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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3385, 13 December 1889, Page 2

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SIIPREHE COURT.

Timauu, Dec. 12,

Mr Justice Dennison and a special jury were occupied till !) o'clock over a suit for £801) damages by a servant girl, Jane Keid v. Rudolph Friedlander, a merchant of Ashburton. It appeared that the plaintiff, Mrs Friedlaiider, had an altercation on August 9th about a holiday, and the plaintiff alleged that the defendant coming in ordered her out of the room and followed her into the passage and knocked her dwn with blows on the back, so that slio fell on the edge of a door, laying her Mehead open, and sustaining a painful wound and disfigurement for life. The defendant told quite another story, which was corroborated by his wife, that ho ordered the girl to leave the room, and on her refusing to go ho led her quietly to the door and closed it upon her, Directly afterward ho heard aery, and the girl returned with her head bleeding. The door .against which she fell beiug some distance away, it was suggested, for tho defence, that the girl in her anger slipped and fell. The jury disagreed and the counsel consented to their discharge, they being hopeless of agreement, Wool Sales.

Duneoin, December 12,

The joint wool sale 3 were opened to day with a fair attendance of buyers, but not quite so many as last year. A good demand was experienced, but the adverse reports from England li.nl considerable influence, und growers may probably be dissatisfied. There was a good demand for line ooiubing greasy, the top price of crossbreds showing l'/lto 2d advance ou last year, merinos participating in tlm rise. Coarse descriptions were in less demand, but showed a rise of fd to Id. St'ronnch's prices (all medium' woo!, nono first clnss): —Moriito {greasy), Sd to lid; greasy half-bred, !ijd to Is OJd; pieces .OJd to Sd; slips (lialf-bred), Is 0| to Is Ijil; slips (crossbred), 10j[d to lift ■

THE PRIMACY DISPUTE,

Bishop Hadfield Ousted.

Auckland, December 12.

The Standing Commission of the Anglican Church have given their decision in regard to tho dispute as to the election of Bishop Hadfield as Primate. The decision is as follows: —(1) That there was no vacancy in tho office of Primate iu February 1889, when the General Synod elected the Bishop of Wellington, (2) That a Primate cannot be elected by anticipation on a vacancy in the office; aud (8) that on the resignation of the late Primate (the Bishop of Chriscchurch) in ■September, the senior Bishop, byconsecratiou the Bishop of 'Nelson, became the Primate to hold,office until the General Synod shall make other .prqvisiou in that behalf. Bishop buter has therefore been declared Primate,

Evicted Tenants Fund,

Wellington, December 12,

- £(j2s is forwarded by llie Doric's mail to-day to the "Evicted Tenants Fund," by the Wellington branch of the Irish National League, Somo other email amounts-liave still to CPQ in.

The Government House Slums*

Weli.ixotox Friday!

Workmen are still busy on drainage works round Government House ami Government Buildings, A num. ber of old drains muide the grounds of the former are being torn up.

Rev Mr Smu'g'eoii'

Pijnedin, Thursday.

. At to-day's. sitting tlie Baptist Conference Committee appointed to see tho Bov Mr Spiirgeon, relative to liia continuance in the colony, reported tlmt Mr Spuigeon was quite willing to consider any proposal in tlmt direction. A resolution was passed authorising the Committee to enter into an eimaireiiient with liirn . a . 9 . : .

loi' special services i ri vai'ioiis churches, aud to open a guarantee fund to

ensuro honorable maintenance while engaged in the service of the union.

The Duplicate Cable.

Wellington, Friday. The acting-Premier intends writing to the Postmaster-General of New South wale? re tho duplicate cabli. Sir Henry Parkea having failed to all communications addressed to to him. In expectation of a great rush of business during' Exhibition time the Cablo Company havo reduced the rates oil press messages froui New Zealand by one third. Tliey find however they have done much less business all round than during the same month last.