TO-DAY’S TELEGRAMS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1398, 4 November 1886, Page 3

TO-DAY’S TELEGRAMS.

„ The Great dam oan Land Case. r Auckland, Nobimber 4 j Advices received from Fiji state thst an j appeal on behalf o' Mcirthur and Co 3 has been lodged In the great bamoan land dispute. s Uttering a Forged Cheque. , John Gram Forsyth, charged with , uttering a forged cheque f>r £8 5s km w--1 log the same to be f urged has been comi miited for (rial at next criminal seasons, 3 il i is the prisoner who was brought over , from Sidney wbh Cafftvy end Penn. The Great Barrier Case. It is stated that Mr Uudton-William on ’ Crown Prosecutor, obtained an interview with the girl Sarah Cleary, all's Grace Graham, now in Mount Eden gaol charged with being accessary after the fact in the Great Barrier murder. M • Napier, counsel for Penn end the girl, has sent a highly indignant telegram to the Minister for Justice drawing his attention to the circumstance. The late Puke Te Ao, M.H R. Wellington, November 4. The Native Minister has gone to Otaki to be present.at the funeral of the late Puke Te Ao. Deportation Ofßecidivistes. The Governor baa recoi*od from the Secretary for the Colonies a copy of a despatch from Viscount Lyons to Earl Rosebe’-v. "relating to an interview with .VI. De Freycinet on the subject of reccidlvistes being rent to New Caledonia. Lord Lyms reminded M. De Freycinet that the feeling In Australasia against the proposed deportation was as in’ense aa ever. M Da Freycinet wonld give no assurance for the fulure and said that New Caledonia and its dependencies were, so far bfck as November last, designated as places to which recidivisms might .be relegated, and events had now occurred which rendered it very Important that recourse should he had to them for that purpose, and that a proposal had been made by him (M. De Freycinet) to the Imperial Government which had it been accept: d would have put an end to the transportation of French criminals to the Pacific. The interview ended with Lord Lyons entering a fresh protest against the transposition.