TELEGRAPHIC.

Globe, Volume IX, Issue 1347, 8 June 1878, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

INTBRPROYINOIAL. [PBB PBEB3 AGENCY.] Wellington, June 8. The “ New Zealander” announces that Mr Thomas Austey Mansford has been appointed District Judge for the Wellington and Wairarapa district, and will probably assume his new duties in about a month. Yesterday tenders were signed for the following contracts : Extension of railway, from Kai Iwi to Witotara, twelve miles ; and the port extension of the Nelson and Foxhill railway. Dunedin, June 8. Messrs 0. S. Reeves and R. Oliver are mentioned as probable candidates for the representation of Dunedin in the place of Mr Larnach. Mr Stout will probably address his constituents in a few days. The contest between the [Education Board and the School Committee is about to be brought to a crisis by the latter inviting applications for a vacancy in one of the Dunedin district schools. David Millar, who 'was recently fined 20s and costs for assault, has forwarded a complaint to the Minister of Justice against Mr J. N. Watt, R.M., who was the presiding magistrate on the occasion referred to. The basis of Mr Millar’s complaint is that a few weeks previously Mr Watt, in a case where a much more flagrant breach of the peace occurred, inflicted only a penalty of Is and ordered the plaintiff to pay his own costs.