BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Evening Star, Issue 3940, 11 October 1875, Page 2

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Gisborne, October 10. * )n Saturday the fiercest storm in the recollection o the oldest inhibitants passed over Gisborne. Buildings were unrooted, and in vine cases blown to the ground. Scai cely a h.iul ventured out in the streets durian the ■lay. A cutter which was moored to a high tree on the river bank tore the tree up by the tber casu.dties are reportid, ami ences are lying flat on the ground in all dirre-tio.-a A. nuinh-r of d. owned cattle, sheep, oi i pigs wen floating down the river l J *ora. ! uke-akuku (a -utiv ). in trying to rescue hj » i.orse timing a heavy fresh, was nearly drowned.

a Maori, who wm recently imprisoned for i ring two tmgerii off the h-nd of an arresting on table,►and swallowing the same, has escaped iro.o the 10. k-up, across the river. .ne police .00 trying to hunt him d wn.

A pnze pugilistic fight, in European style came etf between P,ite Prou and Te Hah 1 notorious v/bmamau (lately imported)’, rear Muugaca, for L.25 aside. Jos ChiusnisQ t»as oonqueied, and has sine# left the district.

T . n , , , WKLUKttTOH, Octobei 9. Ins C iimm l Sittings oi the Supn-me Court ■‘iii.loaded last night at eleven <’clock, when cdiza Smith was acquitted of pe jury afier tmce nays' trial, during which the most baieowed perjury wae ooium.tted. Mr Buckley ieb nded tlie girl In addressing the jury, ha « ud the present e<s» had arum out of ciitioism oy a portion of the Press after the con melon 01 Cameron’s trial, and his conviction Uei session, for rape ou this girl i'.liza .'smith. This eVBe (be said) was praeUeally auetim feral of

Oubww for as the proMautor attempted to prove the offence had never been committed. A man called Jeff*, a Medemaa, was the principal prosecutor. His conduct, he told the Court, seas actuated by “ #tiiot moral principle?. ” Of hi# evidence, Mr Buckley paid hat Jeffs and Mrs Cameron (wife of the convict) had for week# concocted this ease; that JetTs’s evidence was contradictory in every point, and wa? so urterly contemptible that ifc could not bo credited. The Chief Justice, in summing up, said, with reference to Jeffs, that his evidence was unsatisfactory, and, whether fp'm design or inadvertence, ho had gi ven • vide oe at variance with facts. _Afie : the jury had given a verdict of not guilty.” his Honor directed certain of the witnesses for the pros' cation to be brought, efore him. He told them he Iv-kI the power to commit them all for trial for per jury, but would leave it to the Crown to decide what steps should be taken with regard to them, ilia Honor eorelnded by saying that he feared the foolish observations of some ignorant writer in the Press had a great deal to do with this prooecutien. The sentence passed on (’aineiOß. tor r*pe, inctend '■£ being too heavy, wae far tee light,