YESTERDAY'S TELEGRAMS

Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 927, 14 June 1877, Page 2

YESTERDAY'S TELEGRAMS

IKTERPROVINCIAL

[PER r-BESS AGENCY.] Auckland, June 13.

An application was made to the Supreme Court to-day for a license which the Court at Kaipara had refused to grant on the grounds that the place was outside its jurisdiction. The Judge said that every license granted by a Court outside its jurisdiction was void. The Waste Lands Board have resolved to ask the Government to hand over 183,000 acres near the southern boundary of the Auckland district. A petition from Tauranga settlers, requesting that 4000 acres be granted on the deferred payment system, will be granted when the land is transferred to the Board. Sixteen similar applications were received. The schedule of confiscated lands lias been sent to Wellington, and it is expected that the lands will be shortly handed over to the Board. A letter from the Secretary for Crown Lands approved of the sale, with modifications, of the land to Mr Vesey Stuart for special settlement. Captain Young has arrived from Rorotonga to superintend the erection of an oil mill, to crush copra here, instead of transhipping it to England. A volunteer artillery corps is to bo established at Onehunga. The funeral of Mr Pilling was largely attended. To-day at a meeting of the City Council, a letter from the Town Clerk, (Jhristchurch, was read, expressing dissatisfaction at the method employed by the Government in deducting portions of the subsidy for charitable purposes, and proposing a meeting of delegates at Wellington. Mr Errington was appointed consulting engineer for the waterworks at a salarv of £l5O. A letter was read from the Colonial Secretary saying that the Government would forward a Bill for making a loan of £25,000, authorised for completing the waterworks. A second charge on a special rat(! to be levied under the Act of IS7O, if the said Bill in prepared by the Council and laid before the House. Napier, June l.i.

At the Supreme Court yesterday, John Cartwright and James Petten were acquitted on the charge of obtaining money by false pretences. Charles Henry Ingle pleaded

guilty to a charge of forging two small cheques amounting together to £6 ss. Hans Petersen was acquitted on a charge of arson. The principal witness against him was a Maori woman married to a white man, and she admitted having been imprisoned six months for stealing a watch. The prisoner received an excellent character from witnesses of undoubted credibility. There was another indictment against the same man for assaulting the same Maori woman with intent, but no evidence was offered upon it, and the Judge directed an acquittal. This morning, Ingle, for forgery, was sentenced to two years' hard labour. The whole day was occupied by the trial of James Neagle and three others for forcible entry of premises that had belonged to Neagle, but which at the time were in possession of Macfarlane on a bill of sale from Nengle to McArthur and Co., of Auckland. The jury found jjNeagle guilty and acquitted the others. Neagie was sentenced to pay a fine of £IOO, in default three months' imprisonment, without hard labour. Wellington, June 13.

The New Zealand Times says it is reported that another difficulty has arisen in connection with the drainage scheme. Mr J. C. Crawford objects to the sewage being discharged into Lyell's Bay, and also to its being carried on to his land, unless deposited at a greater distance and at a higher level than was anticipated. To comply with his demand would add to the estimated outlay for pumping a further charge of £6OO per annum. Nelson, June 13. The City Council have unanimously appointed the Mayor, Mr Everett, to represent them at the Conference of municipal delegates in Wellington. Hokitika, June 13, 5 p.m. The river is now subsiding. No damage has been done. There is a heavy sea on the bar, but a good channel. [from a correspondent of the press.] The Waimate Libel Case. TniAKU, June 13. In the Supreme Court to-day R. A. A. Sherrin, charged with libel, was sentenced to three months' imprisonment. Messrs Stout, Hamerslcy, and White appeared for the prosecutor (Reed, of the Otago Guardian). The Judge, in passing sentence, dwelt at considerable length on the liberty of the press, which he said should be encouraged, but such cases as this he would punish with the greatest severity. The press should expose any matter necessary for the public good, and should criticise public men where necessary without fear, but at the same time should be made to understand that it had no right to inflict wounds out of mere malice. The case created great excitement throughout the R. C. W. Cuming, proprietor of the Waitangi Tribune, in which the libel had appeared, was defended by Mr Joynt, and pleaded "Q-uilty." He was ordered to be fined £IOO, or to be imprisoned till the fine was paid. The amount was at once paid by his friends. William Mitchell, for larceny, was acquitted. J. T. Pain, for embezzlement, was found guilty, and remanded till Friday. Some slight damage has been done to the railway south of Timaru by the late heavy rain.