NEW ZEALAND.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2414, 30 December 1881, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND.

[PEB PRESS ASSOCIATION.] AUCKLAND, December 29. Breach of Excise RegulationsAt the Police Court this morning, Donald Watson, brewer, was fined £2O, and costs £23, for neglecting to date his beer duty stamps. Several publicans were fined 20s and costs for neglecting to efface the beer duty stamps. Two or three of the prosecutions fell through, and the Customs solicitor gave notice of appeal. The Beer Duty. At the Chamber of Commerce, Mr Ehrenfried, brewer, brought forward the present inconvenient way of collecting the beer duty. He said that every brewery should be con* sidersd a bond, and the working tuns gnaged from time to time, after which a brewer could do as he liked with his produce. The question was postponed. Natives in High LifeThe Kaipara Native meeting has decided to invite Tawhaio to visit Kaipara in February or March. In consequence of the proposed gathering at Kaipara no Oraki Native Parliament will be held at the new year. Native Homicide. At the inquest on Hoani Tekere, who was murdered at the Oxford races, Makaire Te Papn was committed for manslaughter. There was hard cross-swearing by the Native witnesses, A MisdemeanourA warrant is out for Frederick Box, charged with making a false declaration for enrolment as an elector, Franklyn North. A Maori Fashionable Dinner. Major Te Wheoro, MUR. for the Western Maori electorate, entertained 500 of his constituents at dinner at Bangiriri, when the wants of the Natives were discussed. The Blackbirds and the FruitGarden fruit is being greatly damaged by the Acclimatisation Society’s blackbirds. WELLINGTON, December 29. Supreme CourtNine criminal oases are set down for hearing at the Supreme Court on Tuesday next, including two under the Corrupt Practices Act. At the civil sittings, the action Fisher (Mayor) v Stewart, for slander, will be heard. Damages are fixed at £IOOO. [ The Official Return of Members. The returns of the succesful candidates for the House of Representatives have been gazetted, with the exception of Rodney, Waikouaiti, and Hokitika. It is understood that the Returning Officer "for Rodney professes his inability to return tho writ forwarded him by telegraph, not knowing what has become of it. WESTPORT, December 29. Mr J. B. FisherMr J. B. Fisher, ex M.H R., left Westport for Christchurch yesterday. Previous to his departure a number of friends mot and drank his health. Much regret is felt at Mr Fisher’s leaving, and hopes are expressed for his future prosperity. DUNEDIN, December 29. Judge Chapman’s FuneralThe funeral of the late Judge Chapman took place to day and was largely attended. Nearly all the members of the legal profession in Dunedin were present. Harbour Improvement. The steamer Penguin will come up the now channel to Dunedin to-morrow, never previously having passed Port Chalmers. The members of the Harbor Board, City Council, and Chamber of Commerce, will bo on board her. A Sunday Trading Casein a ease heard to-day at tho Police Court Walter Bose, fruiterer, was charged with a breach of tho Sunday Trading Ordinance by selling fruit. He had one shutter down and the door partly open, and the Resident Magistrate decided that as the shop was not kept open so as to be offensive to persons passing on that day, tha information would have to be dismissed. [PROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.] WELLINGTON, December 29. Mr Bryce returned to Wellington by coach last night. As a good deal of capital is being sought to be made out of the destruction of Native crops at and near Parihaka by Mr Bryce’s orders, it may be well to give the explanation, which I have” received on very good authority. The fact simply is that the crops destroyed at Parihaka are merely those planted by the strangers, who had no right there, and assembled there in defiance of the Government. Those destroyed at Pungarehu and Parapara had been planted, in spite of repeated official prohibition, on land outside the Native reserves, and not belonging to the Parihaka Maoris at all.