TELEGRAMS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 130, 1 May 1884, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

[UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Auckland, April 29. Judge Fenton has induced the Rotorua natives to set aside 2500 acres of land for sale to the Crown as an endowment for the Rotoma railway. Mr Kerry Nicholls leaves Auckland shortly, and goes Home by the steamer Ton»ariro His book, detailing his travels m the King Country, and giving a brif.f history of the war, and showing the position of tho native question, will be published m London during the stay of lawhiao and his. party there. pL'.NHBIM.Apt^ 29. The Supreme Court Sitting were opened by Air Justice Richmond jto-day. His Honour congratulated the district on the freedom from crime, there" being only one accused m calendar", and added . that the. sister district,- ; \vaaf even happier, as at present th§re were ■ no criminal cases ; whatever. "Vffilliani | Stewart, for hor>e stealing, was ; found guilty, and sentence was postponed till a second indictment for ihousebreaking against him is tried; That will conclude: the criminal business, j .. ( , Neil M'Britle^ who was sentenced a fortnight ago to six week's imprisonment ior wilful damage to pi'dperty, was released yesterday, and arrived m Blenheim lastnigh.t.^lt, waa evidently ; a case of mistaken identity. ' : Ross. Apil 29. The quartz excitement continnes and parties are out m all directions pegging leases. Stone was brought to town on , Saturday showing specks of gold, sdme the size of a pin's heaif. Samples of the Stone were crushed by a postal and mortar m the presence of a score of practical miners," who un-. ■a.nimously agreed that the result was very payable. The reef is stated to be " well defined, and from two co five feet thick. , .'•'•■ • ■. ■ ■ Dusedin, April ;29. \ . The animal meeting of the Acclimatisation Society was held yesterday. Mr J. P. Maitland wan re-elected Pre^ sident. Notice of motion was given" that the .. subscription be reduced from ,£l, to ,10s, m order to encourage a ,wfder intei esx, m tjb,e operations of the society. „;,.;, „.., For an aggravated assault on arrestling constable com on Sunday morning^ Gfesrge Child, painter, was yesterday fined £;ip or two mouths' imprisonment, and a mate named Anderson, who tried to assist him, was fiaed £iO or one. month. Timaru, April 29. At the Resident Magistrate's Couit to-day, William Darby, licensee of the j Clv > Hotel, was fined 40s arid costs for permitting drunkenness on the premises. „-.-■.• . ChristchdJrcii, April 29. Out of respect to the memory of the late Mr Henry John Tancred, the public offices m Christohurch, excepting ,the Customs, Postal, and Telegraphic Departments, will be closed tbMnoriOAV at noon. r . •