In reference to New Zealand being represented at the Melbourne Exhibition Sir Julius Vogel informed the Chamber of Commerce that if the Government saw their way to do so they would place a sum on the estimates for a New Zealand court. The chairman is in communica tion with the other chambers. R. Diokison sued the Mornington Tram Company for £ls damages caused by smoke and steam from the engine damag ing his house, but the magistrate decided that negligence had not been proved, the chimney being a proper one

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(By Telegraph.) (Per steamer at Auckland.) SYDNEY, Auo. 10. Parliament is to meet for the despatch of business on the 10th September. Louis Levy, the solicitor, who was con cerned with the advertising tailoring firm in the Keuragong Heights land lottery, has got off with a severe censure by the full court. The Chief Justice was for exemplary punishment, but was over ruled, and the Press and the public generally are crying out against this denial of justice. Government aid to the unemployed is to come to a speedy end. The Premier said to a deputation on Monday that his recent trip to the west had proved to him that there was plenty of work to bo had in the country, and it was not intended that the unemployed should be a charge on the country. The labour bureau had been a failure, and the whole thing would be done away with. The men are much annoyed at this resolve, and threaten to bring pressure to boar upon Sir Henry Parkes, and this he told them they might do.
Captain Stranch, the newly appointed captain of the Olga, has proceeded to Apai to join his vessel. Brisbane, Aug. 10.
