LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Kumara Times, Issue 1158, 15 June 1880, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

("NEW ZEALAND PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Napier, June 14. There was an extraordinary scene in the Supreme Court this morning, when John Boyd, alias Hutton, was brought up on a charge of obstructing the railway. He pleaded guilty, and when asked if he had anything to say for himself, he launched into the most horrible profanity and filthy language, swearing at Judge Richmond, at the gaoler, and police. His Honor remarked that the man must be mad, when with strong oaths he declared that it was his Honor who was mad, not himself. He was sentenced to 15 years' penal servitude, his Honor remarking that he was either a dangerous lunatic, or a criminal of the worst class. He added that he would represent the case to the Minister of Justice. The charge against Herika, of roasting Hemma, another Maori, was provocative of much amusement. His Honor, in his charge to the Grand Jury, treated him very lightly, and expressed doubt as to whether the Ciown Prosecutor should present the indictment. The jury, however, brought in a true bill. The evidence for the prosecution was the same as already reported but when Br Hatchings was under examination, the prisoner asked him how, if after he had prescribed for a patient, and he was locked up in gaol, could he continue to treat him \ The doctor said he supposed he must answer a " brother professional" carefully, and declined to say. Herika's defence was to the effect that he was treating the man to drive out a devil, or to cure him of blindness, and he mentioned Mr Colienso's letter to the Herald as proving that that was the proper Maori surgical practice. He said that all his worldly possessions had been confiscated by the natives; and even his wife, though she was with child, had been given to another man. He concluded with—" Salutations! May you live long. Friends of my ancestors, I have done no crime. If a man is sick they send for the doctor. The Courts in New Zealand act as Tareha (a well known chief) does. They are Arahuru courts. I have done." The jury returned a verdict of guilty. His Honor said he did not think the prisoner had acted with a wrong intention, and inflicted a sentence of one months' hard labor. The Maoris in their evidence, showed strong feeling against the prisoner, and taunted him with cowardice in roasting an old, blind, inSrra, and weak man when there were plenty of strong ones to operate on. "Wellington, June li. At a meeting of the Licensed Victuallers this afternoon, a deputation was appointed to wait on the brewers, with a view of coming to some arrangement as to what amount of the recently imposejj tax on beer should be charged to publicans. Auckland, June 10. A meeting of the Lincensed Victuallers was held to-day, and it was decided that beer should be raised to Gd a pint, and 5d outside. In the case of Gouk v. Union Insurance Company, His Honor Judge M'Donald gave judgment fur the Company without costs. June 11. About 80 Constabulary arrived from camp at Cambridge to go into winter quartern. Intelligence from. New Caledonia to 38'th May, rumors that another bank is to be started unconnected with official administration. The schooner Marian left Noumea for Auckland, ou the 24th May, with 21 passengers, probably Communis is.