LATE TELEGRAMS.

Kumara Times, Issue 694, 18 December 1878, Page 4

LATE TELEGRAMS.

fpRESS AGENCY.] Wellington, December 14. Barton has replied to the letter of the Secretary, He reiterates all bis charges against the Chief Justice and Justice Richmond. In support of the charge that the Judges corruptly favored his opponents, he cites the cases of Wellington Corporation v. Sehulze, Gillon ▼. McDonald, Peters v. •Joseph, and Pole v. Tonks. He accuses the Chief Justice in the case of Pole v. Tonks, of causing such hindrances to Pole as enabled Tonks to make away with the property, and causing the successful plaintiff (Pole) to become a bankrupt Barton adds—" I charge that the Chief Justice so acted with the object of depriving Pole of the fruits of his verdict, and the same justice afterwards upheld a fradulent deed of Tonk's contrary to such clear principles of law that I cannot but believe he was actuated by corrupt motives." Barton says the conduct of Justice Richmond throughout that trial, and afterwards on the motion to set aside the verdict, was such as, in his afforded proof that the Judge was r acting corruptly, aDd not from mere' error of judgement. Bai*ton intimates 1 his readiness to prove all these charges.! . r \, The Wellington bookbinders havestarted a subscription on behalf of. the -seamen's anti-Chinese strike. December 16. In .deference, to the wishes of the ipubfictegslrding the railway station site, arrangements, it is said, will be made bjnfthe' Government for reserving a site Hear Mill's foundry. It is also stated the Government have, intimated to the Mayor they will be prepared to bring down and support fcext session such measures as will make the immigration of Chinese to this Colony practically imppossible. Dtjnedin, December 14. The Government have arranged w 'th Mr Coster, Chairman of the New Zealand. Shipping .Company, that a steamer shall lie, .despatched from London to Uew Zealand during the month of Jfanuaryjtpfcall at the several ports in t!te Colony, and tocarry not less than fjpO, .immigrants, in addition to other jpasgengers. The steamer is expected to ai-rivp before the end of haarvest. Auckland, December 14. The Hon. Juo. Sheehan is expected iterei on Wednesday. Tenders will be issued on Monday fop the reclamation works for the central: railway station, estimated to cost a 820,000, and railway to be extended immediately. A circular from the Minister of Education states that £9260 10s "6d "will -be available for distribution in Auckland country libaries, and .£BOO was sent as rewarded children passing meritorious examination iu schools. The barque King Oscar went ashore at Port .Albert, but got off. No pilot aboard.

• ' ll The ! school teachers hold a picnic and ball before the close of the Christmas holidays.