WELLINGTON NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 423, 23 May 1902, Page 3

WELLINGTON NEWS.

SALVAGE CLAIM, (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, last night. It is understood that the Union S.S. Company are lodging a claim for £3OOO salvage against the owners of the barque Gladys. A PRINCELY .SALARY. The Wellington Harbor Board to-day agreed to affix the seal of the Board to a five years’ agreement with the Engineer, Mr Fergusson, foqr £1750 Der. annum, Mr Fisher, M.H.R., alone dissenting, THE ERRING JUSTICES.

To-night’s Gazette states that the Governor has directed that the names •f A. G. Christopher, F. Mallard, and S. G. Smith, all of Dunedin, shall be emoved from the Commission of the Jeace. HORSES FOR SOUTH AFRICA. The steamer Anglo-Canadian arrived to-day from Port Elizabeth. She takes 800 remounts purchased on behalf of the War Office, back to the Cape. 01 that number 400 will be shipped at this port and tiie remainder at Auckland. The steamer has a complement of ninety men aboard, all of whom, with the : .i exception of six, are foreigners. As most of them would cost the owners a sum of £IOO per head if they deserted, the vessel may probably remain in the • tream, the horses being taken out in

smaller steamers. CABLE FROM MAJOR PILCHER. Pilcher, in reply to enquiries, has cabled to the Acting-Premier that Private Onyon, who had been ill with enteric fever, has sailed for Australia ; that Lieutenant Henry Richardson is Captain in charge of D2 squadron of the South Island regiment of the Ninth Contingent; that L. A. Ditely and R.. Hardie, botli of the Seventh Contingent are well, and are with their regiment; Lieut. Lascelles is not so weH. 'AN IMPORTANT CASE,

Dr Macarthur, S.M., was occupied this morning with the case of the Colonial Treasurer against D. M. Douglas, a claim for £B6 15s 3d and interest, and against Hugh Douglas, claim £135 4s 6d and interest. The defendants are Crown tenants at Wainuioru, Wairarapa, and the claim is for promissory notes which have been dishonored. After the disastrous Push fires in 1898, the defendants, at their own request, were granted a sum of money to assist them in cre-sowing their land, and the promissory notes fßfere taken in exchange. They now set up a plea of infancy, and in ansjSpv to that the Department urged that a - ® defendants bought, and minors could ..under the Land Act take up land, they were liable for any contract inc dental to that land.