WELLINGTON.

Manawatu Times, Volume II, Issue 67, 9 June 1877, Page 2

WELLINGTON.

Monday. At A meeting of the creditors of James' O'Shea this afternoon, .debts amounting to £7,000 were proved. Captain George Thomas was appointed trustee, and is to be paid 2| per cent. Messrs. Krully Mclntyre, and Port were appointed supervisors to assist the trustee m

winding up the estate . It is stated that the. estate/ is likely to realise- ten shillings m tiie pound. . , ..■■. •"■■; ; Wednesday. " The rainfall returns for '.the colony foi>the month of May show the fall to have been — m Auckland* 6*630 inches m 23 days ; Wellington, 9580 inches m, 28 days ; Nelson, 15" 2 10 inches ml 5 days; Christchurch,. 3-480 inches m 17, days ; and Dunedin, 7:088 inches ml 5 days. J ; -' ■..■"•■ l ■ : ; - : .-'.■■•■ ■■;'■'■ ; The Zealandia, with the London mails of May 3, left Frisco for Honolulu and .Auckland on May. 23j and is, due at Auckland on the 15th ;inst. ; ,~ The i City of SjrdneyV with the.New Zealand/ mails of May 9j arrivied at Frisco on the 30th \\\t. . . At the annual ' Licensing ! Court, the application for a new house, Duff's Hotel, was refused ; WKitehouse Hotel renewal refused ; Waterloo Hotel, refused; new hotel *at Itarori, refused. The rest were, all granted. . ' . Friday. , . Sailed— Napier for Foxton at . 2:30 p.m. Passengers— -Mrs' Litchwark ' and lour children; Mrs, Walton and child, Mrs Davis . • '•■ Messrs Davis, Jackson, ©ve'rfcon, and Austee;, -Rev. Father Moreau, and the Bernard Company (5) . It is gazetted that m the presenting of telegrams marked "urgent," by paying doub^pites, they will have priority of tranHpion over all others on and after Ist -July. _A fatal accident occured at the Hutt this morning, by which a setfler named Johnson, formerly a* soldier in -the 99th and 65th regiments, was killed.' He was driving a horse and cart on the road near Behnonfe and by , some means. they got over the edge of. a steep bank and rolled toHhe- bottom 6i. the; gully*. /The man was picked up dead from under the cart. ' '. • " : ;.' - : : ' '.;~: r h/_; :/ -\ - : - ; .'.