WELLINGTON.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3559, 5 December 1882, Page 3

WELLINGTON.

December 5. Judgment was delivered ia the Appeal Court yesterday as follows:—The Queen v. Vale (Christchurch), conviction quashed ; the Queen v. Gorman, conviction affirmed ; New Zealand Loan Agency v. Paterson and McLeod (Dunetlin), verdict affirmed; Maitland v. Mervin (Dunedin), demurrer allowed ; Reynolds v. Napier (Duuedin), demurrer overruled ; Cooper v. Coleman (Gisborne), appeal allowed with costs. The judgment in the case of Maitland v. Mervin decides that tne Government cannot sue for instalments on deferred payments, their only right being to forfeit. By the decision in the case of Cowper v. Coleman a person cannot be adjudicated a bankrupt on the application of a person who purchased debts for the purpose of adjudicating him a bankrupt. The number of nomination for immigrants sent by the outgoing mail was 454 souls. The number from Auckland was 162, Taranaki 9, Hawke's Bay 20, Wellington 52, Nelson and Wesland 7, Marlborough 4, Canterbury, 79, Otago 88, and Southland 33. Of these 280 are single women, 56 single men, and the remainder families. The amount received for fees was £1359. The Government have received intimation that an additional 12,400 acres of reservee in the Hawera district have been leased. This makes a total of 20,100 leased. The survey of other reserves is being pushed on rapidly. A supplementary Gazette issued yesterday further prorogues Parliament until the 15th February next. The Customs returns for the for November amounted to £127,618 ; in the corresponding month last year the amount was £16,378. The beer duty for last month was £5292, being a decrease of £63 on the corresponding month in 1881.