TELEGRAMS.

Southland Times, Issue 9390, 2 December 1886, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(PER PEESS ASSOCIATION.) AUCKLAND, Deo. 1. At tho City Schools Committee meeting a resolution was carried that separate school accommodation be provided at once for the purpose of bringing into practical operation the compulsory clause ef the Education Act, and that a truant officer be employed. The mission schooner Southern Cross reports all quiet at tho various islands. At the Police Court to-day Eiward Leydon ph-aded guilty to falsely representing hiinaelf to be a bona fide traveller at the Waitemata Hotel on Sunday last, and was fined L 5 aud costs. It is stated that Mr Owen, contractor, of Sydney, has entered into a contract to finish the Kaihu Valley railway (16 miles) from Darguviiio to tSaibu Bush". The price is between L 50,000 and L 60.000. The line will open up valuable country. WELLINGTON, Dec. 1. The Premier, Sir S. Scout, haa addressed a letter to the Premier of Canada, directing his attention to the absence of interchange of trade with tho Dominion, and has also addressed a circular to the various Chambers of Commerce in this colony suggesting that stops should be taken to fost^Buch trade. The Customs duties collected at the principal ports for November were as follows :— Auckland, L 21,942 ; Wellington, L 17,596 ; Lyteliton and Christchurch, L 17.916; Dunedin, L 23,191. Total for the colony, L 99,380. Corresponding month last year, 7:100,60$. Ti,e i.esr duty for £ioVf-mbdr 'was ! — Auckland, L 1056 ; Wellington, L 44 8; Christourcb, L 909 ; Dunedin, 1087. Total for the colony, L 4813 ; for the same period last year, L4B76— deficiency on the Estimate, for eight months, L47G9. ,NEW PLYMOUTH, Dec. 1. Tbs decree in (he case of the Harbour Board v. the Sinking Fund Commissioners was settled according to Judge Ward's judgment yesterday in tho Supreme Court. This morning the Harbour Board had refunded them ;by the Judges railway the sum of L 20,000, which goes towards tho construction of certain works. NAPIER, Deo. 1. The first wool sale this soaaon was held today,when Hoadley and Co. and the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co. offered 1000 bales. Good prices "were realised, the attendance being large and the bidding brisk, News of fall in London market did not reach here until after the sale, In the Supreme Court to day an important case relating to the liability of aheriffs was heard. 'Thomas, the Sheep Dip proprietor, in 1884 had as agent one Shephard who was sued for a balance of account, judgment being given for L 196, k\l but L3G was paid prior to November, 1885, when Thomas caused a writ ;o be issued. The sheriff here found ihe goods and chattels of Shepaard were secured nnder a bill of sale lov a loan of L2OO, part of which had been •apaid at the time of tho issue of the writ. I ' Che sheriff did not execute the writ on < ihe ground that the goods were not seiz- i ible, being covert by the bjll of sale, aed. i i

secondly, because, if seized and sold, he considered they wonld rio.t have more than satisfied the holder of the bill of sale. The plaintiffs alleged that it was the duty of the sheriff io^ execnte the warrant because part ; o£ the debt having, ' been repaid Sfrftphard had a^. saleable^in-: terest which would have been realised. The defence was chiefly upon inviolability of goods protected by bill.of sale, and it was also pleaded that the sheriff was justified in considering the value ; of the furniture insufficient to do more than satisfy tbe balance due on tbe bill. The Chief Jnstice, who tried the case without a jury, eaid tbo law in New Zealand, as interpreted according to mode of prooedure, was different to that in England, where an interest in chatttb under a bill of sale could not be seized except in case of partnership, in New Zealand it wag the duty of the sheriff to eei2s &ueb interest on behalf of the judgmeat credi tore and neglect to do 60 was at h : <B peril. His Honour, however, gavo ja^ftment for defendant on the ground that he was fully satisfied that no loss occurred to plsiutiffe through non-execution of tha writ. The evidence showed that Shephard was hopelessly bankrupt, with no in^ass, and if the goods held under the bill bad been sold ibe proceeds would not have done more than have satisfied the holder of the bill. Costs were graoted on the lowest scale. It was stated that this was the first time the question had been raieed io New Zealand. OHRISTCHURCH, Dec. 1. The report presented at the annual meeting of the North Canterbury and Ashburtnn Charitable Aid Biard to-day etated that th^re were 370 persons rece viDg relief, besides 190 children in Industrial schools. Mr W. J. Woodward, who left Christchuruh for Kimberley, writes from that ijoldfiold, saying that the gold obtained up to the present time haa been unearthed at a cost of LSO an ounce. Nearly all tbe goldseekers from Christchurch have aold off their belongings and gone back to Dorby. This morning a saddler'a shop at Lincoln, b. longing to P. F. Finn, was burned down. It was insured for L 250 in the Phoenix office. Ou Saturday evening a seven-roomed honse at Springaton, belonging to Mra Mary Elizabeth Smith, was destroyed by tire. It was insured for L 275 in the Royal office. The furniture, which was destroyed, was insured for L2OO in the Equitable. There have lately been complaints of children being seen in a state of intoxication, and the police have decided to take proceedings against two publicans for supplying liquor to boys. TIMARU, Dec. 1. At the annual meeting of the South Canterbury Charitable Aid Board it was decided to tako legal action against the Wai mate Oouacil ior recovery of their contribution. DUNEDIN, Dec. 1. Necklace is scratched for the Dunedin Cup. Captain Edie wa9 this afternoon the recipient o£ an illuminated address and signet ring on the occasion of his successfully bringing up the b.s. Mararoa to Duaedin.