LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Kumara Times, Issue 764, 12 March 1879, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

[NEW ZEALAND PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

Pvkefton, March 11

In the District Court to-day, a laboring man in an action for £129, for a road contract, was nonsuited, the evidence disclosing partnership between himself and defendants—storekeepers and substantial men—and also showing that equity proceedings for partnership accounts should have been substituted. Judge Weston said, with much earnestness—" It was a monsterous shame that in this Colony, with all our Courts, people should be unable to avenge their wrongs. The Supreme Court is beyond ordinary people. The procedure is slow and costly, the sittings are few on the West Coast—but twice a year—and he could not understand why the District Judge, having unlimited powers when sitting uuder the Mining Companies and Bankruptcy Act as a Criminal Judge, having powers to pass long sentences, should have no jurisdiction in cases of partnership and other equity suits of greateror less magnitude. The costs in the District Court were small, and here the sittings were monthly." He concluded by saying that hev turned plaintiff away, and would practically leave him without redress ; and there, were many similar cases. Criiiness and Pitt, solicit >r«, concurred in the Judge's remarks, and wished they would bear fruit. Auckland, March 11. Charles Meagle was killed while crosscutting at Whangapau Thomas Condon, his mate, was seriously injured. The accepted tender for the new Grammar school was W. Connellys, £5838, the highest being Shailer's. £7B-11. The police are making a raid on milk venders. A fouith telegraphic wire is bein" put uj) beUeeu Auckland and Wellington. Goldie's election expences, £105; DU-nan's, £260. Hopciaft. editor of the Thames Star is dead, congestion of the brain being the cause, lie served in the Waikato campaign as lieutenant of the 3rd Waikato Militia. Samuel Noble, Kaipara, carpenter, hung himself in his house last night. Cause unknown. Twentv-oue voung men have petitioned the Premier that evening classes may be established in connection with the Auckland OranimMr School. Dunedin, March 11. A grocery store belonging to Thomas Home, and a draper's shop adjoining, at Kaikoiia, were burned to the ground early this morning. The occupiers were asleep and were wakened by the screaming of a young ehiid just in time to save their lives. Stuck, furniture and building were destroyed. Mooney and" Qninn's office, and Furtresons premises, at Tapanui, were destroyed by Hre early this morning. But for the energy 0 f the people, half theiownship would have been destroyed. Fmgeson is insured for £2OOO on stock and £6OO on building. Mooney £SO in Union ; small risk in Victoria. Fire still burning, but no danger of it spreading. A young man named Moon, coal carter, has lienn arrested and commited for trial for r.pe on the daughter of Sergeant Major Bevan, aged seven years.

NEW ZEALAND RIFLE ASSOCIATION MEETING. March 11. Match No. 1N.—200, 400, and 500 yards. P.izes presented by S'oke Rifle Coinpiny. First £5, s. cond .£4, tliiid .£3, two of £2, and sixteen of£l. Tola!, £32 Oakey, Taranaki ... ... ... 77 Turner, Nelson 77 Purnell, Wanganui 76 M'Carthy, Thames 74

Kellar, Nelson ... ... 73 Coventry, Dunedin ... 73 Jack, Dunedin... ... 73 Willocks, Clutha ... . 73 Downie, Thames ... ... ... 72 Griffiths, Nelson ... 72 Marshall (?) „ 72 M'lntosh, Wellington ... ... 72 Hutchinson, Dunedin 72 Rogers, Blenheim ... ... ... 72 Smith, Dunedin ... 71 Ross, Napier ... 71 Hunter, Thames ... ... ... 71 Waugh, Dunedin ... 71 A. Ballinger, Wellington 71 Kennedy, Dunedin 71 W. Ballinger, Wellington (champion) 71