SECOND EDITION INTERPROVINCIAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 37, 11 January 1884, Page 3

SECOND EDITION INTERPROVINCIAL.

(rJUIiEJ) PRESS JLfiSOCIATIOSi) „ Auckland, January 9. Mr Carkeek, surveyor, telegraphed to Mr Bryce yesterday that ihehas been unable toWry through the exploration for the • railway line- via Moknu, the natives having turned him back beyond the OhUna* district. He reports the country to 1 bo exceedingly rough, but it urprobabVthat Government will send another party to try and. get through what is heid tp be the best route for the. railway. ;,',.. ..- • -' : Advices, dated 13th, from qWtafejGMk of the whaling bar^u*. Alaska, received at the Bay of Islands, repor>l<Ms< 'having i been 'successful^ at whaling this 1 season 'at the ' Chathams. He has. takes 116^ barrels metf oil, seO'Wrwi.^ li§nt ! oiV, aWSpDlbs * whale^one:^ '" . -ja'-iVi ■'»■■ •;•'"■''-' At the sessions m the case of "Whakatiki, a "Maori, of Tauranga, charged with, perjury, a verdict of not guilty was; returned, and the prisoner was discharged and cautioned. iGbunt Bblbgnjt. Striklarid, a young Maifes^nbbleViah; who arrived by the Rotomahana from^ydney., left for the Hot ( liak<js this evening. He intends making a tour South. He is inquiring as to j& opening for a Maltese special settlement. With the Mayor he visited the sugar works and the. Calliope Dock to-day. L . At the criminal sessions Auguste Rafflitf for 'friuditlent bankruptcy, got s}x months, with hard ;i*VPflfc * ■ i.- ■ \ > °Tn^miners l bp strjike at. Kawakaw«| coalmine^ have received, no^eifroni the Mf of Islands Coal Companyto^u^j thrcomjiariy's nouses ;to make roomtor] the new hand*. , ",.,.. 0 _ The Union Company^ steamer Penguin went to-day on her ; annuai trip to Motutapu, given by the.company to the childM* of the charitable institutions of, Auckland. There. were persons on board, arid a ' pleasure-able day was AypttPgm^'^ a, narrow escape fipmS;oM?n.ing : ' n '* he CU y Bktbs , day. l ' IWhen,exhausted : 'he - was a^scued by J^ejsiiig* t^e^ell known athlete. ■'"'"' ' Nkw Plymouth, January 10. Tie Nafe -Lands Court was opened here to-day by Judges Brookfield and "Williams, who .afcr&ed^rora /Auckland on Wednesday. -^e»y few of the nit^ve^oWft^sted^ ,a<tendea, c kn^YMe Court adjourned to Waitara; " t "" "■'■'■ Gtsborne, January 10. At a meetifis of lihe^ocal share holder of the South British Petroleum Companvrit was, resolyed toi urge Ctb^ Sy'SPjl^ &rd.of i .l)irectqre to supply a plantfor,Bml£ing'aj second,, hor.e: ;i Tfae Southern Cro^s Company Ijad not lont/ tEeoi ! a boreK .'jfjio bore ; isdow»i367ft: ThY %*>t%ftft •=o Cw WS ■■■ b . or « ia 48$&. > > flfc(Aittrrq) of pil : is got. each: tiinje .%". is ; pumnedj oujU.. ; Anericau bqi. ; ew O sfty l i tl}at jthe. quality' o£ .the oil is^.ej^.r.eigely , .gopcL TJie; Southern Cross ComiMiny 1 have begun a second bore two miles from the other. .WJatmatb, .tjamiary 1 10. A batch of iarrikins-Eejcdyed^a sevwre^ mSrning.^lt was ..pmved that they visited a f*rn} l\ouse. at Makikihi at 2 a.m. on gear's Day, kicked up a trem^np^srioiw^ t and hurled stones on the^roqfj' and .through the windows, ' doing damage to the amounc of . £2. On lihe~fariner remonstrating, he was called outline; iindkmSckißir^lown and struck several times: — The i offenders, fonj-iift^OabelyL^re fihedi m4ite riiati-' mum Denalty of .&2,'tyitK the alternative of a month's imprisonment. The Rtajde.n«i i >M»gißt«ftte Btatecl *h'afc We Benph/ w.44 determined to put dowri'the nuiHan^ftofjllairikinism. ■■■>= l m .-■^ inWfiLLiJSfGTok/ Janiiary 10/ :

JfelW. R Sti«efc, of Dunedin, Ms I bef ft fi^pginied^ Visiting Jusbi^eof^Le' PwedJajgaoL c ,1- : V ?../■■*■*!'.** y'f; Extracts from^hefcTefculationa 1 * respectitfgJtheLiritrdducSon into Victoria of New Zealand cattle are gazetted. XfcelHonJ Wy' RollesUro/ M? Jaincs Mc*Keraow aud M* -W; L. BulleV] We' beej£<ekbte&governoi-s Of the New Zfia^ Tlia-fullo^ihg i additfonal • ' subjects of cx^paiaalioii<fb|D&A)jisiSan j as ibtrrriiftbr l^ aTe gazetted, signed l)^ 7 tbfe v Wndflfe of tlie judge^ißojfersniofcei of "the f&fMdtitionera Act^lßß2, Act 1883. tfie peff/on? wb^biivestakan-Hn^eg^bf, Bachelor 1 of I«iWßj«inieiitibn«ai : iti flj© said '£w shall be required to answer questi#n;f' proposed for candidates for admission as bafcristerim> subject 8 arid 5,, i'nie v 11, of «.Tfaie I J.aw. i PractioTi f ers''Act, 1882." . -•'- , ..-;. Ai*he ! pel»fprmance ;i * r M:<i£li6r Goose" pantomine -laVt ■ iiight 5 'Mrs "Stanfleld, who represents Mother" Qoiwe, had; a na^yifeU^in"tbe'^nßjr^i < ma^ion : scene^ througn^rap^carnftiig 1 aWyV '"' FoV tunately she escaped' with but a few bruises. r~~7r . ,-i<rr The New Zealand Loan.And Mercantile Agent j 1 Company have,' received the following tfelegmn fto'nV their JiOiidon. office^_dated.-Bth January-: — Xlw wheat market is dull, Adelaide is worth 46s 6d, ISbw ZeaiantV 42s per 4961b5. The^allpW' market is firm. Muttau is/Vor|R 54s 6d, and beef 39s 6d per leather market is firm. Best aides are worth .-lOfiKper lb. Tlft New "Zealand hemp marjeet quietl' ■ Fine is-worth, dB26 v per ton. Januai'y 10. In theb Supremo. Court t>aniel May : dwell, was tiied for obtaihipg an *d' vance troifa the yew Zealand Grain Agency an^' M^antifie Ootvbatfy by falsely represent^tttli^cbnrents of five casks as tallow. The trial occupied the whole day." The defence pro'wfl lhat-ihe casks 1 contained talloyy extracted^ fpoin bofleff, bfut thestuff^wa^ des«ri,bed *$%&% fo rn W*tt& and .pfttrlaV: condition. The „ v «s tl not guilty." ,*'•■■■'••'•■" -- Qne thousand bne hundrdd atia^rot-l'v shares (forfeitet^ jn thje, SlOM.thp^'Qross Petroleum Company were sold to day at four shillings. „ "*• v •. ,a The ChristctitiM' 1 Regatta * Club formed to, night pronii^es to. be jJ^H gupported. -^Ire bluli propose to take the place of. the Hefithoote, .JJegattft ClabV The fiTSt regatta tiiicter tfie new club will be befU'oaHlie 28rdbf'Februi^,, aDuuedjk; JanuaryjilO» - " At 'the Supreme Court •td-dtfy-the' ' ]>rxnWpal 'jcaSd was/tftq 'chdrg^'against,' Joh^N^w.t^h.at ibaegfnt , assault upon a Qvd: 4t iy^irs :of ago m the mining district of IS e vis. He was ibiind guilty, and*-' on ! being ''challenged said all he hud to Hay was that the girl was a consenting parly

i when she came to his hut. His Honor isaid, *| Prisoner, you seem to have done | your best to corrupt and ruin iMtf i child, and altogether you have not f dried -violence, yet I thing it is v case where severe punishment should be inflicted. :If the child indeed, as you say, freely consented, she did so because through your prior conduct she had become depraved. The sentence of the Court is that you be kept m penal servitude m the colony of yewv ew Zealand for tho term of seven years ; and, further, that you be privately .whipped with a cat o'-nine-tails, receiving twenty-five lashes." A Chinaman, named Ah Chew, who pleaded guilty to burglary m a drapery shop m George-;-:treet, was sentenced to four -years, and another named Wong Ah Tack, who was found guilty of having stolen goods from the same shop m his possession, got twelve months. The Governor visited Hallenstein's Clothing Factory yesterday, and to-day 1 the -Mosgiel Wollen Company's Fac- •■;■•/.;. r-zn;; ■ -v- 1 :.