GENERAL TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 9560, 11 July 1894, Page 5

GENERAL TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

[by tklegkaph.— press association.] ' UiSBOEifE, Tuesday. The Validation Court is doing very beneficial work. Besides the Paretxiafca case titles to eight other blocks of different values have been validated. The judge cannot remit fees under any circumstances, and this is causing discontent. It presses most heavily upon natives who have not sold. Woodvillb, Tuesday. A heavy downpour was again experienced lost night, an inch ana a-half of rain

having fallen in four hours. This resulted in another heavy slip on the Gorge line. Wellington, Tuesday. Messrs. John Roberts, George McLean, and Harris Hastings, of Dunedin, waited on the Premier this morning and urged that assistance should be given to provide exhibits at the Hobarb Exhibition, which opens on November 15. The Premier asked the deputation to pub their request into writing, when he would submit the matter to his colleagues for favourable consideration, Curistchukch, Tuesday. At the Supreme Court to-day, Mr. Justice Denniston gave judgment in an application for permission to employ G. Harper us clork, which was opposed by the Canterbury Law Society. His Honor said he saw no reason to doubt the good faith of the applicant, or to justify him in concluding that the ground of the objection by the Law Society was sufficiently warranted by facts to oblige him to forbid the applicant from earning, a livelihood in the only way under the circumstances open to him. The Cust Railway Station was broken into on Sunday evening, bub the thieves obtained only a few shillings in coppers. In the bankruptcy sittings of the Supreme Court to-day, the discharge of Robert Noonan, hotelkeeper, was suspended for four months, on account of his books nob having been properly kept. Donrdin, Tuesday. News has been received of the death of William Walbor Cargill, eldest son of the late Captain Cargill, leader of the Otago Settlement, and the first superintendent. The deceased, who died in Paris, was an eminent banker.. He was manager from its commencement of the Bank of Western India, which, under his direction, extended its operations until it became the wellknown Oriental Bank Corporation. Mr. Cargill retired early in 1860, when it was in the zenith of its fame. He afterwards entered the Imperial Parliament. By the decision of Mr. Justice Williams in the Clutha licensing case, that the number of wholesale licenses cannot be increased, it is believed bbab a complication may arise. Up to the present, three of last year's licensees in Dunedin have nob yet taken out licenses, and as the new application made is likely to be granted, one of the old licenses must be refused if all apply. • . ■ A fire broke oub this afternoon in a building, used for drying oilskins by A. Thompson, sailmaker, of Princes-street. The fire is supposed to have been caused by a dressing pot boiling; over. Thompson's stock is insured or £500, and the building for £300 in the Norwich Union Office. : "' f /'ImnsBOARGiiiL, Tuesday. The funeral, with military " honours, of the late Dr. Galbraith's: son,', surgeon of the Ciity Guards, was largely attended.