WELLINGTON.

Otago Witness, Issue 2690, 4 October 1905, Page 34

WELLINGTON.

The Union Company's steamer Mararoa, .Which arrived on the 20th from Sydney, had a yeryrough handling on the trip. A furious gale raged during the passage, the diecks being continually 'flooded. On Monday, 18th, a sea broke clean over the bridge. When off Terawhiti on Wednesday two pert holes were burst 'in, and the ship had to be hove to while the damage was repaired. At W^nsranu; on Thursday morning _Eichard H. Daniels, px-tqwn clerk at Marton, who had pleaded guilty to embezzling : £700 of the' borough's funds, was brought tip for sentence. His counsel stated that prisoner had been borough clerk for three

years, and he had come from Dunedin, where he had carried on the business of a stock broker. Through the failure of the mining- boom he was left with £600 or £700 worth of debts. He was sentenced to one year's imprisonment. Mrs W. R. Williams, who recently gave the V.M.C.A. a section for building in Willis street, of the value of £2500, has increased the area, making the value of the gift £3500. The jury found for plaintiff, with £450 damages, in the cass J- H. Hankins v. the Government Railway Department, in which £1000 was claimed for injuries sustained while driving a trap over a railway crossing at Palmerston North. A number of legal points were reserved. There v/ere 2252 arrivals in the colony and 1438 departures last month, as against 2235 arrivals and 1387 departures in August, 1904. A remarkable evidence of the existing land hunger is that 313 applications were received for two sections of 4700 and 2000 acres respectively in the Wbernside survey district. Eastern Marlborough. tho ballot for which took place on Thursday.

The purchase of 9000 acres of Makerua Swamp land by Dr Chappie and Mr R. M'Nab. M.K.R., for about £100,000, is announced. The land will be cut up into small farms.

The Arbitration Court on Friday had before it a case " involving an application «^f. "The „'Wbrkers' . Coni'p'ensation'- -foiv -Accidents Act, " 1900," in A' ease where ;h& person accidentally killed had 'dependents on him who are not and never have been residents of New Zealand. The case was that of Arthur •Uurlongier, wKo, while in the employ of the Government, was killed by accident, and was stated for the" opinion of the court by the public trustee, the logpl personal representative of- deceased, filing a claim for compensation on behalf of the wife, who lived in Victoria. The' Court reserved judgment. Sneaking at a social on 'the 18th the Premier denounced the proposal to surrender the freehold at its original value as immoral. There" was , looming in the near distance a struggle such as had never been witnessed in this colony." He urged the people, to stand" firm, and not be 'misled into returning -to' Parliarifent those who had so miserably misguided New Zealand in the past. District' Judge Kettle and the Public Trustee have been appointed to act with "Mr H. S. Wardell in holding the inquiry into the case of .the .four Christchurch Postal officials suspended in connection with the voucher incident. A .woman was fined 5s at Feildmg for attenjptingf» to- board a train in motion at' the station on Saturday. The woman had a" narrow escape, falling between the train and the platform. She was rescued by a bystander and a constable.