WELLINGTON.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3165, 10 April 1879, Page 1

WELLINGTON.

Wednesday. During the hearing of the case today, in which Williams, who embezzled from tbe lodge of Independent Order.of Foresters, His Honor, on hearing that the lodge had never been registered, said that the uncertainty of the lair arose one-half:? from the stupidity of the public and the other half from the stupidity of the lodges. The Mount Cook School Committee refused to take advantage of the penny savings bank in schools system. An appeal is to be made to the public for a good peal of bells for St. Peter's Church. , The Premier and the Native Minister are to leave by the Hinemoa this evening for New Plymouth. The ship Warwick leaves shortly;.for San Francisco to load grain for England. Tbe R.M. to-day sentenced an articled seaman to four weeks' hard labor for refusing duty. . Johnson and Co. sued the captain of the Loch Fergus for damage to a quantity; of galvanised iron on the voyage out. The Magistrate held that defendants were liable if the damage was caused through their negligence. The only way in which the damage could be accounted for was that the hatches had been left open for ventilation, and whilst .they were open a quantity of sea water had swept in. Judgment was given for plaintiff for £51 8s 9d and costs... While in the South his Excellency will visit Westland if the weather be at all favourable. After his return from Hokitika to Wellington his Excellency will visit Picton and Nelson, and hopes to be able to spend a month in Auckland before opening Parliament. ■ Mr G. S. Cooper, Under-Secretary for the Colony, is seriously ill of dysentery, He has been confined, to his. bed since (Friday last.