WELLINGTON.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2603, 12 May 1877, Page 2

WELLINGTON.

Friday.

Telegrams relating to a tidal ware bave been received here from the following places :—Gisborne, Poverty Bay, Napier, Lyttelton, Timaru,' Oamaru, Port Chalmers, and the Bluff. , The phenomenon observed at all*the above places this morning after seven. The rise and fall varied from three to eight feet, which it rose at Poverty Bay. The ebb and flow each time is described as occupying dif-

ferent times between fifteen minutes and an hour. No damage is reported anywhere. Here the rise and fall slackened at midday, but increased again in the afternoon, and ceased altogether about seven p.m. This day. In the Supreme Court this morning the Chief Justice delivered judgment in the case Hammond versus the Public Trustee, in which oue creditor endeavored to recover from a life insurance policy which [Robert Sparke Lovre, a bankrupt, had effected with the Victoria Life Assurance Company prior to his decease. Lowe left a widow and five children and the point" involved was, whether a policy of insurance is protected to the family from the creditors on, the death of the assured. The Court decided that it was, and judgment with costs was given in favor of defendant..