WELLINGTON, Thursday.

Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1803, 26 January 1884, Page 2

WELLINGTON, Thursday.

Mr E. J. Yon Dadellzn is gazetted Deputy Registrar Geneial for the colony. Mi" J. H. Richardson has been appointed accountant to the Government Insurance Department. Fine weather and light winds are repot ted as pievailing to-day in all parts of the colony excepting Nelson where heavy rain is falling. Lady and Miss Jervois left by the Hinemoa this afternoon for the Bluff to join His Excellency the Governor in his projected tour to the West Coast Sounds. The Aorangi takes five hundred carcases of fiozen mutton from Wellington. She is expected to sail for Lyttleton tomorrow night. The Agent General telegraphs urder date of 23rd instant, the sailing of the following steamers with immigrants :— Ruipehu, 132 for Auckland ; Florida, 248 lor Otago. Friday. The New Zealand Shipping Company' 3 new steamer Aorangi sailed for Lyttelton at 6.30 this evening. At the Supreme Court to-day, the case of Han is v. Greatrex and son, claiming £500 damages for alleged wrongful dismissal, was heard. Theplaintiffhadbeenen gaged in England to come out and manage the New Zealand businessof Chas. Greatrex and Sons, saddlers, (England) Walsall, at Wellington. He commenced duty here in March last, and was summarily dismissed at the end of May, for alleged misconduct bordering on insanity. The question for the special jury was : Was the plaintiffs behaviour so eccentric and so ridiculous as to justify instant dismissal. The jury found for the plaintiff, assessing damages at £330, with costs. The gross tonnage of vessels entered inwards at Wellington during 1883 exceeded that of 1882 by 100,000 tons.