The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. MONDAY, JUNE 1, 1874.

Thames Star, Volume III, Issue 1688, 1 June 1874, Page 2

The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. MONDAY, JUNE 1, 1874.

WsiitiV* to acknowledge receipt from Mr X. Cook, postmastwr, of|the Time Table of amand departure of European mails by Suez;. #nd 8»n Francisco.

Alt offlcisl enquiry under the Eaquiry into Wreck* Act. 1860, with respect to serious material damager* in the gate of yesterday, Will bj held by the Collector ef Customs at -his ofllee on Wednesday, at 11 a.m. The powers Tested in the Collector of Custom?, are. rery stringent, the panalty of refusing to attend bis summons being £20 or imprisonme«t *

-- Ik the Besideat Magistrate's Court .this ..morning a young psfte (»id to be aslaye) "wa« brought up on two charges of horße stealing and committed for trial. Ho* was 1; also charged with stealing a saddle and s«ntenoed to three months' imprisonment. The eridefl^e in support o/ one of the charges of .horse stealing was published by us on Saturley.' Owing to -a plethora of otberrm.atter we are aompelled. to omit' the report o e proceedings in the Bwident Magistrate's Court to-day. "■"■;" " ■ !

Ox Thursday, the 7ih May, Mr Goiirkj brought an actijn in the Kesident Magistrate> Court»t .Wellioeton against the New Zealand Steam Shipping Company, to recover £50 for damaged done to certain wax iigureijl by •ar«less carrying on .board., defendani'i •Uaihsr Bangatira, from Uapier to ton. Plaintiff, (we quote from the Independ•Bt).Who baa for some time been in the habit •f exhibiting and removing from- place to plaeal'tasi figures in question, depo*ed that they were securely packed in the u*u«l ? ?liajMtf*»^andr'- Bad j sever before been irjured in trarelling. The heads of Sbakespearej and Joseph tiie carp nrtr^is well ai their hands, ware broken, and about twenty efcher celelirsiei iadividuali had sustained n aim or If ss damage. In cross-examination, plaintiff admitted that he. saw two pases fall off the i vdray whioh was 1 conTeying them from- the steamer, '^ but; these, did; not contain wax figure*. Charier. 11. and Garibaldi were slightly damaged before they started. The j 'defence wis that the goods were treated with - even more than usual care during their transit, j '^and'viny damage they sustained cou|d not hat* ooeurred while they were i:» d«fead»nis'

cvutody. Th« hiaring of the cau occupied - ntwrly thr«« h»iir§, »nd roulted in a verdict for tlyi d«f«ndintf. . _ ...„, . „.,. i I J >« tl«-Aii»BiKC» COMPANIM ACT, 1873." —W« »n» requested ta call atUntion to ttie »direiti««|i»jiat« ttti^fc Appear id another pa) I of fchii pap«r, on the subjeofc of th» Begiitration of Policm* of Eife AMuraace inUrmi of !»lMfe-^i; i;'7%^i;et~;nciuiri)i'tii^; all companiei. carrying on. tha butine^s of JLife -5 Aiiteranco in New Zealana^hßtll depbait caih or GoTeramept *«curitiei with the Public - '^*rtiift»to rt^eit6n^lrf:'lEs^)o^ %Kclv^^M |o

be increa ed as the busiaess of the Company goes on until it reaches the sum of £20,000. These sums 1 the Act requires the Public Tiustefto bold fojtrust for Policy, holders, being "such"in' respectof issued in the f Colony, by tha company making such deposits, -whether the policy has been granted before or after the passing of the Act, pnmdinjE that such poliofeVif granUd-before the commence* meat 'of the Act, be legislered witkin twelve months from such comaiencsjaient (November 1, 1873), or if granted after thVpMsing of the' Act, .within s»ix months after the making thereof. It will follow from the above, that holders of policies granted on or after ihe,lst of November last muyt tegis* '" ttr before" the six mouths have erpirod, or they will ferfeit the benefit conferred by the Aft. Th» Australian Mutuar Provident So'ciet^r had given the holders of its policies the pyport^nity to register them, so that it now ** tests with l hose'policy holders to avail them (/.selves of the privilege. ,