Telegraphic.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3111, 24 January 1889, Page 2

Telegraphic.

Alleged Breach of Contract; ' rDimdiSt, January 28, In the Supreme Court, the case iWleyv.ti. Fisher, a;chum of £2OO damages for a breuchof contract in connection; with tho sale of shares of tho Now Zealand Shipping Company nvas concluded to-day as far as the . _OTidenMjufncl^t^inei)(; : .:-wero',cqn-' : cerned. ■ l|or the the points raised, Jlr Bell: contended that innovation and substitution had ; been proved by the plaiutiff's evidence, so tlj at if anyone was eiititled to succeed it was not JMey, but the persons to whom the shar'e3,rae to be transferred who were not before tho Court-; and as to the question of damage, that' as the plaintiff had agreed to 'immediately transfef 'the shares to others, lie himself: could have suffered no damage. - . Mr.. Solomon contended there was nothing, in tho points raised, but if thereyvas.he asked that the Court allow: theplaintiti to amend his pleaa by adding and Nicol, so that alltlie- parties could be before the Court v His Honor reserved judgment,

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At the Supreme Courfcito-day, in Banco sittings, : two cases ,611 appeal came' : before : Mr; •? Justice ■■; Gillies'. They were; in regard to.; the conviction at 'the; .- police-court:;' against. Goprge .;M6Bride, ajailor, vwho'was' fined, at the police court-'ios:and costs each on two charges of allowing girls, in his factory diiririg.the meal hour. tMl 1 Jleßketh' appeared for. the appellant, Mcßride, and Mr H. Williamson for the respondent. Serge uit Gamble, the police officer who instituted the prosecutions in the lower Court. '.Mr. Heslteth argued that there was. nothing, to show . that' any offence had been committed, as it had not been proved that Mcßride had given any active consent or permission to the girls to be in the room,'and,, therefore, had not <'allowed" them. His Honor, upheld this objection',- and quashed the first conviction. The second conviction was also declared bad, on tho ground that the information was not Buflioieut.

Vote of Sympathy. Dunedin, January 23, The Professional Board of, Otago has passed a resolution of its deep sympathy with the Chancellor, the Rev Dr Stuart, in the great sorrow which has befallen him in the death of his son, D. M. Stuart; and gratification at the vigor and elasticity of mind which enables him, notwithstanding his great burden of personal affliction, to continue his dovoted labors on behalf of the University, and other institutions, of education and religion, ■

Visitors to New ZealandDunedin, J-tn 23..;, Of ninety passengers booked for tlie second excursion to'the Sounds by the Tarawera on Saturday, fifty are from outside the colony—San Francisco, England, Ireland, New South Wales, and Victoria being "all well represented. I SIR H. ATKINSON. ■''■'.' ' Hawera, Thursday. ; | Sit H. Atkinson is announced to apeak hero on Monday evening. •