LATEST WELLINGTON NEWS

Waikato Times, Volume XXXV, Issue 2806, 8 July 1890, Page 2

LATEST WELLINGTON NEWS

(IIV TiaBUHAl'H— I'ItKSS ASSOCIATION - ). Wki.i.ixcto.v, Last Night. A M'MjiKlt of informations have been sworn against Kdwnrd J. Robinson, formerly cleric in the Shipping Department of the Customs, charging him with embezzling monies of the Oovprument. Robinson was formerly :it Wellington, but three or four ir.nnths ago was removed to Dimedin. lie is believed to have left for Sydney. li'>l|:mm was a wall-known footballer. The R.M.S. Alameda, with the English mnils of the 14th ult., left San fr'rauciscn fur Auckland cm the 2Stli ult., contract date, and tho iI.M.S. Mnriposa, with the colonial mails of tho Kith ult., arrived at S,in l'Yancisco from Auckland on tho sth iu*t., contract date. I n the Supremo Court to-day, judgment on the Te Kooti appeal cf.se was delivered, the appeal being disallowed with costs. The I'fl'ect of the. judgi,lent u that Te Kooti will either have to find sureties as ordered by Mr Bush, U.M. at Upotiki, or go to gaol for six months. An important suit hegan in the Supreme Court co-day, before tho Chief .lattice, in which Miss Ann Isabella Hatfield seeks to c.uiso the Public Trustee to re-open the accounts in the est.ite of her father, the lute Chiirles Hatlield. The principal grounds arc mismanagement of tho estate in rebuilding the Royal Hotel on a portion of leasehold land, while there was available freehold land ; and in the preparation of a number of plans for the erection of shops, which veni not carried out, The alleged mismanagement occurred in ISTo, when the late Jonas Woodward was Public Trustee. Mr W. T. L, Traver, and with him Mr Brando", appears for the plaintiff, and Sir Robert Stout and Mr Stafford for the defendant. Mr Travor opened the case at great length, and the Court was adjourned until to-morrow. The R.M.S. Tainui left Capetown for Wellington, via Kobart, on Saturday afternoon.