TELEGRAPHIC. Per Anglo-Australian Telegraph Agency. (From the Daily Southern Cross.)

Waikato Times, Volume VII, Issue 342, 23 July 1874, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC. Per Anglo-Australian Telegraph Agency. (From the Daily Southern Cross.)

Wellington, Tuesday.' In the Supremo Court in the caao of Steele and Keogh v. the Tribune. The editor of the Tribune enterod a demurrer to the defendants' pleadings in the action for lib©'. Mr Travers appeared in support of the demurrer and the Attomey-G-eueral opposed. Tho Judge reserved his judgment. ' "It ii understood that the Now Z'nlnnd Shipping Com-* pany's fleet, will not be sold"without a full value being paid for it, as several capitalists and merchant* havo agreed that sooner than the steamers be knocked down at leas than their value, all the money will be forthcoming so as to keep the head quarters still in Wellington. A meeting of the City Council of Wellington was nearly unanimous last evening in favour of the memo from Chriatcliurch, conveying an abstraot of a petition to bo presented to tho Hoiue of Representatives, that fees arising from licenses granted within corporate boundaries should be expended in their limits by tho elected authorities. As tho steamer Manawaiu was leaving the harbour last night for Wanganui sho met a brigantine bound inward. Captain Griffiths gave the order port helm. The brigantine then seemed to starboard her helm. The Manawatu stopprd and reversed engines, but boforo sufficient steraway was gained the brigantine struck hrr, carrying away some headgear, top-sails, ard jib-stay. TUe Manuwatu put back for tho night. She will probably leave to-morrow. Both vcsHs showed lights. The brigantine'B>namo is unknown. She anchored near Hutfc.

Chriitchnroh, Tuesday. Thero was the heaviest snow storm last night rcconded for many years.

Dunecun, Tuesday. In the Supreme Court to-day before Judge Chapman the libel caie Dawion t. Mackaj was beard. It was a defamatory libel published in the Bruce Herald on November 11, ns follows :— "Birth— On the Ist instant, at Fourth street, Dunedin, Mary, eldest daughter of Gr. B. Dawson, of a daughter. , Both doing well." The libel was admitted, and ten pounds paid into Court. The defendant pleaded no malice or gross negligence, and that an apology had been published. A verdict \va3 given for fifty pounds damages. Thr heaviest fall of snow for many years occurred to«day.