TELEPHONE SPECIALS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 302, 5 December 1884, Page 2

TELEPHONE SPECIALS.

Wellington News. [Own Correspondent.] Wellington, December 5. The regulations for the formation of special settlements were gazetted last night. The committee of the Industrial Exhibition was also gazetted to the number of one hundred. The Sheriff of the Supreme Court went yesterday to the Porirua district, and arrested three men and their sureties in respect of fines inflicted for illicit distillation of whisky. The conviction took place some two years ago, but defendants appealed, and were released on sureties. The Court of Appeal upheld the conviction, but the fines were not paid, hence the arrest by the sheriff. The principals, and amounts of the fines, with costs, are:—George Taylor, £267; William Thompson, £127; Thomas Morgan, £123. The sureties are John Morgan, George Morgan, William Taylor, Frank Lewis, George Thompson, and Henry Thompson, all of whom have been lodged in gaol, where they will remain until the fines are paid. The contract for the conveyance of mails to Great Britain by the direct steamers is for five years. The contract time is 42 days on the trip home, and 45 days outward. The adjustment of the difficulty as to the despatch of letters alternately by the ’Frisco boats and the direct steamers does not relieve letters via Brindisi from the additional charge sanctioned last session. Nominations for the Government Insurance Association Board are fixed for the 20th inst., and the election shortly after new year.