WELLINGTON NEWS.

Waikato Times, Volume XLI, Issue 3346, 7 December 1893, Page 7

WELLINGTON NEWS.

fBY TELTSGKAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION,] ;' i. ' Among the applicants to the Benevolent Trustees for relief was a .naturalised Chinamahiof 67, who had been; 43 years in New Zealand, and who had lost'caste with the other Cbinamen by cutting his hair, and had a wife jand; daughter dependent on him. The trustees gave him rations for a month and the man said if he did not get work by then he would go up country for it.

The first case under the new Licensing Act came before the BenGh to-day, the 'licenseeiof the Albion Hotel being charged with supplying liquor to a child under 13. Counsel said there was a general impres* sion in the trade that the Act did.not come in foroetill March. The R.M. said fie, would not enter up a conviction, but the defendant mustpay' j the-'costs, f and'the trade could take this as a warning. The N.Z. Shipping Co. has chartered the 8.8. Mashona, ; which leaves Capetown to«morrow for Auckland and Wellington to load wool; etc., for London. '»" 'X The case in which Mrs Ellen Blake is charged with attempting to poison her husband, Jas. Blake, by administering mercury to. him has been • before ; the Supreme Court aUday;. So far the evidence is similar to that given in the Lower Court. There is still a large nuinber of witnesses to be examined, and the case is not likely to conclude before Friday'.