WELLINGTON NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 892, 15 May 1903, Page 2

WELLINGTON NEWS.

.THE 'ARIADNE WRECK

(Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, last, night

Evidence was t aken in Well mg! on to-day on (lie Commission for the. King’s Bench Division High Court of ■ lustiee in Hie ease Kerry v. Underwriters at. Lloyds’, claim for insurances on I,lie. yacht, Ariadne, which was wrecked under sensational circumstances near Oaniaru a couple of years ago. :

DAIRY INDUSTRY

Mr .1. A. Kinsella, late Dairy by the Mayor on behalf of the dairyUonimiscjoiier, was to-day presented mg section ami Produce Exporters’ Association with an illuminated address, prior to his departure for Die Transvaal. .Speaking at a. dinner given to him at.night Air Kinsella -said that he had not. received the support, Dial lie was entitled to. Other countries were combining scientific investigation with practical work of instruction in dairying. .So far as he could see, .New Zealand was no further ahead ;ti scientd’e work than on Hie day the first expert came to the country.

NEWTOWN POL)

At the iS.M. Court, to-day Ernes I, .Siin.vm brought a claim for £36 against T. G. .McCarthy, brewer, (). MeCardle, secretary, and W. Corby and F. .Smith, publicans, J’fainl ill alleged that he had been .employed by defendants to do certain work in connection with the enquiry into the validity of the Newtown local option poll,- and in addition to a weekly sum lm was to he. paid a bonus of 'C.'lll if the poll was declared void, The defence was a repudiation of any such agreement. At the suggestion of the S.M., the ease was adjourned to permit an arrangement being come to between the parties.