WELLINGTON.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3174, 22 April 1879, Page 2

WELLINGTON.

This day. Sir George Grey and Mr Sheehan

bound for Auckland.

It is stated that several of the Manners and Cuba street hotel-keepers have agreed to pay a small subsidy to the new le3ees of the Imperial Opera House as an acknowledgment of the benefit which will accrue to the trade of the locality from the continuous run of performances which thpy guarantee. V

It is stated here, on what purports to be cood authority, that a fresh information will be laid against Messrs Kinross Sutton, and Worgan for perjury, in connection with Maori affairs, as referred to in a recent telegram.

A visitor to the Wairarapa, writing of the Wellington - Masterton line, says : " The Featherston line is simply a marvel, but will always remain a monument to the extravagance and recklessness of people who would pierce the Eimutaka at any cost."

At the E.M. Court this morning, Thos. Bromley, a youth of seventeen, was charged with cruelty to animals, in beating a horse with a long spike nail in the end of a stick. It was proved that he drove the nail up to the head in the horde's flesh. The Magistrate fined him 40s, and expressed regret that the law did not allow him to order the culprit ten lashes on his bare back.

Sir George Grey leaves for Auckland land to-morrow in the Hinemoa. Hon. J. Sheehan will most probably accompany him.

Monday. Both evning papers comment upon the Schwartz case as a great miscarriage of justice.

A poll on the proposal to raise a loan of £100,000 will be taken to-morrow.

In the Supreme Court, counsel in a case, asked tor an adjournment for two hours in consequence of a material witness not being present. His Honor refused. The case was deferred till next day, counsel applying for an adjournment and paying costs of Court for the day. A large catch of fish was brought in today from Port Underwood, by the deep sea fishing smack Lena.

A meeting is to be held at Masterton to consider the advisability of bringing the Babbit Act into force in that district.

Some stations are almost practically ruined by the pest. A great demand for female servants exists in Wairarapa. The Eesident Magistrate determined not to allow costs of counsel unless in cases where the amount sued for was over five pounds.

Many cases of typhoid fever, which spread about some of the localities not affected by bad drainage or unhealthiness, is due to infected milk, and one dairy-man, in consequence of sickness about the place, ceased to retail his milk.

Formal complaint was made to-day to the Eesident Magistrate of an officer of the Court who had caused the bailiff to go on premises tlie property of which had been placed in charge by the applicant. The Magistrate said if applicant sustained any loss through the action of an officer of the Court, he could give him a mouth's notice and sue him for the loss, and recommended that coarse to the applicant, who said he would act on the advice.

William Lancaster, charged with wife desartion, was remanded to Christchurch.