WELLINGTON NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 121, 1 June 1901, Page 3

WELLINGTON NEWS.

THIEVING. By Telegraph—Press Association. Wellington, last night. Charles Palmer was to-day committed for trial for theft of j£lß, tho property of a man with whom he had apparently been on a drinking bout. George Edon, alias Hr Heed, who had forged the name of Mr Percy Smith, ox-Survoyor-Genoral, to a number of cheques which he negotiated at Pctone and Hastings, pleaded guilty, and was remanded to the Supreme Court for sentence. SUDDEN DEATH. Robert Webster, for oight years butcher on tho Gothic, died suddenly of bronchial pneumonia. A coincidence of the man's death is that when a telegram was sent to his brother in Christchurch announcing the fact, tho reply came back that he, too, had died suddenly. LABOR DISPUTE. The book-binders’ and paper-rulers’ dispute, which rccontly occupied the attention of the Conciliation Board, has been referred to tho Arbitration Court. MINING EXPERT.

A civil action was heard by the Chief Justieo to-day, in which John B. Blaine, of Wellington, mining export, claims .£467 as wages and disbursements from John Craig McKcrrow, merchant. The statement of claim sets out that the plaintiff was employed by defendant for 209 weeks, at JM per week, as prospector and assistant in mining ventures, and that tho balance of H23S 6s Gd is still due. Tho plaintiff also claims to have paid away .6262 on defendant's behalf. Tho statement of defence gives a general denial to the plaintiff’s claims, and also denies that plaintiff is cntitlod to call himself a mining export, alleging that his mining knowledge has boon acquired during tho period he was in defendant’s employ, and that this employment ceased in April, 189 S. Defendant claims that Blaine is indebted to him for sums amounting to .6823, which ho desires the Court to recognise as a set-off. The case is unfinished. MR AYRES. Mr Ayres, who lost his life in the Grand Ilotol fare, was formerly in tho bank at Brisbano, and later on at S.ydnoy. He eamo to flow Zealand some four or five years ago, and his position as recognised by tho bank was that of Sub-Inspector. He was unmarried, and'was 42 years of ago. THE DUKE. A mossage from Woodvillc states that between four and five hundred Hawke’s Bay and Wairarapa Natives loft there this afternoon by special train, cn route to Rotorua.