BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Evening Star, Issue 4244, 3 October 1876, Page 3

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Naher, October 2. At the Synod to-day, Archdeacon Harper (Timaru), and the Rev E. C. Stuart (Sydney) were nominated to the vacant bishopric of Waiapu. The choice fell on Archdeacon Harper, who is elected, if he will accept the nomination.

Christchukcii, October 2. In his address to the Grand Jury to-day, Judge Johnston said that at the next session he should take the opportunity of addressing them in reference to any changes in the criminal law. Robert James Thompson, who is undergoing a sentence of two years for forgery, was brought up under a writ* of habeas corpus for a similar offence. He pleaded gniltv. The Judge made some very strong remarks in consequence of the accused being plaoed in the dock in prison clothes. Joseph Garrett, alias Carberry, was sen-i

enoed to fifteen years' penal servitude for robbery with violence, and in pxssing sentence on him his Honor said the offence was only next in degree to that of murder, and he was determmed that the vices of the Old Country should not be in roduced into New Zealand without severe punishment. Fred. Hardy, a new arrival from Sydney, received six months for robbery; William Cassidy six months for robbery on board an immigrant ship on the passage out, Five prisoners were acquitted. Hokitika, October 3. Beats were towed to the wharf for the first time yesterday for three months. Four were towed out yesterday. The Lioness is still towing in, and it is expected that all the vessels will be towed in to day. The Otago brought forty diggers for the Kun:ara rush. (From our own Gorres^ondent.) Auckland, October 2. Judge Gillies, in charging the Grand Jury today, remarked on the usually large number of cases against Natives, namely—five out of seventeen. He also remarked upon the impropriety of employers giving unstamped orders in payment of wages as an attempt to defeat the Stamp Act. Henry Brierly, for an indecent assault upon Ellen Sinclair, a married woman, was sentenced to ten years and two whippings of twentyfive i&shes each time. The Thames' Gas Company have agreed to reduce the price of gas t ■ iys a thousand. At Kawakawa & man nameu Roderick bas been accused of adcunfetering drC£S to a girl in an apple. The ac'r-used uaa escaped.