INTERPROVINCIAL

Dunstan Times, Issue 1044, 21 April 1882, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL

After a three days’ trial, Mikare Te Papapa, who stabbed another Maori to the heart in a drunken quarrel on ■‘‘he Oxford racecourse, Waikato, some months ago, was brought in last night “Guilty of tnau■slauihter” hythejuy, hut recommended to mercy'. Judge Gillies disregaided the recommendation, and sentenced the prisoner to penal servitude for life. The people working at the wreck of the Wind' x at Kaipara discovered another body ■close to where the Ronas boat came ashore. On tfee remains were a white shirt and blue knitted socks. The body had been covered witk sand. It was first discovered by some

Maoris’ dogs scratching the sand. The body of Charles Lee, drowned ou Good Friday, was found at Stakes’ Point.

The land claims before the Royal Commission on the Volunteer land claims number 1500 About one in 75 was granted. Thu Commission leave for Taranaki on Tuesday, ami thence go to Wanganui, Sergeant Kidd's dismissal is stated tn be •owing to the Commissioner discovering that ■Kidd had forwarded an article in the Free Press reflecting on police management to Napier for republication in the Najiier newspapers.

Measl-s is spreading in the city of Auckland, it is believed through cases introduced by one of the mail steamers. £27,000 worth of shares in excess of the amount available for allotment has been an plied for in the Wellington-Manawatu Railway Company.

At Greytown on Tuesday last a brutal assault, and rape were committed on a school girl 12 vears old. The miscreant was captured this morning.

through the door, and there are indications of its having been rel'ed over and over from the door to a cart, in which it was carried away.

A young Swedish engineer, named Charpentier, who recently arrived, shot himself through the forehead with a double-bar-relled pistol, near Manriceville, on April 17. Death was instantaneous.

An application for a charge of venue in connection with the trial of Te Whiti and Tohu, arrested at Parihaka during the recent West Coast Native difficulty, was made before Mr Justice Gillies in the Supreme Court by the Hon. Mr Whitaker, Attorney-General. Granted to Christchurch.

The prisoner William Hart, who was convicted of rape on a little girl at the last sessions, underwent his first flogging in the gaol op April 17. Charles James Emmett, convicted of attempted rape on a child, was also flogged. The punishment inflicted in ■each ease was deservedly severe.