LATEST TELEGRAPHIC.

Manawatu Herald, Volume I, Issue 42, 21 January 1879, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAPHIC.

• — . + (PEB PBESS AOENOY.Jj r Wellington, Monday, 7 p m. Judgment for £10 and -tosta was given this afternoon in two cases for damages against the Tramway Qo. The ships Hudson and Warwick sailed from Plymouth on thei 21st and 30th November last, with immigrants ; the fortftftigith 207 for Welling ton, and 39 for Napier; thß lat- .$ ter with over 200 for varions places, being nearly all nominated. Edgar Bastings, oh a charge of alleged forgery, was remanded- to Chiistohurch. ■ ._ Tho Royal Commission on Educa- v . tion held a meeting to -day, and received several reports from the University Committee and Technological Committee ; the- teporfc* were adopted, and the Commission decided to request the Chancellor and Seoretary of iho New - Zealand University to give evidence before the Commie-* sion on the first of February. The Jackson's Bay Commission will proceed to tho AVest Coast by the Government steamer Stella on. the first of February. The Underwriters' Association report, under date of London, 17th January, the arrival of the Chasca from Wellington, the Waiiaate from Lyttelton, and tho Arkshaw from Oamaru. Mr G. Is. Barton, -Editor of the New Zealand Jurist, is appointed assistant Law t flieer of the Crown in place of Edward Stafford, who has gone into business. Chbistohuboh, Monday, 6 p.m. Mr Moore, who recently arrived from AVellington (where he edited the New Zealander) to edit the Globe, died this morning, from rheumatic fever. He had" been ill about three weeks. — — mm**mm —————— —^^^^^^^