LATE ITEMS.

Evening Star, Issue 3867, 16 July 1875, Page 3

LATE ITEMS.

We understand that the day lal'-'uvr- on the Port Chalmers section of the Moeraki Hallway, who got a verdict against the contractor at the Resident Magistrate's Court, Port CLalniers, will be paid by the General Government on the arrival of the next mail from the North. As Captain Russell, of the schooner Cera, was endeavoring to push his vessel < if Loin the lighter . Edinburgh, this afternoon - both vessels lying alongside th l Jetty street Wharf---ho lost hisbalar.ee and fell overboard. Knuckinu' against the lighter's anchor he received severd internal injuries, but we were unable f.<« ascertain their nature before going to pr> ■■m. Wo understand that the volunteers in Otago have petitioned, through the Militia Office, for the reduction of the charge upon the Snider ammunition to the lowest pos'iblu scale, in order that the price may not juove a serious check upon rifle practice. In England rmmunition is supplied to the volunteers at 0s Sd per 100 rounds, while here the is 10* tid.

A number of cases we)e heard at the Resident Magistrate's Court to-dav. In nine case: judgment went by default. The defendant did not appear in Gregg and Co. v. J. M'Neil Simpson, a fraud summons, and an order was granted for the payment of the amount within a week, in default thirty daya' imprisonment. In M'Lauchlen v. M'Gill—a ca-«e in which judgment was reserved—a claim for LlO IDs, his Honor gave judgment for plaintiff for Ll 15a 6J.