LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VII, Issue 1026, 28 May 1880, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

[from our own correspondent.] NAPIER. This Day. At the District Conrt yesterday, His Honor Judge Kenny gave a decision in the case of Ellis v. Laurenson, tried some weeks ago. The defendant, who is a night watchman, had drawn the Grand Ducliess in a sweep at the Caledonian Hotel, on the Racing Club's Napier Handicap, and agreed to sell his chance for £25 to plaintiff who is one of the brewing firm of Kobjohns and Ellis. The horse started, and became entitled to £100. Defendant thereupon repudiated the transaction with Ellis. The decision turned upon the point whether the English Lotteries Act was in fprce in this Colony. His Honor, in an elaborate judgment held that it was, and gave judgment for defendant with costs. WELLINGTON. This Day. The Governor's speech to-day is expected to. be unusually, brief. It will express the disirableness of a short session under the present circumstances of the colony, and will intimate that Ministers will do their utmost to facilitate and expedite the despatch of business by introducing measures as early as possible in the session. After the formal business, the House will adjourn till Tuesday. Colonel Trimble will move the address in reply, but who is to second it is not yet known. The City Council last night passed a resolution deprecating the stoppage of sudsidies during the time fixed by the Financial Arrangements Act, urging reconsideration of the matter, and calling upon the Wellington members to support the position taken up by the Council. The Supreme Court, in Banco yerterday, refused to make absolute a rule for habeas corpus in the case of Waimata Parata, one of the Maori prisoners now in Dunedin gaol. The ground of refusal was that the prisoner himself had not given his concurrence to the application. David Climie, who made out a scheme for drainage for the City Corporation has served them with a writ for £4731, for commission on the cost of his scheme for wrongful dismissal, and for services in connection with Clarke's scheme of drainage. The Committee recommend the Council to pay £162 15s into Court for the last item of claim, and contest the remainder. AUCKLAND. This Day. At the Police Court yesterday, 'Mr. Bloom, a respectable shopkeeper, was charged with obstructing the police, but the case was withdrawn. He was standing in front of his own shop, when he was told by Constables Ross and Igoe to move on, and refused. They knocked him down, knelt on him and handcuffed him, and dragged him to the station and put him in the cell with two drunkards. Mr. Bloom laid a charge of assault against them, but withdrew it on the promise they would be punished under the police regulations, and made to pay £11 expenses. The Auckland members intend to make a combined attack on the Government early in the session regarding the stoppage of the Railway Reclamation Works. The notice of motion will be tabled on Tuesday. OHRISTOHUROH. This Day. The Lyttelton Borough Council has levied rates on the good sheds on the Gladstone Pier. The Harbor Board refuse to pay, though their solicitor's opinion is that the Corporation can levy. Rewi'a villa residence at Kihikihi is fast approaching completion, and will when finished be an ornament to the settlement. The furniture of the great chief's house is now being selected in Auckland.