[By Telegraph. ]

Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 112, 13 May 1889, Page 3

[By Telegraph. ]

(united pkeBB association. ] Wanoanui, This Day. Tho Supreme Conrt sittings finished today, and tho Chief Jnstico has returnod to Wellington. Timabu, This Day. A heavy S.E. swell ia tunning into tho roadstead. At the Resident Magistrate's Conrt today, T, Morgan was fined 20a and costs for gambling in n public place (tho bar of an hotol) with dice. A bystander, who gavo information, saw him using a faleo die, and when the _ prisoner was arrested a die was found in his pockety all 4's, s's, arid 6's. For tho defence, it was tfrgVipd that the bar of a hotel was not a public placo under the Gaming Aot, as a Sublio plaoo, according to the Australian ictum, means a place open to the public at all hours of tho day. Tho Bench overruled this. A number of porsons who were oharged with uaing djnamito for oapturing fall fjlettdsd ignorance of tho law, and were fined Is eaoh. 'tho fish were sprats, of which large numbers aro now in harbour. BhvPt, This Day. Arrived, 12.30 p.m. — Mararoa, haying loft Melbonrne at 7 p.m. on the Bth inst., and Hobart at 12.30 p.m. on tho 10th. She brought an English mail, and the following passengers : — Saloon for Wellington— Misses Nicholson, Perry, Munro and Feaster, Mesdames Prico, Perry, Munro and boy, Messrs'. Lawford, Mnnro, Gibson, Perry and Nicholson ; for other ports— Misses Saunders, Taylor, Keand, Dunne and Mathesou, Mr?. Kempthorne, Mossrs. Cleave, Lewis, White, Reid, Hastio, M'Namara, Syms, Hodgkins, Lindsay, Loohbean, Kempthorne, Cuddon, Lloyd, Wright, Leadworth, Batley, Wailorston, Saunders and boy, and Simonson's Opera Company (39) ; steerage— 62,