LATEST WELLINGTON NEWS. [BY TELEGRAPH PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Wellintion, Monday.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 2025, 30 June 1885, Page 2

LATEST WELLINGTON NEWS. [BY TELEGRAPH PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Wellintion, Monday.

Puk ninioui current tli.it tin- him. Mr Stout h to be made Chief Justice is denied. .During the pi ogi ess of a. particularly in terestmg case m the Bankruptcy Cmiit to day, Justice Richmond wild h« should he ({lad to find that the duty of taking notci of •videnco had been taken away from him, and placed on tho shoulders of Hhorthand writeri. Mr Travels, after pointing out that the idea of ttnplciying shorthand writers came from America, remarked that he had his doubt* as to the efficiency of tho tyiteiu introduced into that country. Him Honour r«aid it whs c-oinowhat singular that in Neu Zealand people who wero moat concerned were rarely consulted when » change w.n contemplated. Hin opinion wan that if a Hhorthaud writer was able to take notes which the judge was obliged to take, nhott hand \\ liters would bo quite fit to occupy tho judge* Heat. He thought, however, ■that tho system was not such a good one as many believed it to be. A largo quantity of exhibits for the New Zetland liidustwal Exhibition armed yes teid.iy and to-du\. Captain Cuncion, of tho lonic, h.is re ported to the Customs that on Sunday, on the passage fioin Xiijm'r t<> N\ i llington, while off Capo rallied, he stnick. lightly on some h.ird substance. The \ess(*l wan two miles off land. An examination by dncru showed no daningo as fai as ascertamable. The lejioit has Ir-imi submitted to the Scciet.uy of Ciist<>m«, who will decide if .m enquiry is neirssary. Arrived : The ship City of I'lorencp, Captain Lea--k, !(."> days from London During the passage a lad named Kiank Strutton fell from aloft and was killed. At a special nn eting of the Wellington Chamber of C mimerco, a resolution was unanimously passed depiec.iting any important change in the tariff of I>N2.