WELLINGTON.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3142, 14 March 1879, Page 2

WELLINGTON.

This day.

The services of No. 3 Company Thames Scottish Battalion hare been accepted.

The demonstration on the landing of the new Governor will take a public form.

The Magistrate decided a case in which a bankrupt claimed the right to sue for payment for work done between the time of his being adjudged bankrupt and the time of obtaining his discharge. The Magistrate said it would not be reason* able to deprive a bankrupt of the benefit of his own labor between the time of his adjudication and discharge, and therefore he considered the bankrupt was entitled to sue for his personal labor, and gave a rerdict accordingly.

A firs was discovered in Cohen's jeweller's shop, Lambton Quay, last night, but it was not allowed to break through the building. The less valuable portion of the stock, which was not in the safe, was damaged with water and smoke. The building was very little, injured. The stock was insured in various offices for £1250, and the building in the National for £800.

A further extension of time for making the valuation under the Land Tax Act from the 28th of February, to the 28th March has been gazetted. A special time for the formation of valuation lists for the County of Coro* mandel is being fixed by making sections four to 34 inclusive of the Bating Act, 1876, to be read with the words April and May, instead of January and February.

Thursday. The barque Beatrice arrived to-day from Westport, England, with a large shipment of railway iron for the Wairarapa railway. It is proposed to make a new Naval Brigade; a Fire and Marine Brigade also; 64 of those who sent in their names being seafaring men.