BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Evening Star, Issue 4090, 5 April 1876, Page 3

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Wellington, April 5. The following telegram was sent to Sir George Grey by the Premier on Monday:— “Am not surprised at your Honor dreading to read the reply to your telegram of March 31st, but I am surprised that after abstaining from reading it you have continued to address telegrams to me officially or personally. I cannot take notice of them. I have, through courtesy, allowed you to address me, though the Civil Service regulations make the Colonial Secretary the proper channel for your communications.”

Auckland, April 5. In the Supreme Court, Mnlvany pleaded not guilty to indecently assaulting Fanny Bowman. The evidence tended to show that complainant brought the assault on herself. He was found guilty, and sentenced to three years’ imprisonment.—Antonio Marco, who pleaded guilty to manslaughter, was sentenced to seven years’; and ffm, Bibb, who pleaded guilty to larceny as a bailee, to nine months’. For the Mount Newton assault, Baird and M*Hroy received a sentence of three years’ each, Donaldson got twelve, and Hodge nine months’. Mr Baratow, R.M., delivered judgment in Secombe’s (brewer) case to-day. It occupied nearly a column of print, and fined defendant iOs and costs. The concluding words of his judgment are :—“I find that defendant, kolding no brewer’s license under any snch Act or Ordinance in force in any Province, i. e., Provincial Act or Ordinance, has been guilty of a breach of the Licensing Act, and must be convicted accordingly, the real intention of the tenth section of the Act qf . 1874 i being that a brewer holding a Provincial brewers license, should there be inch thing in any Province, would not, in addition thereto, require a wholesale license. The eleventh si xrtion enacts that whether he held a brewer’s or a wholesale license under the l ews, he nevertheless must also.be licensed umder the Distillery Act.” The Fire Briga de have presented Superintendendent Hugh es with a gold medal. ' A compromise hj tas been effected in quarantining H.M.S. Pearl. She lies down at Motuhiki, but sen us a boat up at 3 p.m. every day for provisions, one of the watermen being licensed to attend her. The Rev. A. Reul, who is about to leave for Wellington, at Ibis valedictory meeting last night, was pres tented with a gold watch by the members of the Hill street Mutual Improvement Assoc Ration.

I ErBAHAMSTOWN, April 5. The following are 1 he losses by the insurance companies by the Shnortland fire:—Standard, Ll,oooj National, L 700 ; Victoria, - L 560: South British, L3OO. *

{From our own. Correspondent .) Napier, April 3. A petition is in cmpnlation to the Governor asking for the release of a man named Bolls, who was last session sentenced to three years for forgery, ifis relatives here are getting up the petition, hut the majority of the ‘pubhe dont see>, why be should be released.

Tareha, the Native chief, when presented to the Governor at the levte, said he wished to make a remark. He did not wish to be like other f'entlemen presented, who ran in and out like from one hole, to another, he. wanted the Governor to consent to the rrelease of the Native prisoners in the 'Napier Gaol on political charges. The <3 ovemor replied that he was not aware there ivere any such prisoners there, but he would make inquiry. Tareha, on getting outside, said the Marquis was like all other Governors, 4 ‘too much taiho.” The Governor leaves to-ioight, accompanied by Mr Bowen, for Povei ly Bay. The Lydia Howard I troupe have postponed opening until Wednesday.