NEW ZEALAND TULEGRAMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XVIII, Issue 6099, 4 June 1881, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND TULEGRAMS.

[FRO-M OUR QW>- COKRiKroSDEiCT?] ' HAMILTON, fjrii-iy.--V !No case of scarlatina having" oacurred.in. Hamilton, the Hamilton West Scliobl Com-" mittee have ordered the school to be reopened on Monday. . -I fUNKED PRESS■ ASSOCIATION , ] ■ : . . WBBUIfGTQNi Friday. ! The applications for shares in the West ■Coast Railway -Company CNbrih Island) already considerably exceed the. 5Q;000 re' quired. All the returns from brokers and' : agents are not yet to hand'. A.meeting of the provisional directors is calledfor Monday to take steps for the registration ofthecompany and the allotment of shares Among the despatches received by the Government from the by the : San Francisco and Suez; mails; thm is are-' turn oj the amount of the £5,000;000 loan which has been converted into the 4 per centisc < r i^L stoek - The amount-inscribed is £4,4/6 000 out of £3,000,000, leaving a little more than half a million not converted The released Maori prisoners kit for Taranaki this afternoon. .A deputation from the City Council ■waited on the Colonial Secretary to-da.** with reference to bringing into operation the Contagious Diseases Act. Mr. Djck the whole expense in connection with, the administration of the Act would We to be borne by the Council. He -syould defer, issuing a proclamation until the Council express their willingness or otherwise to bean the expense. The delegates of the County Councils met agaiii to-day. Tlie business transacted, was of an unimportant nature, aud after several notices of motion given the Council adjourned until Friday next, to enable the other representatives to be present. At the Appeal Court in the ease Queen v Moritzon (Dunedin), the Standard Insurance ease, the conviction, was affirmed, and judi'raent ordered to be given at the next. .Circuit Sittings of the Supreme Court in Dunedin. In Mercer v. Queen, the demurrer \yasp?/erruled. Leave was given to plead' within twenty-eight days on' .payment of costs. In; Murphy v. Queen (Christchurch) imminent was reversed, there being a mamiest error. The first and second counts of the indict ment, and the record is to be remitted to the Court below, in order that it may pronounce a proper judumout thereupon. In Kilbirnie ratepayers v. Hutt County Council, the Court held that plaintiffs had good cause of action, and the demurrer ought te be overruled, with costs.