SOUTHERN TELEGRAMS.

Thames Advertiser, Volume VIII, Issue 2020, 15 April 1875, Page 3

SOUTHERN TELEGRAMS.

(pEB PEBBS AGENCY.)

Wellington, Tuesday.

The 'Ladybird' has sailed for the North. Passengers—Mr and Mrs Tilly and family (6), Mr and Mrs Roberts, Mr and Mrs Lodenson, Mr and Mrs Lane, Mr and Mrs Manson, Messrs Berry, Mallsch, Cray, Mills,. Jeffreys, Shirt, McLellan, Capon, Baker, Olson, Creyk, Brown, Peddie, Thomson, Lineham, Dank, Kuth, Airec, Pin, Nichol, Butler, Barker, Bosselman (2), McNab.

Chbistchubch, Wednesday, 7-20 p.m.

In the Provincial Council this evening, Mr Montgomery stated that the members of the Executive had sent in their resignation to the Superintendent in consequence of the rejection of the Municipal Corporation Revenue Lill. Sir Cracroft Wilson then said that the Superintendent had sent for him after two other gentlemen had refused to undertake the responsibility to form a Government, and had asked him if he would endeavour to form one, to which he had promised to reply before noon on Thursday. Mr Wynn Williams and Mr Wm. Maskell then said they had been successively sent for, but had declined to undertake to form a Government, because, although willing to take office with a new Government, they did not think they enjoyed the confidence of the House to a sufficient extent to justify them in attempting to form a Government. The House then adjourned till 5 o'clock on Thursday.

Uunedin, Thursday, 7.35 p.m.

John Fulham, while engaged in piledriving, reoeived some nasty injuries by the monkey jamming his head against the piles. Be had his jaw smashed and his head bruised, and lies in a very precarious state.—Mr Bathgate, 8.M., has been subpoenaed as a witness in the case Police v. Dodson, the Derby sweep, he being secretary to a land lottery which took place in 1868.—Messrs Eirkpatrick and Glendining were charged at the Police Court by one of their machinists with an infringement of the Female Working Act. The Bench dismissed the case, and expressed an opinion that there had been false swearing on each side. la the esse heard this morning, the Inspector, under the Adulteration of Food Act, v. Oliver, the Magistrate, decided, by the last pro* vision in section four, that sellers of adulterated food or drink are not liable to a penalty if such article has not been previously notified in the Gazette of th e province in which such seller shall reside, to be an adulteration or impure. The two " nots" in the proviso neutralise each other. The Bench stated that the Inspector could never obtain a conviction until the Act is altered.