NEW ZEALAND.

Globe, Volume XXI, Issue 1759, 9 October 1879, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND.

[PEE PEE S 3 AGENCY. 1 WELLINGTON, October 9. Political. There is no longer any doubt as to Sir Q. Grey baring resigned the leadership of his party, and should they again obtain power he will not hold a portfolio, though exercising his personal influence. Supreme Court. Wm. Matheson, for robbing a lodger at Barrett’s Hotel, was sentenced to eighteen months on the two charges. The jury was fire hours locked up over his case. The Missing 1 Fishermen. The net of the missing fishermen has b?en found near the Heads. There is no longer any- doubt as to the men haring been drowned. The Wairarapa Beefs. Mr Cox, Gorernment geologist, has forwarded to the Colonial Secretary a report regarding the Wairarapa auriferous resf. A principal point in the report relates to the abundance of quartz in the locality, there being several outcrops of quartz. A couple of samples of stone were taken from the centre and one side of the reef, care being taken to provide against fraud in the shape of “ salting ”or “prepared specimens. These specimens were assayed at the laboratory, and the result was that one sample yielded at the rate of 14dwts Igr to the ton. The other at the rate of 12dwts Igr. The quartz is rubbly and not difficult to work. Quartz taken from other reefs in the neighborhood was also tested, and one sample gave at the rate of 4dwts., to the ton. The gold is so fine in the stone that it cannot be detected even with a magnifying glass. The prospectors not having moans to erect machinery, it is suggested that the Government advance £SOO for that purpose, and in the event of the reef turning out well and the £SOOO reward to be paid for the discovery of a payable field having to bo paid, the £SOO be deducted from that amount.

PATEA, October 9 Mortality at Parihaka.

Forty-six Natives have died at Farihaka during' the last fortnight. There are still from sixty to seventy more prostrated with dangerous fever. The Natives are calling upon Te Whiti to restore the dead to life again. [fbosi one own oobbespondent.l DUNEDIN, October 9. The Otago University. The Secretary of State to the Colonies writes re the Otago University Council's application for a charter and the counter petition from the Governors of the Canterbury College:—“ Having regard to the objection pointed out in Lord Kimberley’s dispatch of January 31st, 1873, to more than one University in a colony, and not being able to find anything in the present circumstances which would justify me in departing from the decision then arrived at, or in recommending the establishment of more than one chartered University in any Australasian colony, I hare not thought it my duty to advise Her Majesty to authorise any steps towards granting letters patent to the Otago University.” TIMARU, October 8. Nearly 200 unemployed, including a number from Christchurch, left for Albnry to-day. Work is expected to begin to-morrow. The annual meeting of the Timaru Boating Club was held to-day. The report and balance-sheet showed it to be in a very satisfactory condition. There is no sign of the schooner Tarrahga, which left Lyttelton for this port ten days ago. The first section of the breakwater will be completed in about a fortnight, and it is intended to celebrate the event in fitting style. Edmond Moynahan was charged to-day by Eli Mitchell with an attempted highway robbery with violence. The case was dis,missed. DUNEDIN, October 8. An agitation has commenced against the railway by-law which compels all employes -to become members of the benefit society. INVERCARGILL, October 8. The letter of the Hon, M. Holmes, in which he declined to support the passage of the Bluff Harbor Foreshore Endowment Bill through the House, came up at the meeting of the Board to-day, when Mr Cnthbertson and others passed severe strictures upon Mr Holmes for his interference in the matter. It was decided that copies of a statement setting forth the facts of the case should be printed

and diatributed amongst members of both Houses. In the Supreme Court this morning Mr Justice Williams having summed lip in the case of Thomas O. Eeid, the jury brought in the following verdictOn the first, second, and fifth counts they found the prisoner “■Guilty,” and “Not Guilty” on the third, fourth and sixth j in other words, that as director and member of the company he was guilty of fraudulent appropriation of £1446 to his own use, and not guilty of fraudulently appropriating the same moneys to the use of J. Chalmers Eeid (his brother). The second case against prisoner was then gone on with,_ and the jury returned a verdict of “Guilty” on the counts charging him as director and member with having fraudulently appropriated the sum of £2O. By direction a verdict of “Not Guilty” on certain abandoned counts was returned. Prisoner was then indicted on a third charge, and on this also prisoner was found guilty. A fourth charge was then brought, the prisoner being found guilty thereon. Mr Haggett, the Grown Prosecutor, then stated that having obtained one conviction in each class of "offence charged against Beid, he would abandon the six other charges. The jury therefore returned verdicts of “Not Guilty" on these. His Honor remitted prisoner to his former custody until the points reserved shall be decided by the Court of Appeal. Mr Denniston, prisoner’s counsel, applied for bail, but his Honor said that Beid having been found guilty, the bail of two sureties in £SOO, and himself in £IOOO, would have to be augmented. This, counsel said, was prohibitory.