LATEST TELEGRAPHIC

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 283, 7 October 1879, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAPHIC

(rElt PRESS AGENCY.)

WELLINGTON.

Monday.

PARLIAMENTARY, Ministers notified the Governor thai

they intend to resign and will formally do »to-monw after tho presentation of the

address. In the event of Hall being called upon to. form a Ministry the following will in all probability compose the Government : Hall and Rolleston, or Wakefield, for Canterbury; Ollivier, Dunedin; Whitaker senior will be called to the Upper House and made Attorney-General, to represent Auckland; Atkinson, Taranaki; Onnond, for Napier, if he will accept; some difficulty as to Wellington, but it is thought Bryce or Johnston will be selected, The Opposition meet at the Occidental to-night to celebrato the victory. The Criminal Sittings of the Supreme Court opened to-day by the Chief Justice. There was only one person in the Calendar who could not read or write. Referring to the Poverty Bay cases sent here, the Chief Justice said some fixed rule siinuld be laid down to which committing Justices should adhere. It should not

ba at the will or instigation .if any person that trial should take place elsewhere, unless with the sanction of the Supreme Court.

Frank Amoor pleaded guilty to stealing 'goods, the property of Turnbull & Smith, sentence deferred.

When the Rotomahana arrives, members of the General Assembly will bs invited to inspect her.

An attempt was made to upset the tram car a night or two ago by placing a block of concrete across the line. DUNEDIN.

I Monday. The Star says Macandrew is the only member of the Ministry acceptable to Otago, and cautions Hall, if the task of forming a Ministry falls to him, to avoid the inclusion of too much Canterbury element,

Over two thousand people went to Port Chalmers yesterday to inspect the Rotomahana. One train left town with twenty-

seven carriages drawn by two engines. Judge Williams, commenting on the calendar, pointed out that the offences were not the outcome of drink, nor of. poverty or want amongst workingmen through depressed times; but on the contrary, the crimes required for their consummation a clear and unclouded brain, and are the offspring, not of drunken folly, but of calm and deliberately planned wickedness. Offences like these, he said, are of the most dangerous kind, and when prevalent indicate the unwholesome condition of society, and should be met with stern and prompt repression. AUCKLAND. Saturday. William Denham was committed for trial for stealing four thousand pounds worth of securities from Mr Singleton, a recent arrival,

Monday,

Judgment has been delivered against' Br Wallis 1 agent, with costs, for treating

City West voters, ■GRAHAMSTOWN, Saturday. The electoral writ appears in the Advertiser. A fire broke out 4.30 this morning in a

three-roomed cottage in Fenton-street, which was occupied by a man named Davies, a bushman, and owned by Mr Savage. The alarm was given only just in time for the occupants to escape. BLENHEIM. Saturday. A writ claiming £IOOO damages was served on Mr Johnston, proprietor of the Express, yesterday afternoon, at the suit of Mr 0. J. W. Griffiths, for printing and publishing a letter hoaded " Glass-house Occupants should not Throw Stones,"! in

his issue of the 24th of September. Mr Rogers is retained for the plaintiff, and Mr R. Stout and Mr Sinclair (of Blenheim) for the defendant.