WELLINGTON ITEMS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 4996, 7 July 1894, Page 6

WELLINGTON ITEMS.

[Ps& Pi-ess Association.] WELLINGTON, Jult 6. The Appeal Committed of the Few Zealand Bugby Union has decided, on the question submitted to the Wellington branch Seferees' Association, that the ball should be placed in the scrimmage by the player, not by the referee, and recommends that when a scrimmage is ordered for infringement of the rules, the ball should ba placed in by a player of the non-offending side, otherwise the ball should be placed in by a player of the side having possession. In the Magistrate's Court the cases in which John, Allen, Charles and Hugh Cameron were charged with being the owners -of an illicit still, found at Gollah's Bay, was begun. Mr Skerrett raised the objection that tho Distillation Act, under which the informations were laid, was not the Act under which the defendants should have been brought bef are the Court. Proceedings should have been instituted under the Customs Act. The defendants should be considered to havo been separately charged on each of the five counts. After argument, Mr Gully, for the Crown, decided to proceed at present on only Count 2, charging each defendant with unlawfully mating spirits. When a portion of the evidence had been heard, the cases were further adjourned until Tuesday. At tbe meeting of the City Council tonight the result of the public meeting relative to the Drainage Empowering Bill was discussed. The general opinion of the Councillors was that a majority of the ratepayers had been led astray by the fluency of the principal speaker in opposition to the Council's proposals, without making themselves acquainted with the conditions of the Bill. The Mayor pointed ont that if Clause 24, anticipating tbe co-t'of. connecting private sewers with the main system (to be subsequently recovered from owners) waß rejected, the Council could not carry out the connection of private property, and ownerß would have to pay on the nail. What the Council proposed extended over a period of six years. He moved a motion in that . direction, which was carried.