The Evening Star. FRIDAY, MARCH 17, 1876.

Evening Star, Issue 4074, 17 March 1876, Page 2

The Evening Star. FRIDAY, MARCH 17, 1876.

Owing to the crush of advertisements we are compelled to hold over reports of the Supreme Court, Horticultural Snow, &c. At Timaru Judge Ward gave a Miss Bow 'man L 125, as damages for injuries sustained by her through falling into a sewer in course of construction by the Borough Council. The accident arose through the sewer being unprotected by a fence at night. The fourth of the series of meetings for young men in connection with the Dunedin Young Men’s Christian Association was held in the Temperance Hall last evening. The attendance was very small. Captain tnomson presided, and the meeting was addressed by Professor Salmond, Rev, J, Kirkland, and Mr Bone, of Adelaide. The last of the course will be held this evening in the rooms

of ociation, Princes street, when the Lin dsay Mackie and Mr George R. deroiis r .*’ill gtve addresses. It may be mentioned that Professor Salmond is to apeak at the -Tneatre sex-vice on Sabbath week, when hxs address will be specially addressed to young- anen.

At the Resident Magistrate’s Com-t this morning the only cases heard were those in which the' defendants did 'not- appear Judgment was given for plaintiffs by default m the folio wing Gall v. Stables, claim L 5 14s 3d, for meat supplied; Haynes v. Stevexis, K)s for goods supplied. His Worsjxip gave judgment in Caversham Road Board y. Maloney, a claim of L 7 for rates, for plaintiffs for the amount claimed; and in same v. Thomas, LI 18s 6d, a like decision. A novel proposition was made during the hearing of a civil , case at Tokomairiro yesterday. - In Davis v, Jones, t a dispute arose as to the number of pipes on defendant’s ground, when (according to the ‘Herald’) it was .suggested by the plaintiff that the pipes should be counted, and if their number was greater than he stated, the Magistrate should send him to gaol for three months; if- on the contrary he Was right in his statement, the defendant should go to prison, Mr Maitland explained that he comd not adopt the suggestion.

We cannot compliment the Press Agency upon their prdcis of the Premier’s speech at Wanganui last night. We know too well the difficulties of reporting. Sir Julius Vogel, but, making every allowance for them, we expected a more intelligible’reaumd than the one we received. (Ve feel convinced -that the official report of the Premier’s speech will be vastly different from that supplied by. the Agency, which bristles with incomprehensible sentences, none of which could have been uttered by Sir J. Vogel. We have tried our best to make sense' of the numerously foggy parts of the message, but had to do so by serious curtailment in some instances.