A case of considerable importance, regard ing the liability of His Honour the Superin tendent, as a common carrier on the railways, occupied the attent.un of the Resident Magis trate's Court yesterday. Judgment was re-

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Sir George Grey is announced to deliver a lecture in the Temperance Hall on Tuesday evening next, on " The Early History of the Colonies, including New Zealand," a subject which cannot but be highly interesting when treated on by one who has had such a lengthened career in the Colonies, and whose ability as a speaker is so well known.
The Zalandia's immigrants appear to have landed in goad time. Nearly all the single girls were engaged yesterday, at wages rang ing from £30 to £40, a number of the single men also finding employment. The remain der of the Zslandia's and the Auckland's immigrants will be open for engagement to day. The Adamant is now overdue at the Bluff, having sailed from London on the 14th July, with 200 immigrants, and advices have been received of the ship Nelson having sailed from London in September for Otago, with 410 souls.
An unpleasant scene took place at the ter mination of the City Police Court proceed ings yesterday. A coloured man, named Dix, was sentenced to 14 daya' imprisonment for a breach of the Vagrant Act, and his wife,' a European woman, bearing a half caste babe in her arms, threw herself on her knees, and frantically implored the Bench to return to her her husband. She screamed until she became hoarse, and had to be forci bly ejected from the Court.
