BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Evening Star, Issue 4085, 30 March 1876, Page 3

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Wellington, March 29. • A joint deputation of members of the City Council and Chamber of Commerce waited on the Premier -with a view to obtaining increased wharf accommodation. The Mayor, who was spokesman, said they wanted about ten or twelve thousand pounds. Had they power to borrow, they could obtain money immediately. Sir J. Vogel said that the Government had no money to spend on such an undertaking at present; that if they gave away in one case they would be expected to do so in every other; and that just now there were enormous demands for harbor works in many parts of the Colony. He suggested that the management of the harbor should be taken from the Corporation and placed in the hands of a Harbor Trust.

March 30. It is understood that Parliament will meet before the end of May. A deputation from Greymouth waited upon the Government re harbor works yesterday, and received an assurance that the Government recognised the continuation of the Brunner railway and harbor works connected therewith as colonial works, and that next session they would ask Parliament for the necessary funds to carry out the original plans.

Christchurch, March 30. The Acclimatisation Society hero, have telegraphed to the Superintendent of Otago, asking him to spare them a portion of the salmon ova expected per Arawarta, transhipped from the Durham.

A good many men have left Lyttelton in various vessels to proceed to the Palmer diggings. The late favorable accounts from there nave had a great effect on many. Twenty more left in the Inverene for New castle, intending to work their way to the diggings from that place.

Timaru, March 29. limaru was lit with gas last night for the first time. The gas is excellent in quality. -The Herald states the Provincial Government are getting out estimates for the.Timaru breakwater.

The Borough Council has petitioned the Government to establish quarterly sessions of the Supreme Court, to increase the jurisdiction of the Resident Magistrate’s Court to LIOO, and to abolish the District Court.

__ _ . Napier, March 30. Ihe Governor is expected here at four this afternoon. Addresses will be presented by the Corporation and Foresters. An undress levee will be held on Friday morning and a ball in the evening. The Club will give a dinner, on Saturday probably.

(From our own Correspondents.) n Napier, March 29. ~ ,-*• h fi Governor arrived at Tarawera at four this afternoon. He leaves to-morrow for Napier.

A case of perjury against a policeman occupied the Court aU day. The evidence on which the action is founded caused the Licensing Commissioners to cancel the license of the Commercial Hotel, and was looked on here as a case of police prosecution, and consequently the action for perjury excited much interest. The evidence taken was of a nxost lively character, but the case was eventually dismissed. • . Wellington, March 29. A cunous case of the tables being turned occurred in the Resident Magistrate’s Court this morning. A man named M‘Garthy was charged by a, constable with drunkenness, with disorderly conduct, and with resisting the police. He denied the charge, but the constable swore to a very complete case agamst the prisoner, with whom it appeared it was likely to go hardly, when an independent witness came forward and deposed to a very different state of affairs. He stated that the prisoner only resisted the brutality of the constable, who appeared to be under “flueuce ,°. f * i( l uor and seized M Carthy by his throat and shook him, dragged him about by the hair of bis head, kicked him violently on the legs, and finally threw him heavily, got on the top of him. and beat his head on the stones of the road. Other evidence to the same effect was available, but not called, and the Bench at once dismissed M‘Carthy, the constable (Henry Sounds) taking M‘Carthy’s place in the dock. It then turned out that Sounds was a recent addition to the force, and had been ordered off duty about three hours later in the evening for intoxication. The Bench sentenced the constable to a month’s imprisonment with hard labor. But for the chance presence of a witness M‘Carthy probably would have received a similar sentence on the testimony of this constable. ... Lawrence, March 30. Large slips of rock and earth continue to fall at the Round Hill tunnel, on the Tuapeka Railway, the contractors doing all possible to push the work forward. The other contracts are progressing towards completion.