WELLINGTON.

Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2913, 17 June 1878, Page 2

WELLINGTON.

Friday.

The case against Mr McDonald, auc* t'onee:*, for breach of the conveyancing ordinance, was called on this morning, but was adjourned for a week.

This day.

The New Zcalander announces that the following judicial changes are about to be made:—Dlsl.lpt Judge Ward will be re* lieved of the duty of holding sittings at Milton and liiverc?.rgill, aid will be required to preside in the new District Court to be established at Christ* church, as well as at Oamaiu and Tiinaru, as at present. Judge Haivey, r.f the 'Goldfislds District

will be required to sit also at Invercnrgill; and District Judge Bathgale, of Dunedin", will be required' to sit at Milton and Palmerston. Mr Woolcombe, Resident Magistrate of Timaru, retires- on a pension. Mr Mellish, Besident Magistrate of ChriSkChurch, will be transferred to Timaru., Mr Bichmond Beetham,' Besident Magistrate of Napier, will succeed Mr Mellish as Besident Magistrate at Christchurch. Mr Mansford, Besident Magistrate of Port Chalmers, will, on;the 29th, relieve Mr J. C. Crawford, Besident Magistrate of this city, r. ho retires on a pension. Mr Mansford will also be District Judge for Wellington and Wairarapa. Mr Isaac Newton Watt, Besident Magistrate of Duntdin, will take cliarge of the Port Chalmers Court. No one is yet appointed to succeed Mr Beetham of Napier, but as a District Court is to be established ihere, a professional man will ,be apppintj?d. lo preside in both. Courts. - i<l; ■ ' \[; "■■'. ■ ■''' '■ •.. ■ .;- •

Mr Henry Blundoil, senior, lat3 proprietor and founder of the Evening Post, died after, a short illness, aged 65.

At a meeting of Boman Catholics kit night, for the purpose of starting a girls' school, at Te /to, £530 was collected in the room.