TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS.

Otago Witness, Issue 1950, 4 April 1889, Page 13

TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS.

The District Court at Invercargill wa» opened on the morning of the 28fch- ult, before Judge Ward. The Crown prosecutor (Mr T. M. Macdoriald), on behalf of the local bar, welcomed his Honor baok to Invercargill, and expressed the hope that he would long, continue to preside over that court with the Bame impartiality, dignity, and distinction as in the past. Judge Ward sincerely thanked the bar for the cordial welcome, and said it had Been a source of great satisfaction to him that in all thecourte over which he had presided the best relations had existed between the bench and the bar. , Ah Set, charged with maliciously wounding Wong Kam Sell at Round Hill, by stabbing him in tha breast, was acquitted. The steamer Wakatu arrived at Lyttelton oo Friday, bringing Henry Offor, one of the crew of tbe kef-ch Florence, which be reports sprang a leak a week previously off Kaikoura, when bound from Lyttelton to Havelock. The crew' attempted to return to Lyttelton, the wind belDg north-east. The wind soon became adverse, and the vessel knocked about till Sunday morning, once getting within 16 miles of Lyfctelton. The pump 3 were choked by the sand ballast, and the men thoroughly exhausted by baling. At daylight on Sunday they beached the ketch close to Kalkoura and got safely to J. 0. M. Weale, formerly editor of the Catholic Times, has commenced proceedings against Archbishop Redwood, proprietor of tbe paper, for recovery of £230 daiaagea for wrongful dismissal. , Forty of the men who arrived at Westport on Monday forthe Cape FoulwJnd contract refused to work, and Will be shipped away by the union. In view of a possible disturbance the Westport police forcawas reinforced by two policemen from Greymoutb. T"he Auckland coopers finally went out on strike on Monday. The masters were willing to pay the increase to the best men, but not to the others. • The former elected to cast in their lot with the strikers. The Canterbury College Governors ou Monday referred the report of the Agricultural School Commissioners to the Agricultural School Committee to consider and report. One of the members of the board, the Hon. J. T. Peacock, read a letter from »n old Canterbury settler now resident in the United States, who said that the agricultural colleges he had seen there were far inferior to that at Lincoln, and that the students got no actual practical experience of agriculture in them. # , The Rev. J. Rooney, Wesleyan missionary to New Guinea, arrived by the Melbourne steamer on Monday. He is accompanied by a native convert, and will make a lecturing tour of the It was rumoured in Auckland on Tuesday that the financial institution interested in Mr J. C. Firth's eight-hours mill had declined to make arrangements to carry on that business any longer, and mail probability the establishment will be closed. Mr Firth has been a prominent colonist for many years, and the failure Jn nw business is generally regretted,