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Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1612, 19 January 1886, Page 2

The practice of sending letters, &0., , Home by the direct line: .-i« • increasing every month. The Ru&petfuV which sailed the obiter night, took I3,227Jetterß, 1,217 Book backets, and. 5,181 neWsjpap^er* ;/->i^:^->'-.-i .■: -':;:;- J . The three following cases, all actions for libel from Napier,, are se,t dbwu for hearing m the'Supreine Court Wellington, to mprjrow. Grubb ' ir. ' Epenin^ 'Wevbj, Evenmg'Nett)B vjtWaipawa Mail; Sawkina y. t yFaipawadndGpendent- '■• ■• 1 « > i .The Etocniiig ¥resit-$ Friday', laLt. J ii r responsible I for the following :—" It seems that recenji effgrfs ofjtljej Goyornihent tb lovyec. the status, of the (JommJsson of the Peace in' New Zealand have attracted attention id the neighbouring colonies. ; A Hebrew betting flrm nt Sydiiey who are engaged m getting, up amonrfte? 4 lottery oh the Ple'mqungtQn ch'auipian race, ■ haye ; geut a circqlar to e'yery J. P. \t\ New. Zealand, aasumineyoo doubt,, froinj..; what they . have heard of them, that, tney are' just' the class of jpeople who' aritf ' likely tb go m for that sort of thing, especially since tha laws' of : thi^' coloilv . forbid them doingj their gambling at ho6ie. It is a siirewdidodge, for the^abr^s; not only N invite the New Zealand Magistracy to join m the swindle themselves, but sptrest that they- should 'act c %s\ agents? and victituise the -credulous among; their friends. ;,, lf it were ip'os^ sibi'e to> obtain. it, a return of jthe J-P.'S who send their -El^r iiipre to Sydney m reflponse to! this impudent coihinunication would {be' an interesting docuine rit:" f The assault casst, Frankely., Mulligan was concluded m the Resident Magis-., trate's Court, Wellington on Thursday the defendant being mulcted m £,10 damages and costs/ '' •' , . i Last week's Gazette announces that His Excellency has been pleased to .accept the resignations of the Hon. G. R. Johnson, JM.L.G.. .^nd . , Messrs J. S. Stephenson' and Reader . Gc\ Wood, as jtbe f Feace. A short fitting of the ..Divorce Court (Wellington^, was hsld on Thursday last before jhis Honor the Chief Justice wheniMr Hall, instructed by *Mr • Qeo. Hutchison | of Wanganui, moved that the decree iim'rgranttj'dj at last oirouit sitting of tlie Suprnmo Court, at Warigaiiui^in the case of Caltiocott v. Caldecott [be made absolute. -oThereV being no opposition, his Honor granted [ the application. . ; . ■•. , :