The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR P.M. Resurrexi. MONDAY, JUNE 11, 1883.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4503, 11 June 1883, Page 2

The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR P.M. Resurrexi. MONDAY, JUNE 11, 1883.

Tende >s were opened on Saturday after* noon at the County Council Chambers for widening 40 chains of the road from the mines at Otunui to the battery as follows :— Bae and party (accepted), £60 j Punch ani Trainor. £80; Wililet, £98; and Hennelly and May, £150. The work is to be com* pleted«n six weeks from date:

Tee County Council hare Accepted the tender of Mr Punch for erecting a foot and horse bridge over the Ohineniuri Hirer at Owharoa. The price is £239.

A numbkb of the constituents of Mr Fish, M.H.8., Dunedin, met on Saturday to arrange for a banquet to him prior to his departure for Wellington, but 83 a note wai received from him asking that it should be deferred, the idea was relinquished. It is intended, bow* ever, to'tender him a demonstration oh his return. Cantbbbuby people are becoming somewhat fierjr. Within a few miles of Ohislchuroh, on Friday night, a six roomed house was burnt down arid 121 paund notes, including the house and furniture, were destroyed. The' same night an attempt was made to burn a cottage on Scott's Road, in which a family of eight , were living, but this fire was put out. At half-pail, five o'clock yesterday morning a block of building; was burnt in Cathedral Square, Ghristeburcb, the insurances on which amounted to £3130, but the losses above that sum were put'down at £3150. Some of the buildings burnt were Vbry old.

Thb putting in position of the new wheel at the Alburni* battery will be finished some time to-morrow, and tbe manager expects to be tible to resume crushing on Wednesday morning.

The programme for the annual concert in connection with the Presbyterian Church it published ia our issue of this evening, It is of an attractive nature, and should draw a large audience.

Wb lea*n that the member for Coromandel, A. J. Cadman, Esq., purposes addressing the Thames portion. of his constituency in the course of a fow dajß. It is probable that Friday will be the day and the Kauraeranga Boys' School the place for the meeting,

The p.s. Enterprise is laid up in Auckland a couple of days for repairs. On Saturday she burst one of her tubes.

The Registration notice of the Darwin Gold Mining Company appears in our advertising columns. Mr R. McDonald Scott is the legal manager. At an inqueat on the body of Thomaß Lloyd, who died at the Auckland hospital on Thursday last, from injuries" received ; while jacking logs in Kaipara bush, the jury returned a verdict of accidental death. The ioqueßt was not held till Saturday owing to neglect to report the death to the police or the coroner. At the inquest Dr Hooper said be did hot consider it his duty, as an honorary surgeon of the hospital, to do so, as there was a house surgeon on the spot.

Judgment in a remarkable case has just been given in Nelson. Arthur Claydeo, late Immigration Agent, sold to Jas. Park, surveyor, a boose and land mortgaged for £200. Park's statement was that he purchased simply for tbe price of the mortgage, which was to be transferred with the land, it being under tjhe Land Transfer Act. A transfer wag prepared and signed and explained to the parties. Ten days later Clayden demanded payment of £200, explaining that his intention had been te sell for £400— half cash, and not the mortgage; bnt as there was a mistake he offered to take Back the property. Park refused to retransfer, and Clayden commenced proceedings, claiming to have the transfer annulled. The evidence as to the value of the property was conflicting.- for Park it was stated that £200 was a fair price, while for Clayden evidence was given of its being worth £400. It was not alleged that Park had acted otherwise than in good faith. The Registrar decided that neither party understood the other, aud ■that there was no contract. It was not a case for rectification of contract, but for cancellation, provided the position of tbe parties had not been so altered with respect to the land as to preclude their being replaced in their former position. As there had been no dealings with the land, and Clayden had sought redress speedily, the transfer would be set aside and its registration cancelled. In consequence of Clayden's carelessness he ordered him to pay the eostr of summons and transfer.