WELLINGTON.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3561, 7 December 1882, Page 3

WELLINGTON.

December 7

Aα excellent observation of the transit of Venus was obtained here this morning. The weather was fine and clear, with a cloudless sky. The Hon. Mr Rolleston and the Undersecretary for Mines visited the Terawhiti goldfields yesterday, and inspected several of the claims. Mr Solleston expressed himself highly pleased at the appearance of the mines and the samples of stone which were taken out.

The illicit distillation cases were concluded in the Resident Magistrate's Court last evening. W. Thompson and T. Morgan, who were arrested in town with forty gallons of whisky in their possession, were each find £100, or in default three months' imprisonment G Taylor, upon whose farm at Fahautarjui the still was discovered, was mulcted in a fine of £200 or six months' imprisonment. The charge against T. Taylor, a part owner of the farm, was withdrawn. At the Court of Appeal, their Honors the Chief Justice and Mr Justice Gillies, in the case of Connor v. Mackay (Dunedin), judgment was delivered, in which Mr Justice Williams concurred, affirming the decision of the Court below and dismissing the present appeal with costs. In Connor v. Mackay (second case) the order was varied and no costs of appeal were allowed. In Hurrey v. the Bank of New South Wales (Gisborne), the Court ordered a verdict to be entered for the plaintiff for the value of the goods as found by the jury (£Bl6 6s 8d), each party to bear his own costs of the rule, and the costs of the action to be apportioned.

Application was made to Mr Justice Richmond in Chambers yesterday by H. D. Bell, counsel for defendaat, for the appointment of a commission to take the evidence of the British Consul at Samoa in the case of J. J. Hunt v. Sir Arthur Gordon. Mr Edward Shaw appeared for the plaintiff, and opposed the granting of the application. After argument on both sides, his Honor agreed to tbe appointment of a commission on condition that Mr Shaw was allowed liberty of reviewing the order made by producing supplementary evidence.