..'-.'..»■ 7,(.l ; -_iil | '-KE.-3S ASSOCIATION.) AUCKLAND, Wednesday. • Salads, a sailor belonging, to the ship Oxford, has been committed tor trial for aSB-iblt : ng PI itt, the steward. { It is proposed tq hold a pubiic meeting re tiie '.conduct of the governors of the Gframhiar School in respect to the head master and Grammar School affairs. 'One.. "hundred and thirty-six patients were in 1 the Honolulu Small-pox Hospital when the mail steamer left. Three Europeans have died. WELLINGTON, Wednesday. At the meeting of the Harbor Board to day a letter was read from Mr Errin-gton, of Auckland, on behalf of the pateutee and builder of the patent iron floating graving dock, London, offering Jo undertake the .construction in Wellington of a dock capa ble ot taking in steamers 450 feet long by 45. feet beam,. or ironclad .cruisers _of the "Invincible" class. The lilting power would be"*sooo'itons, and vessels of the largest size could be luted in 2| hours and lowered iv three-quarters of an hour. Tiie writer states' thatj if the - ' Board decided to have the dj-Scjk it could be done withinS^affjgeriod of 18 months. Several members^b'f the Board expressed a - hope' that'the time would soon' come,- when the Board would teriously consider the que^tibn of constructing a dock, but it was agreed that at present no eteps could tie taken in 'that direction. A letter to that effect has been sent to Mr- Eirington. ' The Minister of Public Works left for Dunedin this evening. .., x A eHRISTCHUROH,7WEiixESDAT. •Mr Whiteford, R.M., gave judgment this morning in the tot-ilisator case.; He said the Bench were against the defendants in that the former lield the racecour«e to be a public place within the meaning of the Act. He considered, hoy.-over,- that it would be straining the' provisions' of the Actlto pronounce the totulisator an illegal ipaehine for the i purpo&e of betting.. The ! totalisator might be looked upon as merely a recording machine, or large open betting book, which all persons could use, and after the last race tbe whole of the money invested was paid back, less ! a percrntage deducted for the services of tlie proprietors •of 'the itiachine. The case \yould therefore bfe 'dismissed^. The solicitor for the prose ' cuiib'n 'gave notice of appeal. '",'■■ ir .'.' .'^ , ■ -• DUNEDIN, WeUxN ESDA Y. 