Telegraphic.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3199, 8 May 1889, Page 2

Telegraphic.

The PremierWellington, Wednesday. The Premier lias been absent from the Treasury building for the last two dayu Buffering from a cold. Died in the HospitalWellington, Wednesday, James Lowry, a carpenter, who was received in the Wellington Hospital froru Waipawa last month, suffering from injuries sustained by the fall of a partition in a house he was building, died this morning. Divorce. Wanganui, May 7. The Supreme Court resumed its sitting here this morning. In the divorce case, Mudford v, Mudford an d Hickford, the jury returned a verdict for damages at £25 and costs £35 ; and the Judge granted a .decree nisi to be made, 'absolute 'at the next sittings of the Divorce Court at Wellington, after three months.

Infringement of fatentWellington, Wednesday. Mr Justice Richmond delivered judgment in the oase Young y Tramway Co, an action for infringement of patent heard in January, when the jury awarded damages for plaintiff. 'Dhecase was then reserved for the further consideration of law points, each party claiming the'judgment of the Court. The defendants moved for a new triallo-day Mr Justice Eichmond gave judgment for plaintiff for the damages found by the jury all profits derived by defendants from the use of the invention from the date of the writ, and an injunction against the further use of the cars built on plaintiffs model, and the destruction of'the. four cars on that model. Costs for plaintiff.

AUCKLAND ITEMS. , Auckland, May 7. The Kapauga Assessment Board of Reviewers sat at Coromandel toj day, when the assessment of ■the Kapanga Gold Mining Company's property was reduced from L 102,000 to 1i18,500. Mr T, Cotter appeared for the Property Tax Comtnissiontr, and Mr Hesketk for the,, Company, and an able stand was made on both sides. The owners of the property are an English Company, The bronze medal of the Eoyal Humane Society has been presented to Mr W. Smith, of Auckland, who, in August, 188G, rescued a woman from a cab which fell into the harbor from the Queen-street wharf,

Dissatisfaction exists because the valuation rolls for the Waikato district are not" yet to hand, since the reviewers are only now hearing the objections. Jn the absence of the rolls the local Board and Council elections cannot he held at the specified lime, the first week in May. Mr E, Mitchelson returned this evening frWOtorobanga, where ho interviewed the Natives with regard to;the land surveys. The Maoris expressed a willingness to have the land opened up, 'Mr Mitohelson brought with him a whalebone mere and some mats, presents from the Waikato chiefs to the Governor.

Fines amounting in all to £7O, with costs £2B ;15s, have been imposed at Waipu, upon 'A. Magari, J. Lang E, McLepd, M. Bimson, Peatherstonand Hastwell, for sly grog Belling. .

Juvenile. Crime. Dcnedin, May 7. Anothei" of those oases of juvenile crime wliioh are becoming so rife, was before the Police Court to-day, when four boys ranging, from 10 to 15 years ot ago were charged with breaking the. brass fittings off a portable engine and Boiling them, Three of the lads we sentenced to a whipping, and the one aged 15 to seven days' imprisonment. The Bench commented severely on the conduct of the parents in not looking after the children, and on the woman who had purohased the fittings from the boys,

Acclimatisation' . Dunedin, May 7. The matter of the conference of the various societies was considered by the committee of the Acclimatisation Society-tprday, A committee was appointed to: prepare a statement of the viewß of the Society on various; points submitted at the Canterbury.. Society; md it was decided to ark the member for the Canterbury Society to represent Otago. One member said he would never support the proposal to put down shooting on: Sunday, Othirs agreed that they might as well try to fly as to try and impose a pun lieeuie,