WELLINGTON.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3464, 31 January 1880, Page 2

WELLINGTON.

Yesterday.

A youth who was employed in the Taratahi Post Office, Wairarapa, has illegally taken possession of certain letters which he had access to, and absconded. The pelice are making enquiries as to his whereabouts. Colonel Scratchley returned from the , South to-day after inspecting the various Southern ports. A young man named Loner had his left thigh broken last night by a fall of earth at the Kaiwarra railway works. The following are the latest quotations on the Cup:—3 to 1 against Foul Play offered, 100 to 30 against Foul Play taken, 4 to 1 against Lara offered, 100 to 15 against Templeton taken and offered, 100 to 15 against Hippocampus taken and offered, 100 to 12 against Laertes offered, 10 to 8 against Laertes taken, 100 to 8 against any other offered. The terms and conditions of the Special Settlement in the Te Puke Block at Tauranga by Mr Vesey Stewart appear iv the Gazette. The appointment of His Honor Judge Johnston and W. S. Reid, Esq., SolicitorGeneral, as Commissioners under the revision of Statutes Act, 1879, is Gazetted. At the Supreme Court today, in the action of Macfarlane and others' r. Bees, claiming £10,0C0 damages for slander of title in connection with the estate of the late Capt. Eeid of Poverty Bay, the jury entered a verdict for £75. It is understood that an application for new trial will be made. . Young Scott, the pedestrian, arrived hereto-day. He will essay to walk 112 miles in 24 hours, commencing on the sth inst. The Premier left for the south this afternoon. j Ministers meet in Cabinet to-day, to consider the appointment of a Koyal Commissioner on the native affairs, vice Mohi Tawhai resigned.