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PORT PHILLIP.
By the Shamrock we have received Port
Phillip papers to the 18th instant, being one
day later than our overland communica-
tions. We extract the following paragraphs :
JUDGE WILLIS. — By a private letter, re-
ceived by the last English mail, we under
stand that the investigation of Judge Willis
case has terminated most satisfactorily. The
Judicial Committee appointed by the House
of Lords to enquire into the matter, have
been satisfied that the charges are ground
less. The communication, in addition to
the intelligence that Mr. Willis is about to
commence an action against Sir George
Gippg, states that his Honor is to receive
his fall salary up to the time of the decease
of Sir James Dowling, and since that period
a retiring pension as Chief Justice, to which
he was entitled as the senior Judge in the
colony. — Standard, Jan. 18.
THE "PARKFIELD."— In this vessel, which
was to leave England in September last, for
this province, Mr. J. W. Highett, formerly
manager of the Union Bank, is entered as
a passenger for Port Phillip.
SCARCITY OF WETHERS. — A colonial
trader has been lying in the bay for a con-
siderable time waiting to procure a cargo of
wethers. A party employed for that purpose
has been into the country to purchase a lot
of wethers for the Van Diemen's Land
market, and has returned after an unsuc-
cessful attempt.
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SUPREME COURT.
SITTINGS IN BANCO.
SATURDAY JANUARY 25. — Before their Honors
the three Judges.
BROWN AND OTHERS V. NORTON AND OTHERS.
This was a suit instituted against the defendants
who represent the Bank of Australia, to de-
termine the claim of the plaintiff's to certain
property, the deeds of which had been deposited
with them three years prior to a mortgage of
the same having been accepted in favor of the
Bank by Messrs. Hughes and Honking, to whom
the property originally belonged.
Counsel for the plaintiff, Messrs. Windeyer,
Gordon, and Lowe, for the defendants Messrs.
Donelly, Broadhurst and Fisher.
The Court was occupied the whole of this day
in hearing the arguments of Counsel, and a
portion of the evidence for the plaintiff.
The Court adjourned till Saturday next.
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