Telegraphic.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 3033, 19 October 1888, Page 2

Telegraphic.

. Vpte of Confidence. s .... Auckland, October 18. . Sir l l \ J. Moss, M.H.E., addressed ' his constituents .this evening, and received a'vote of confident :t . ■ Westporfc Harbor Board. j ! Wesipobt, October 18. , The Harbor Board appointed Mr ( Martin, District. Engineer, to the > position of Engineer of Works; also 1 passed a resolution to borrow s £IOB,OOO. P • ' . Supreme Court. CiißisTOHUßcu, October 18. : At the Supreme Court to-day bej foroMr Justice . Ward, the case of t J ones v Spence cauie to aclose. Jonos ; trayelledjas a s groom with entire lrorses; > belonging to Spence, and had done so' froip the season-in .1883; to that of I 188y.' In 1887 Spence caused Jones i to bo.arrested oji,a charge of ,embez- ! zling certain service fcos. Jones was j brought before,; the ■ Magistrate ,and • Ultimately ho was'committed for trial for embezzlement on , three separate obarges. •' When the ' Supremo Court trial camo on Jones was acquitted on ono chargo, and a nolle prosequi was entered ou the other twq,on the ploti tlitit tlie charges were false and malicious, and that the imprisonment was wrongful, Plaintiff sought to recover a solatium of iIOOO. The defenco, throughout j was the plea of: reasonable justified- j tion for tho vhOle.pfocedure, ftiidthe i assertioit" tlj{it v iii certain specified ( cases |he ; plaintiff., hail .actually re- i ceived fees for- horse'servioe and had j i)ot accounted for tjiom. In the course j of the evidence it cairieout that several \ leaves were missing from the .book, j kept by Jones, but' by; whom these [ leaves' were 'extracted, did not , very j clearly appear. It ms also shown | that Jones at the Bangiora Show had i faeert guilty, of exhibiting a foal of the i horse' Chancellor, which was : noti by that horse;_ Jones received up money \ prize in. this competition', otherwise \ 'ho judgpsaid'he would been j liable'to an indictment for'obtaining c - -After t a lengthy Jiearfrigi and a full hour's -j address ,by Mr Bowmaif for the jj plaintiff, a'verdict j for the p!§|)it!|6U,fj!l; 'flqqiits, ..with g ;iTO damages.'.Mi.Holtqes guvo I notice, in, defendant's,- to n fi

■■ ■;' Fires,« ;■* . DuNEDiN, 'Friday: A hoilse .belonging to Mr McLean iit .Miisselburglv.was'.bifrnt last night, It wis insured m tho Standard Office,for, h'fptf ftt wd oco'upied: by Ifp Parsons'! was,destroyed ,byfire,- Insnraude, fISO iiithe ;iUnionOffice,' 1 ' ; : ' i; ,:' ' AuOKUND, ;Frifl(ty,. . ' A dwolling-liQiiije belonging to J, M :|fi ; WiDianw at • 'Waiuku was bnriit : 'do,wn;on Monday night.- The house and furniture were insured for JllO.in the, South' British,-, and % lossis