WELLINGTON.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3388, 31 October 1879, Page 2

WELLINGTON.

This day. The Hay or of "Wellington. Bank HolidaysA Schoolmaster in Court. The attempt to reduce the Mayor's yaarij allowance was defeated. It being found that the water supply of the city is scarcely adequate the corporation are rery watchful to prevent waste. Major Atkinson is gazetted Commissioner of Stamp Duties ; tenth of November and the Ist December are provincial bank holidays throughout the cobny. A parent sought to recover £20 from a schoolmaster for severely beating hia boy while at hi* school. It was shown tht boy had misconducted himself all the morning, and that while tho master thrashed him over his shoulders with a cad* he struck the boy accideutal/y on the

hftiil and neck through the boy jumping about. Judgment for the defendant.

The wmit of sufficient school accommodation for the children of tho city is attracting attention. Tho Paruora eienrni for London with a cargo vulin»d a' £34,71)7. Those Bye-laws. In order to get at the tradesman who successfully contested his ri«ht to expose article;! for *ale on the footpath, on the ground that his house stood back some feet from tho street boundary, the Corporation determined, and have called upon him to fence that spare ground according to the regulations. Sudden Death.

Eobert Sales, very recently from Eaikoura. was found dead in hit bed at the National Hotel this morning. He went to bed about nina o'clock last night, and got'up at half-pa-«t six and had a drink and went to bed again. When he was called for breakfast he was found dead.