BANKRUPTCY ASSIGNEE'S SALARY.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume IV, Issue 633, 25 October 1883, Page 3

BANKRUPTCY ASSIGNEE'S SALARY.

WELLINGTON, October 25. The salary proposed to be given to each assignee will be £550.

This morning* Wanganui Chronicle says :— Mr. 8. F. Whitcombe, the present tr*so olerk on the Wanganai section, is about to be transferred to take cbarge, in a similar capacity, of the New Plymouth Mtotion. We understand that both are to be bsnetforth combined under Mr. Botheram, as district manager of the whols railway from Foxton to New Plymouth, and that Mr. "Whitcoinbe will in fact be his deputy for the northern part of the fine. It is rumored that Mr. Harris, who at present is in charge at New Plymouth, will be transferred to Napier, and that Mr. Whitcombe will be . succeeded at Wanganai by Mr. Dawson. The French Jonrnal Offloiel gives a return of the crops at the middle of last month, collected from the Prefects' reports. The wheat harvest was then in thirty rfbor departments slightly superior to the average. In three it was 25 per cent better than the average ; in twentyone it was about the average ; and in rest below. Oats were better. In fiftyseven departments there was a promised yield of nearly an average, and in thirteen of them of more than twenty-five per cent, above the average. Bye stood worst, promising only in twenty-four departments a crop superior to the average of the ten preceding years. The Bulletin dcs Halle* expect* a deficit of 40 least twenty-five per cent, on the average. Following is from a Sydney paper :— "4 man in a New Zealand town sued the Corporation the other day for injuries sustained one night by coming in collision with a telegraph post. And he got £80 damages. This is the kind of law we should like to live under. We think a stop should be put to the midnight roystsringof telegraph posts and such things. The way they go tearing around at night is something scandalous. A man is going peaceably home and one of these narum-skarum posts cannons up against him and leaves him in such a condition that, if he is able to find his own door, he is probably unable to explain how hs got there. And so it is that mistrust and suspicion are sown in a family. If there were any decent law here, we know one ruffianly specimen of this class we should issue a summons against. It is a pillar-box, and is supposed to stand on the comer of the street which we at (present make famous by living. But, doss it stand? Not much —in night, anyhow. We have endeavored to tsaoh it a lesson onoe or twice, but in vate. Last time we tried we stayed in for three Weeks afterwards. - We are sorry to have to make such an accusation against what ought to be a respectable feature of the street, but we are constrained to do it. We believe it drinks. If we only, bad those New Zealand magis* trates over here, we fanoy we could get damages enough from the corporation to retire Upon for injuries sustained through the pillar-box alone. But there is no justioe in this oountry. -