences, occurred aferby on January 6. During the day a confial escape of gasjhad been noticed, and in j> evening Mrs. Price had occasion to go ii the parlour with &'*«>»• light in her hand, en a tremendous ety. plosion occurred. B aster, Miss Mellor) immediately ran to ]Wassistance and found her wrapped in flap/ 'which were with""***, difficulty extinguish© Her head, face, and arms, were burnt se^ely, and her recovery is considered doubtf Every door in the room, with the excejon of the one leading into the street, wj literally shattered., to atoms ; the cable tfl of the house was' so much shaken tha^arge gaps and crevices appeared in profuen throughout its entire *}1 length, and the fraework of the parlor win- I dow, with the glasifc contained, was blown into the street, wle the room itself was a perfect mass of dtfis. The cause of the ex- •.:' plosion (which wi heard half a mile dirtarit) ' is to be attributerfio the want of water in the gas, meter. ■■ r *