WELLINGTON.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3189, 9 May 1879, Page 2

WELLINGTON.

This; day.

The Hon. Robert Stout arrived to-day from the South,* and Col. Whitmore from Napier and Poverty Bay.

The Hinemoa isl expected "• to leave for Auckland this evening.' U:'■'": ' ' 4 t.'-v.' '•",:-"' i.;-.',,^[ 7:'i'.'::'.V.'.'.''. -"'' Thursday- - : j,:Jßuring,,ttie p^'^fortDigli^.'.there mive, .been,44jactfofls'jco^menced under-,sum-* , injury- proceediig^^flde^j^p^&lJsj^t; and: 14 filings in ■ bankruptcy in Well ington during two weeks. ,;•>!,[,, ' v.ij,.";,- 'V- ' , It is'certain that Welling ton. will send one oarsman at least to the Sydney Exhibition, but an effort will be made to send a whole crew. i '

The Chronicle strongly urges Governmetit to adhere to the judicial changes announced to be made on'the West

'Coast;,.':"','.; ■"_ ; 1;.-'".v''-';./ i: i '"''.''"-' t"; 1J j';v;', i The approachiiigni^j^pralt'y'election isj creating, great interes^V'.T'', 1 J^ '^'\ JH'~U' * ': The Post advocates that juries should be provided with, pens. and. ink .when in the jury box, and generally .should, be afforded better accommodation than isl the case at present.,.;, \ •, :'.',-. „ . J(l .. ; ' Four meetings of creditors were called for toiday. -■■-<■; >■:<• ■■.■•."!■■, ; .- \' ; u-,,' , Two men named' Dodsworth and Fletcher, 1 for some time.past carrying on, business as bakers in Courteney Place, 'ard believed to have decamped, and not to be^found; They swere in financial difficulties, and their principal creditors, Messrs Plummer, Beeves, and Co., seized iheir 'StpckilastTuesday.''.:' 1'1'!'"" 1^ ■ :"; ":;;; ; In the case of McDowell ?. Leech, in i which the plaintiff claimed £50 for haying .bis horse killed by defendarit'ft cartf the' j magistrate said he visited the ground, ahd'j in his opinion plaintiff was nofcriding onV his proper side of the road. If ho had i been, he could have seen defendants cart approaching, and might have av<^ided the accident. He, theretore gave ludcmenti tor defendant —