WELLINGTON ITEMS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 234, 28 November 1900, Page 2

WELLINGTON ITEMS.

-~ # [PBR PUUBS ABSOOLATIOH.) 4 Wklumoww, November 27. Judgment was given by the Objet i Justice to-day in Bonnatyne tad C*. v. Collector of Customs. The aotioa was brought fer recovery of .£BOO paid I as a poll tax on three Chinese MUMS . whodtserted from the steamea ladrai lenu and evaded recapture. Hit i EoiiOur held that piymeut had Ml i been voluntary under mistake «f law, i and defendant having paid the atoaey , uver to tkelraury ootid not baeood. , A meeting of citizuu wee keld tail 3 afternoon to consider what etepe, if t any, should be taken to weleome bade » the members of the First Ooattageat returning by the Marieek OaUb trJw wid disembark at Duaedia. Am ti k uncertain whether the 43 North likuai men aboard will wow on together frees r Otago, or find their way borne in twee ,_ and threes after their arrival, the) „ meeting did not make any etnaf* , moots, If it transpires that the whole of the North Island mat an «—«'■* back via Wellington at ooe timejaadS n it is felt desirable that a public reoep- , tion should be tbesa, tas) J Mayor will call anotuer mtiMnf . I'tiQ writ in (wauection wttb cat lh " vacancy in the iepr«aotatioa of the ld Northern Maori District, oaueed . ti through the bankruptcy of Mr. Heaa „ Heke, will be issued in a few dan. ff Mr. iiloomfield, B.M. at Bay ef j. Islands hat been appointed retaraiaf officer.

The trial waa continued at .tat Supreme Court to-day of Mary Header* wn on the charge of having murdered Mary Luke by the perforsaance of aa illegal operatisn. Toe audiod witnesses called by the Oroira ware aadar examination all day, taair evideooa being of the usual kind ia TffHitv with such ease*.

At a meeting ef shareholders to-aigU of the Gear Meat Cbmpany,r«eelutioaa passed at a previous meeting iaenaiag the Company's capital wereeea&naed. The Chairman explained that the dividend for this year would be apoa £46,000, not on the increased oaattaL for the raising of which aataarityaaj twea givea.