THE ORETI CASE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 6186, 14 March 1888, Page 3

THE ORETI CASE.

[Per Pqksb Association. J WELLINGTON, March 13. The case in which W. Robertson, master of the steamer Oreti, claims the sum of .£626 17s 6d from the vessel, as wages and disbursements, was concluded in the Admiralty Court to-day, judgment being given for the claimant, and the settlement of the questions of account being referred to the Registrar, and with him a merchant versed in shipping matters, to ha selected by counsel for both sides. The question of costs was reserved. The claim of Gregory and others, in the same case, against the vessel, for wages, amounting to nearly £400, was also called on, and judgment was given for the claimants, the same course to be pursued in the question of accounts, as in the former case.

Lord Brassey, in The Times, says the < capabilities of the coloured races are nowhere seen to greater advantages than at Sierra Leone. They supply the official staff of the Government. A coloured barrister of marked ability is the leader of the bar, and makes a professional income of a year. I

The celebrated Aylesford library is about to be removed from Packington j Hall, Warwickshire, and it will be sold at ! Christie's on Feb. 13. This library includes a rare and splendid collection of ancient books, many early Bibles, and a very fine series of County histories, as well as the first four folio editions of Sbakspero. ; Every infant 'born at Rome oa New » Year's Day and christened Leo or Leoine j is to receive from the Jubilee Committee a, I savings book with lOOf deposited. t