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Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1994, 15 July 1880, Page 2

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[PBEBS ASSOCIATION. ( DUNEDIN, July 15. Heavy on the Corporation. In the case of Alves v. the Corporation of Dunedin, the Court have awarded the plaintiff £2600 and costs. The coats amount to nearly £4OOO. The Corporation offered £I2OO before the case came on. GEAHAMSTOWN, July 15. The Removal of Mr Kenrick. A meeting was called last night by circular, and largely and influentially attended, to consider what steps should be taken to petition against the removal of the Resident Magistrate, a matter now before the House. The following resolutions were carried unanimously ; —(I) “That this meeting has entire confidence in Mr Kenrick as Resident Magistrate for this district, and desires to testify to the strict impartiality which has distinguised his judicial proceedings, and that this meeting endorse the opinion expressed at the meeting of Justices previously held.” (2) “ That it is the opinion of this preliminary meeting that an opportunity should be given to the whole of the Thames male adult population to express their entire confidence in the honorable and equitable justice manifested in the decisions given by Henry Kenrick, Esq., j their present Magistrate ; further, that tins opportunity should be given by calling a public meeting on the same at an early date, and that any resolutions passed to that effect at such meeting be forwarded to the Minister of Justice, to Parliament, and to the worthy Magistrate himself.” A public meeting will be held to-morrow. AUCKLAND, July 15. Theatrical and JournalisticMr Wickham proprietor of the Auckland “Eree Lance,” had his nose severely pulled yesterday by a member of the Froliques Company, for condemning their entertainment before seeing it as another lot of Yankee trash. The other newspapers speak well of the performance. WELLINGTON, July 15. The Unemployed. The City Council intend to resume stonebreaking, to afford employment to a large number of men. The Government will probably send a further detachment of men to Fatea. AUCKLAND, July 14. InquestAt the inquest on the body of John Betterman, the jury returned a verdict that deceased was accidentally suffocated by the fumes of charcoal on board the cutter Tweed. HU mate, the survivor, Henry Thomson, is still confined to his bed. Accident. A man named Thos. Ereeston had three fingers out off by a circular saw at the Auckland Timber Company’s mill to-day. At Last! Mr Sheehan was a passenger for Wellington by the Hawea. WELLINGTON, July 14, Gleich’s CaseAt the Bankruptcy Sittings an order was made for the superintendent of the Wellington police to deliver up twenty diamond rings, seized from F. Gleicb, alias Fisher, when arrested for fraudulent bankruptcy at Adelaide. KUMAEA, July 14. The Knmara Disaster. The body of John Whelan was recovered shortly before 5 o’clock this morning and buried with the two others, DenU, his brother, and Phillip Cummins. The funeral was largely attended, nearly 1000 persons following. All the places of business were closed and but few claims on the gold-field worked during the day. TIMAEU, July 14. Late Sticking-np CaseRoth men concerned in the late stickingnp case at Waihoa, were brought before the R.M. at Waimate and remanded. Their names are Eugene Ford and W. Talbot. INVERCARGILL, July 14. A Doctor CommittedThe investigation of the charge of manslaughter against Dr. Moffat, of Winter, was resumed at the Police Court to-day, and resulted in accused being committed for trial at the next sittings of the Supreme Court. Bail was allowed accused in £2OO, and two sureties in £2OO each. fPBOM OXTB OWN COBBESPONDENT.J WELLINGTON, July 14. The Waimate Plains. The “Post’s” Hawera correspondent telegraphs as follows :—“ The Maoris are much dissatisfied at the way they have been inconvenienced at the Land Court at Patea by the non-arrival of the Judge. The surveys on the plains are progressing rapidly. Many Maoris are going to Parihaka; they say to plant and stay there. A dozen bullock drivers passed through here last week. It is reported here that the roads at Parihaka have mot.