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Evening Star, Issue 4087, 1 April 1876, Page 2

best authority for stating AfrJ. T. Thomson, Chief Commissioner of the Waste Land Board, has been appointed Surveyor-General for the Colony. ' Wanganui boasts of a man who has not slept for six weeks, and is yet. well and hearty. He is going to try and walk 1,000 miles m 1,000 hours shortly. Yesterday was the last day on which claims to register on the electoral roll could • i ? n ?r 3 ’T l i nd 2 20 applications were lodged with Mr Ure during the day. In all 485 applications have,-been made since the beginning of the year. His Honor the Superintendent this morning received the following telegram from Mr H. Howard, who is in charge of the salmon ova in the Arawata;—“ Ova arrived safely. Condition unknown. Will report fully when deposited;”

An old man named James Prescott was charged at the City Police Court this morning with committing a rape on his niece, seven years old. The charge was adjourned for seven days. It was stated, by the police that the case was a very bbd one.

An old offender nauied James Bryan was received into the gaol yesterday under sen tence on the 30th ult-., at Tokomairiro, by Mr Maitland, R M., to one calendar imprisonment with hard labor, for stealing one tweed vest and two pairs of socks from the store of John C. Bannatyne, of Waihola. At the Resident Magistrate’s Court, Port Chalmers,: this morning, before Mr 'Mansford, R.M:, Patrick O’Connor, for drunken-v ne|S, was fined ss, with the-usual alternate; and for using indecent and abusive language, towards Mrs Healey, in Mount' street, last night, he was further fined L 5, or > - i n default four weeks’ impjfobmnent, with hard labor.

Mr Ormond, Superintendent of Hawke’s •Bay, has found himself in a difficulty. All the land in his Province open for special settlement purpose is absorbed, and yero he wants more for meeting the requirements of bona fide settlers. There is plenty of laud available, but the Superintendent can only set it aside for special settlement with the consent of this Provincial Council. Ho cannot consult that body in the regular manner, as the Council is prohibited from meeting, so he has issued a circular to the individual members, asking their assent to setting aside 5,000 acres in the vicinity of Woodville. If, as no doubt will be the case, the M.P.C.’s individually agree to this, he will take it as sufficient authority. The District Court sat this morning, to . his Honor Judge Bathgate to deliver judgment in the case of Calcutt v. Hepburn, an action to recover land required for railway purposes, held before his Honor and Messrs J. T. Thomson and A, • Morris, assessors. His Honor said the award-of the--Court was that the amount of compensation payable by the Government to Hepburn is 1*625, the claimant to be liable for coats. Dming a discussion that ensued Mr Haggitt said it had leaked out yesterday that the Court intended to award only L6OO, which called forth a remark from Mr. Stout, that it was very wrong of Mr Calcutt or anyone else to obtain such information from the Court. Mr Calcutt then jumped up and said he was not the individual who had, appertained. the amount of the award, but his Honor • remarked that Mr Calcutt had the presump-' tion to ask him yesterday What : amount would be given, though without getting satisfied. He (his Honor) would not think of acceding to such a request, and whatever member of the Court had divUlg d the amount had committed a great wrong. Mr Haggitt said Mr Calcutt merely wanted the information to telegraph to head-quarters, but that it was hot that gentleman who had ascertained the amount of the judgment.

We have to acknowledge the receipt of the ‘Evangelist ’ for April. A meeting of the Leith Lodge 1 0.0.F, will be held on Monday evening, at 8 o’clock. The Green Island Municipality notify that the Court of Appeal will sit on Monday, at 7 p.m. The second quarter of the All Saints’ Grammar School is announced to commence on Monday, 3rd inst. e We have received the ‘ New Zealand Magazine’ for April, and shall notice its contents in due course. The Halfway Bush Ro&d Board voters’ list is open for inspection during this month, at the Wakari School-house. The Monthly District Degree Meeting of the I 0.0. F, will be held at the Oriental Hotel oh Tuesday evening, at 8 o’clock, The Young Men’s Breakfast Meeting will be held to-morrow (Sunday) at 8 a.m., in the large room over Mr George street. On Monday week the farewell"soiree to the Rev. F. W. Isitt, and introduction of Rev. W. Reall, will be held in the Wesleyan Church, Fort Chalmers. . . r ?