WELLINGTON NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 898, 22 May 1903, Page 3

WELLINGTON NEWS.

By Telegraph—Press Association—

Wellington, lust night. A, block of lund on Lumbton Quay adjoining the Union Bank was sold to day for C2TU per foot. A the Suprcuio Court to-day the hearino ' v.'tis concluded of tho case Corby v. j\[ae“.rthy, claim .CIOUU damages for breach of "covenant in connection with the robuilding of an hotel at Newtown. The jury awarded the plaintiff .£l5O damages for"loss of premise* and Toll for loss of profits and inconvenience. Counsel for defendant will iuovo to have the judgment sot asidu on the ground that the amount awarded under the second head was against the evidence. Mr " ter Grant, chief engineer of the Ciitanekai, has been appointed au inopotitor oi inachincry. ‘ liai-.so sparrow, yellowliammer, and groar.l'mch have been proclaimed injurious bird-;', under the birds nuisance of 1902. Th'i South Island has been divided into eight separate districts in order to ensure concerted action for the destruction of the pcsi. ’ Tiro Supi rintendent of the Municipal

I‘irc Brigade, in a report covering twelve months' Vo king, states that the total loss tfi the city by tiro during tho yoar was (£80.020. " The Superintendent remarks : n.Tho fire which took place in tho Colney Jlatch lunatic asylum in January serves td’brhig homo exactly a similar terrible catastrophe to which wo may be subject in Wellington Mount View Asylum. Ever since my arrival here I haro dreaded the

consequences of aide taking place at that -institution.” The onperintendent goes on 'to say that Government has not been nog * lectful, and their officers have taken every '-'precaution possible in the buddings as '•-they exist, extra escapes have been pro- * vided.-and now and largo appliances pro- ' vided. He says that nothing short of rebnildiim the institution m brick or stone win gi" e any degree of safety to the lives of the inmates.