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Evening Star, Issue 4151, 16 June 1876, Page 3

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

;, &VBJtqAiioiiL, June 15. ■ Great complaints are made here about the inconvenience caused by three members of the Southland Waste 1 anda Board being absent as members of Parliament. At the weekly meeting to-day only ; one member beside, flic Chi® Commissioner was preaeht, \ and nb businesacould be transacted. .

Timabu, June 15. At tlje, circuit, sitting; of, the Supreme ; Court, before Jqdgo. Johnson,johnson, James Moon alias Wallace, charged with stealing from the WaimUte Hotel,' pleaded. gnilty, and ■ was .sentenced to seven years’ imprisonments John Duncan, for stealing from the person,' at Waimate, pn being foupd guilty, received a sentence of eighteen months. Andrew Smith HoocT was found 51 guilty of stealing from the person, at Waimate, .and received ';CsafltSnce’of njhe montirn. . Charles fcikes 'alias Skinner alias Stokeswas found guilty ■of foxing and...uttering at Waimate, and sentenced to ‘ eighteen months’ ’ imprison! ment. In passing , sentence! on Moon, his Honor said that prisoner was clearly one of those men .who was dangerous to society ; and-that he would be trifling with the administration of justice if he did not pass upon him a: heavy sentence of penal servitude. It was such cases as his that should be made exemplary. He had been'convicted on several occasions, but had neglected to take warifihg; He would consign him to penttlseiVitudefor a considerable time, and he would tell h;m .t&at people of his kind would not find that they were at liberty after 'oonrictioif tb praise. what was called * ‘ goverhment' 3 stroke,| ’ for a system of punishment had been inaugurated at New Plymouth; which would make men, he trusted, consider carefully before they imperilledtheir liberty ae the prisoner had done; Thd in the; future, for serious ‘offences, would be very different from what had been inflicted hitherto in those mansions John Mahoney to seven years’ penal servitude for forging and uttering six cheques of various amounts, his Honor remarked that such crimes were induced by the carelessness of persons in taking cheques from people whom they did not know. He should dis-' allow the costs of prosecutor in each case.—. James Everest' jwell known to the Otago police) was acquitted of larceny.

WxLtojfoioN, June 16. It is not known yet who are -fo move and second the address in rbply. It is to be! settled this evening. Mr Fitzherbert was presented to the Governor this morning and his appointment as Speaker duly confirmed. • A meeting of the Past Provincial Grand Masters of Independent Orders of Oddfellows was convened by the Grand Master last .evening for the purpose of forming a committee tp make amendments and offer ruggestions re the Friendly Societies’ Bill. It was resolved that the other Friendly to.wn he requested, to co-operate with them and form ’ one committee, with power to Hidd. tootheir number, they to receive all delegates from the various lodges

so aAto, them with jiheir own end forward the whole to theCfolonirl Secretary. Circulars will be distributed amongst all the societies'. ' . *

Grahamstown, June 16.

A telegram has been deceived, by Dr Kilgourfrom Sir G. Grey stating that circumstances rendered it requisite that he (>ir George) should sit for City West.

(From our own Correspondent)

Clyde, June 16. .At the meeting of the Political League held on Wednesday there were present Messrs Hazlett, M.P.G., Naylor, and Sims, representing Clyde ; Messrs Myers, Sanson j and - Coleman, Alexandra; and Messrs M'Quinnis, Webb; and Iversen, the west bank of the Molyneux. The met ting, after questioning the conduct of the Cromwell branch of the League in adopting a resolution re boundaries of Provinces, without consulting the other parts of the Dunstan district, acted inconsistently by adopting resolution against abolition. Your correspondent, however, can safely say that the resolution neither expresses opinion of the district nor the intelligence of the meeting. Messrs Naylor, Theyers, Coleman, and Sims voted and spoke against it. The * Dunstan Times ’is silent on the subject, and I am informed is waiting igie result of the next meeting, to be held on the 21st inat. It is the tale of the tailors of Teoley street repeated.