AUCKLAND.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3539, 29 April 1880, Page 2

AUCKLAND.

This day.

The* case Smith v. Palmer, claiming three thousand pounds damages for breach of contract,. has closed at" the Supreme Court, and the jury has awarded one farthing damages.

Sir George Grey is expected from the Kawau next Tuesday, when he* will address a meeting at the Theatre Eoyal.

A girl named Annie Wallace, aged three years and five months, has been fatally burned at Himua. Indecent Assault. At the Police Court to-day, Charles Alexander Martin was charged with indecently assaulting Bachel Fletcher. The case was adjourned in consequence of" the absence of witnesses. Bail was allowed. The Totalisator Cases. - Henry Richardson, James Corbett, Eichard James Feltus, and Leonard Adams were charged under the Vagrant Act with playing with a totalisator at a game of chance on the Ellerslie course. The totalisator was produced in Court.

The charge against Feltus was withdrawn, as he. was'only engaged, as clerk.

Francis Short, hairdresser, deposed that he paid 10s for a ticket on King Quail, three other tickets were taken. He went to watch the race. King Quail won. When he returned, the totalisa'.or proprietor «ffered him a fourteenth share. A dispute ensued, aud the proprietor said someone had altered the number. Eventually he got his £12.

William Booth, bootmaker, corroborated.

William Eobert E. Churton saw only four up when the race was run.

Feltus deposed that Richardson received the money and Corbett worked the machine. Witness made entries, stamped the tickets. Fourteen subscribers to King Quail were entered after the race had been run. Detective Jeffrey is being examined. Latee.

The totalisator cases are concluded. The defendants are sentenced to one month with hard labor.

A private telegram received here reports Major Atkinson ill, and not going to the front with Mr Bryce. He requires rest.

Sailed: s.s. Hinemoa, with Messrs Whitaker and Bryce, passengers. She lands a quantity of bridge material at Opunake.

Mr Bryce meets Major Atkinson at New Plymouth.

Mr Whitaker is anxious to get to Wellington to consult with his colleagues re measures to be introduced iuto the new Parliament but he will remain at New Plymouth if his advice is necessary, afterwards going to Wellington overland.