NEW ZEALAND.

Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1603, 9 April 1879, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND.

[pee pbebs agency.] Auckland, April 9 Supreme Court-

In the Supreme Court to-day Fidgett, convicted of burning stacks, was brought up for sentence. The judge, in passing sentence, said that the prisoner’s whole conduct indicated that ho feared neither God nor man. Sentenced to ten years' penal servitude. The Grand Jury ignored the bill against Thos. William Brown, charged with attempted rape. Ropiti, a Maori, charged with stealing a saddle and bridle, the property of Mr Grace, Native agent at the Waikato, was convicted. Sentence was deferred pending his trial on other charges. The Kaitangata Relief Fund, The Kaitangata committee held their final meeting to-day. The fund amounts to £ISOO clear of expenses. The committee passed a resolution concurring in the plan proposed by the Dunedin committee, and expressed reliance on their care in expending the money, which will be forwarded immediately. A Reported Government Prosecution, It is said that Government intend to prosecute Robert Graham, under the Native Lands Act, for occupation of land at Rotorua. Messrs Hesketh and Whitaker are retained for the defence. The case will open up important questions. Auckland, April 0, The figures for the laud tax in Auckland are completed. It is estimated recent freshes have brought down 7,000,000 feet of timber. Wellington, April 9. The Sydney Exhibition CommissionThe following sums have been voted by the Sydney Exhib.tion Commissioners £2OO for the purchase of specimens of gold and quart*. £2OO for maps showing railways, roads, bush and open country. £l5O for freight to Sydney. The Union Company will carry the goods from Wellington free of charge. £2O was voted to Mr Hackott, of Kelson, for mineral exhibits. It was resolved to ask for :-n estimate for a pillar of coal, twenty-six feet high, from Groymonth, to set up in the N.Z. Court at the exhibition. 1 ho total cost in connection with the Commission is expected to reach £2540. At a meeting of the Sydney Exhibition Commissioners, the chairman stated they had got a promise of £2,000 from the Government. The committee agreed to allow £SO to Captain Thomson of the Bluff to enable him to exhibit

a number of inventions, such as wind and tide gauges, anchors, I oat lowering apparatus, windmi’ls, &c,, &c. Tlic Law Students’ Society. At the first meeting of the new Law students’ Society (VI r Travers, president) the solicitors present promised to aid the members of the society to ob” ; n the use of the Supreme Court in the ever”) Supreme Court. , In the Supreme Couil Peter Newton, for felony and lobbing a diankon man in a hotel, was sentenced to six months 1 hard hat mr. The Judge said the case was not creditable to Wellington. inasmuch aa eudence showed that the prosecutor reeled about, in the middle of the day, from one public-house to another, in a state of intoxication. It was such a case as one world expect to find only on a diggings town, jibe lad Bacon who robbed the Anchor Cods office, was ordered to te released upon his father and mother cnteiing into recognisances of .£IOO each for his subsequent appearance at Com j ;f over required. The Judge said that, although the lad deaoi ved purmhioent, he did did not wish to send him to a p'aco which could only make him worse than he rea r y is. He thought the public interest wou’d be best served by the course pursued. The Governor’s Movements. Governor Eobinson proceeds to the Bluff in the Hiuemoa on Friday, the 18th inst. He will then make a tour of the Otago Provincial district. Ho takes the Lakes in his route, and returns by railway t) Canterbury. The expected trip will occupy three weeks. His Excellency, Lady Eobinson, family, and suite last night attended the Choral Society’s concert. The Manawatn Maoris. Low fever and dysentery are reported to be prevalent amongst the Maoris in the Marawatn district. The Penny Banks. The Government have sent to the Education Boards a supply of deposit books, first ledgers, and journals for distribution free of charges amongst the approved penny banks. Subsequent ledgers and journals will be supplied at cost price. Dunedin, April 9. Emma Hardinge Butter, a spiritualist and free thought lecturer, has left Melbourne for Dunediu to lecture here in room of Mr Bright. Grettown, April 9. E. H. Suntley, a schoolmaster at Kaitara, near Grey tow n, was found dead in a closet this morning. FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] Dunedin, April 9. A four-roomed house in the Valley was totally destroyed by a fire caused by the falling of a kerosene lamp. The building was insured in the New Zealand for ,£BO. The furniture is insured, the office not ascertainable.