WELLINGTON.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 807, 12 June 1879, Page 2

WELLINGTON.

This Day. •So long as the demands for labor on the Corporation work is limited, married men are to have the preference, and still further preference will be given to men with large families. A boat belonging to the ship Pleiades, while taking off a cask of water, suddenly capsized in the harbor, when nearing the ship. .• Captain Setten and the chief officer saw the accident and pluckily jumped into the water and saved the crew; Professor Kirk has been reappointed science lecturer to the Wellington college, at a salary of £400 per annum. Sir Julius Vogel telegraphs that the ship Rakaia has left London, with 295 immigrants, for Wellington and Napier. Dr. Otto Fiusch, a leading European ornithologist, has accepted a mission from the Royal Academy of Sciences at Berlin to explore the islands of Western Polynesia, and is expected to visit this colony in a short time. The charge against Mr. Kinross occupied the Court all yesterday morning, Mr. Sievwright conducting the prosecution in the absence of Mr. Rees. Mr. Sbowe, Clerk of the Legislative Council, and Mr. Mantell, had been subpcenaed to give evidence, but these witnesses pointed out that they were debarred from doing so unless with- the sanction of the Council, other- * wise they had no objection to give evidence. Mr. Sievwright called several Native witnesses, but their evidence was shown to be untrustworthy by documentaiy evidence ; he then said that, owing to some disarrangement of the time-table, a lot of Native witnesses he expected were still at Napier, he therefore, asked the magistrate either to commit the accused, or adjourn the case till after the meeting of Parliament. The magistrate declined to commit the defendant, and said he could not adjourn the case as desired. Finally the case was adjourned till the 17th, so that the case is not likely to be heard much more of. News has been received from Melbourne of the death of W. H. Harrison late editor of the Grey River Argus. It is rumored that Mr. Fritzherbert will not accept the Speakership'of the Legislative Council, as he contemplates taking the Leadership of the House of Representatives. The Education Board show a deficiency of £7,000 after exhausting the grant for this and next year. It is reported that the Maoris have determined to suspend ploughing operations until after the approaching meeting at Parihaka, when they expect further supernatural enlightenment from Te Whiti.