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New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4452, 26 June 1875, Page 2

We are compelled to hold over a leading article and several letters. The Chief Justice loft in the Wellington yesterday, to preside at the circuit sitting of the Supreme Court, at Picton. His Honor the Chief Justice held a short sitting in Banco yesterday morning, and gave judgment in Walker (appellant) v. the Greytown Local Board (respondent). The decision was to tire effect that the plaintiff (i.c. the Board) was not entitled to judgment in the Resident Magistrate's Court. The decision of the Resident Magistrate’s Court was therefore reversed with costs. In Oakes v. Strachan, Mr. Travers obtained a rule nisi to set aside an order of the Court granting leave to enter up judgment for the plaintiff. The rule was granted on the ground that the application for the oi'der was premature, according to the ordinary practice of the profession in Wellington, regulating the time for pleading after amendment of the declaration, pursuant to notice under rule 107 ; secondly, that the copy of the declaration filed in support of the application for the said order was not a true copy of the declaration as served' upon the defendant and amended pursuant to notice by the defendant. It was ordered, therefore, that proceedings should be stayed, and the rule made returnable in July after the sitting of the Circuit Court.

Captain Johnson has returned from his visit to the proposed site of the lighthouse to be erected on the north head of the entrance to Tory Channel. To decide the site of the first lighthouse presented no difficulty whatever, but as two lights are to be placed on the headland to facilitate the navigation of vessels through the Channel at night time, to determine the position of the second light was not so easy a matter. The strength and direction of the current varies very much at the entrance. The object therefore is to place the two lights in line, and at such points as are likely to ensure a minimum of dansrer, by making allowance for strength of tide-set, &c. Like doctors, mariners differ sometimes, and it has been deemed expedient .for the present to erect beacons on the headland, so that practical opinions may be obtained from captains of vessels which pass through the channel frequently. The beacons have already been placed and tested by Captain Johnson, but the lighthouse will not be erected until concurrent opinion agrees as to the position to be adopted. The announcement of the arrival of the barque Adamant will allay the uneasiness felt on account of that vessel. She left here on the 11th January, and has therefore made an extremely long passage of about 150 days. The football match, which owing to the bad state of the weather last Saturday was postponed, will come off to-day, and as it will be the last match before the Interproviucial contest, Wellington v. Nelson, we hope to-day the weather will be more propitious. The following are the players : —Civil Service —Palliser, Park, James, Worry (captain), Webb, Sheppard, Bate, Campbell, Stohr, Eyton, Knapp, Potter, Lynch, Russell, Hickson, Kirk, Turner, Beveridge, Gibbs, Churton. Town—Thompson, Magil, C. McLean, R. McLean, Hedley, McKay, J. Bishop, A. Bishop, G. Bishop, .Porter, Campbell, Barraud, Mackay, laherwood (captain) France, Salmon, Morris, Banks, Brown, Hillsden, Lightband. There was a large and fashionable attendance at the Theatre Royal last night, when Miss Florence Colville took her benefit and appeared to great advantage as Peg .Woffington, To-night “The Pilot” and “High Life Below Stairs” will be played, Miss Colville making her last appearance for some time. We notice that the company has been strengthened by the accession of Mr. and Mrs. Douglas, both favorites with Dunedin audiences. Mr, and Mrs. George Darrell open at the Theatre Royal on Monday night, when they appear in “As You Like It,” supported by a cast of characters really unexampled in this colony. Mrs. Darrell’s talents are too well known to need expatiating on, and Mr. Darrell has for some years past been gaining laurels before audiences in the great cities of America and Australia. Dr. Carr had a good audience at the Odd Fellows’ Hall last night, and will give another seance in the same place to-night. Mary Ann Smith and Elizabeth Griggs, two vagrants, were at the R.M. Court yesterday sentenced to a month’s imprisonment ; and J. K. Grant, charged with assaulting his wife, was remanded till Monday. ■ In a recent issue of the Lyttelton Times we find most favorable mention made of the enterprise shown by our local firm, Thompson, Shannon, and Co., of Wellington, in the handsome building they are now erecting on the reclaimed ground, of. which our contemporary has seen a photograph. Another evidence of the progress of the Patea district (says the local journal) has just been exhibited in the erection of a steam sawmill by Mr.- Wilson, whoso enterprise was lately visible to the people of Wanganui in the purchase of a steam engine and thrashing machine,' which were lauded there in transitu for Patea. Mr. Wh son is. the kind of settler to make any district prosperous in which he settles. We trust his enterprise will be handsomely rewarded. The prospects are highly encouraging, a ■ block of land containing the best kinds of sawing timber having been secured at Ketemarae, where the mill has been erected. We liavo been reforested to call attention to Mr. James Smith's sale of furniture at his mart to-day.