BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH

Evening Star, Issue 3827, 31 May 1875, Page 3

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH

. . Wellington, May 29. Owing to continued illness in the family of Mr Justice Williams, Mr Justice Johnston will hold the next sitting of the Supreme Court at Dunedin, and Mr Chapman (by special commission) will hold a session of the Supreme Court at Invercargill.

- . . _ , Auckland, May 29. kvaptain Casey has sent a lawyer’s letter to *be Star, demanding LSO and an apology for publishing an account of the passage of the steamer Gemini, under the heading “Dangerous Voyage of the Steamer Gemini—Nearly Lost.” The ‘ Star ’ replies, declining to retract or to ? a y '* You will, therefore, be so good as to proceed with the action alluded to with as much expedition as may be convenient to your client.’ The prorogation speech was merely formal. The Superintendent said had transmittted, for the information of the Governor, resolutions passed with regard to proposed constitutional changes, which would abrogate an Act of Parliament passed in 1852, for the purpose of granting a representative government to the Colony of New Zealand. , “ r Vesey Stewart writes to the Cross:— i®, k ave at present forty-seven families for the block. About thirty -two families will accompany me, and twelve more follow in Septemben, I had the pleasure of meeting the Hon. Mr Vogel m London, and he received me most cordially, and, I am happy to state, has fully and honorably carried out uvith me all the provisions of the agreement entered upon between the Hon. Mr O’Rorke an-d myself. We start from Belfast in two ships. The first will contain my family and special settlers, and S?™* P , hundre d single girls under Mrs Stewarts charge. The second will follow in three or four days, and will contain specially well -selected farm servants and agricultural famihes of a most superior class. In fact, some of them will be almost equal to special settlers. Dr heatherstonand the Hon. Mr Vogel both londly consented to come to Belfast to see us ~ . Christchurch, May SI. .Recently two prominent members of the typographical society, first-class compositors and steady men, were suddenly dismissed from employment on one of the morning papers, and the society, on application, failed to obtain the reasons fer this from, the • employers; while

somO' society men employed on ihe other morning paper were told that they must resign from the society or leave their employment, and they elected to do the former. A meeting of the society was held on Saturday night to discuss the whole matter, when it was decided to voteL3o to the two men who l ad been dismissed from their employment, aid divide the remainder of the funds, pro rata, among the rest of the members, and then dissolve the society. At one time a strike appeared imminent. A match is on the tapis between Young Delaney, of Auckland, and S. Collins, of Dun edin, to run three races at 100, 150, and 200 yards, for L 25 a-side. (From our own Correspond nl.) Auckland, May29T In the Police Court to-day, Charles Pardon, recently from Christchurch, was charged with drunkenness. His Worship: “ What are you?” Prisoner : “lam a solicitor on the roll of New Zealand.” His Worship expressed his surprise, and as this was prisoners third offence, he was sent to gaol for seven days. An extraordinary revelation has been made in connection with the purchasing of the electoral roll for the notorious Waitemata district contest twice, by Mr Vonjder Heyde and Mr J. R. Maofarlane. A piece of land at Riverhead had been divided into allotments by an agent of the latter, and sections given to his employes, and a very miscellaneous collection of people, on which application was made to vote. All these were objected to, but the man who objected, had, it is alleged, been paid by Macfarlane’s agent to sign an order withdrawing his objection, and Kept out of the way. The revising officer, on the representation of counsel, refused to permit the withdrawal, and 160 claims to vote were struck off, costs being allowed in the case of eighty. Such a wholesale attempt to corrupt an electoral roll was never before disclosed in New Zealand.