NEW ZEALAND.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2130, 21 December 1880, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND.

[FEE PBES3 ASSOCIATION-.] TIMAEU, December 12. Criminal Sessions. At the Supreme Court James Cunningham and James Gilchrist were indicted to-day for larceny from a dwelling. Gilchrist was acquitted and Cunningham was sentenced to eight years' penal servitude. On receiving Bontence he declared he had been twice sentenced by the same judge innocently. He thanked his Honor, and said he hoped Judge Johnstone would live to sentence him a third time, when it would be for something. DUNEDIN, December 21. A Naughty Boy. At the City Court to-day, a boy named Sheehan was fined 40s and costs, or fourteen days* imprisonment, failing immediate payment, for assaulting two Chinese. A lady Drowned. A Miss Wilson was drowned at Ocean Eeach this afternoon. Mr Kingston, the ( proprietor of the baths, who went in after

her, and unsuccessfully tried to resoue her,, was brought out insensible. Scholastic ExaminationsThere are thirty candidates for the nine senior scholarships offered by the Education Board, and over fifty for the junior scholarships. AUCKLAND, December 20. Provincial Scholarships* The examination of candidates for the Provincial scholarships commenced to-day. There are six candidates for three open scholarships and 109 for eight district scholarships, 74 boys and 35 girls. Death of a RacehorseOwing to the late accident. Sinking Fund has been shot. NAPIER, December 20. Death of an Old Chief. The old chief Tareha is dead. He fought well for us in 1828. It is mentioned in " Chambers' Magazine " that Tareha entertained a party of English gentlemen at his pah, and from that date to the day of his death he was foremost in welcoming European settlement. NELSON, December 20. A Begular Fire-eater. Mr Alfred Harley addressed the Suburban electors at Bichmond on Saturday night and received a vote of thanks. He declared himself a Badical, and spoke in favor of secular education, abolishing the Upper House, and an elective Governor, and against selling Crown lands. He looked on the institution of a Colonial Bank of Issue as a means for the liquidation of our debt. TIMABU, December 20. Criminal Sessions. The Supreme Court half-yearly sittings opened to-day. The calendar was an exceptionally light one. The grand jury found true bills against the nine prisoners arraigned. The following sentences were passed :—Charles) Williams, stealing from the person, seven months; Fredk. Nelson, stealing from the person, seven months ; John Blair, embezzlemont, one year; Edward Thompson, embezzlement, three months; Peter Pringle, larceny, nine months. DUNEDIN, December 20. Sonth Dnnedin Loan* Messrs G. T. Clarke and Co., finn-nmul agents, have floated the six per cent loan for the borough of South Dunedm, at a premium of 35s per cent. Wire in ChaffThe case of Samuel Shaw v William White, which is of interest to farmers and other persons who have to do with reaping and binding machines, commenced at this morning's sitting of the B.M. Court. The plaintiff claims £IOO damages for loss of working bullocks, whose death he alleges was caused by their swallowing pieces of wire whioh were in chaff supplied to him by defendant. The Colonial BankMr W. J. M. Larnaoh is a candidate for the vacant directorship of the Colonial Bank. caused by the retirement of Mr A. C. Strode. INVEROABGILL, December 20. Criminal Sessions. The Supreme Court Sittings commenced this morning. Alluding to the Judicature . Commission, Judge Williams said that one of the results of their labors would probably be > the simplification of the process and lessening the expenses of the Supreme Court, and such 1 being the case there was a possibility of a j more frequent sitting of the Court being held in Invercargill. Altogether there were four cases set down for trial, but the Grand Jury threw : out two of the bills, Donald McKay, who was convicted at last session, but remanded in , custody for sentence pending a decision of the Court of Appeal on a point his Honor re- . served, was discharged, the 'higher Court > having quashed the conviction. His Honor ' said that as McKay had escaped punishment, 1 Cameron, who was but a tool in the matter, 1 would probably be pardoned, and Whiddon, , the actual fire raiser, would also be liberated. ; Bobert Leitzens, found guilty of an un- , natural offence, was sentenced te two years* , hard labor. The remaining case, in which a i medical man is charged with manslaughter, i will be taken to-morrow. Mr Walter Reynolds. Mr Walter Reynolds arrived per Botomai hana last evening. He brings under engagej ment to him Herr Bandmann and Mdlla, 1 Louise Beaudet, who are supported by Mr ; W. Reynolds, Mr J. F. Oathcart, Mr Charles Hall, Grace Hatha way, Miss Agnes Crawford, and a number of other first-class artistes altogether new to the New Zealand stage. , After a short season here the company travel northward. fPBOII OTTB OWN COEBEEPOHDKFT.] WELLINGTON, December 20. Sale of Waimate PlainsThe Minister for Lands has courteously furnished me with the following summary of the results of last week's sales of land on the Waimate Plains : Rural sections sold for cash realized £39,674 17s ; 158 quarter-acre sections in the township of Mania, £3387; suburbs of Mania, £IOBO 15s ; 70 quarter-acre sections in the town of Opunake, £1712 10s ; suburbs of Opunake, £339 17s. The total cash sales therefore produced £46,194 19s. The rural sections averaged £lO 16s 5d per acre, and the land sold on deferred payments brought £16,144 10s Bd, or an average of a little over £7 per acre, and every section thrown open was taken up. The total sales, therefore, realized no less than £62,339 9s Bd. The Fate of Tuhi. The Chief Justice's notes and other papers concerning the case of Tuhi, having been read by Ministers, were transmitted to-day to His Excellency the Governor for perusal, prior to the meeting of the Executive Council, which takes place to-morrow, and at which the fate of the prisoner will be finally determined. It is generally remarked as certain that the law will be allowed to take its course. Our Contemporary at it AgainThe "Lyttelton Times" of Friday last gives a telegram from its special correspondent, dated Wellington, 16th December, as follows: —" It is rumored in the best informed circles that a cause of unpleasantness between the Governor and Ministers, in which Parliament is likely to support Ministers, is already threatening. It arises out of the fact that Sir Arthur Gordon's title of High Commissioner of Polynesia, takes precedence of that of Governor of New Zealand. I am informed that this has been the subject of an unpleasant discussion, which may lead to a proposal to suspend payment of the Governor's salary when Parliament meets until the exact nature of his services in connection with the respective appointments is defined. It is argued that full pay should not be given for divided services." I am positively and authoritatively assured that this ingeniously constructed little story has not the remotest foundation in fact. There has been no " unpleasant discussion " on the subject alluded to, nor is any unpleasantness threatening, so far as the Governor and his advisers are aware. It is scarcely necessary to contradict so preposterous an idea as that of docking the Governor's salary in order to force him to give precedence to the title of Governor instead of awarding the place of honor to the High Commissionership. It is quite true that some public comment has been excited by the priority given to the Commissionership, which was done cf the Governor's own motion, and was not implied by the wording of his commission. This is probably the sole basis en whioh the " Lyttelton Times' " annoying, but not veracious story is constructed. 1 have every assurance that the relations between the Governor and Ministers have been of unbroken cordiality, and there is no sign of any interruption. Mr Maginity. Nothing is definitely settled yet as to another appointment being given to Mr A. T. Maginnity, late Secretary of the Telegraph Department, but it is under consideration whether he shall receive another position in the service outside of Wellington, and this probably will be done. The Parihaka Natives-To-day's telegrams from the West Coast; report all quiet on the part of the Natives j no renewal of fencing or obstruction. The Parihaka meeting ended uneventfully. The Natives have been re-dividing their land at Parihaka, sharing it among the Taranaki Ngatiawa and Ngatiruaria tribes. The Ngatiawa have been detained at Parihaka by Te Whiti to help at more clearing, but the other tribes have returned home,