SOUTHERN TELEGRAMS.

Thames Advertiser, Volume VII, Issue 1804, 4 May 1874, Page 3

SOUTHERN TELEGRAMS.

(Pep Anglo-Australian Pres3 Telegraph Agency,) ; .— — ; —*— ■ • _.->..: Wemington, Saturday! | Ml important shipping ruling has been given in the Magistrate's Court re the New Zealand Steam Shipping Company against the barque 'Serene.' Mr Travers contended that the captain" and owners of the ship could not be sued jointly for short delivery. The Bench sustained this view, and the plaintiff was nonsuited with costs.—The tender for the third section of the Mastorton railway, .fire miles, was accepted from' Mr Mc'Kirdy, of Welling, ton, at a price of £19,138. The work in - eludes two. bridges.-The meeting of Parliament for despatch of business on the 3rd July is gazetted.-A. semi-official announcement in this morning's paper says Sullivan will react England probably in a few weeks, and justifies the course the Government took in tho matter as usual and proper. If the newspapers had had a jusfcer conception of the merits of the case Sullivan would not have been shut out from proceeding to San Francisco. The authorities there would have been acquainted of his coming and character juat as tho English authorities ara

already. The Government hadadopted this course only after the case had received the highest consideration it was possible to give it in the colony. Dunedin, Saturday. A new Executive has been formed. The names are not' yet announced.—Dr; .Webster,' the Mayor of Dunedin for several years, has declined' to' cO'me forward at the approaching .election.