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[Press Association. J Wellington, Friday. Sir J. Coode's report on the Greymouth harbor has been received. He speaks favorably of the capabilities of the harbor. Of the £1000 insured in the Colonial Office on the Pakuratahi hotel £750 was reinsured. Dtjnedin, Friday. William Mitchell, aged 14, was drowned in the Taieri river near the Ferry yesterday "while bathing. A younger lad who was with him got frightened and ran away for assistance. The Presbytery have appointed a thanksgiving day for the bountiful harvest. Pastor Chiniquy challenges the Roman Catholic Bishop of Dunedin to show that the persecuting laws of the Church of Rome have ever been repealed, and that he is not pledged by a solemn oath to extirpate all Protestants so soon as he has the power to do so. Mr Conyera left to-day on a visit of inspection to the West Coast. General Davidson is inspecting the Artillery Volunteers. Kempthorne and Prossers Company hare lS9ued their report to the 31sfc January 1880. The profit shown for the period of 13 months amounts to £9,702 on the paid up capital, £71,019. The directors recommend that the amount paid for the good will, g£7,500, be ■written off and the balance, £2202, carried forward, in preference to declaring a dividend. Auckland, Friday. Mr Whitaker, in reply to a communication from the Cambridge Farmers' Club, replied that the weight of professional testimony goes against the existence of pleuro pneumonia, in Auckland. Mr Kinlock, Y.S., commenting on the letter emphatically reiterates that the disease exists among the cows. Subscriptions are still coming in towards the Irish relief fund. A large number of applications are being made for separation orders by married ■women. Some singular facts have come to light in connection with the recent Mormon scandals. Mrs Lucky, the -wife of a fish hawker, who tried to bolt with Elder Pierce by the mail steamer, says she was very unhappy at home owing to the harshness of her husband. She appealed to Pierce for advice, and several prayer meetings were held and the Mormons recommended her to pray for guidance, and she alleges that she saw the Virgin in the night and an angel told her to go to Utah. Mrs Jackson, of Christchurch, a widow with three children, accompanied Elder Pierce to Salt Lake. Timaru, Thursday. In the riot cases the application for a new trial on the ground that irrelevant evidence

had been allowed, and the jury mis-directed, was refused, but sentence was deferred pending the result of an appeal to the Supreme Court on the points raised by the defence, Mr Stout undertaking to state a case. The prisoners, six in number, were bound over to appear when required, each in ,£2OO and two sureties of £100 each. In the case of Siru3 found guilty of larceny, an application for a new trial on the ground that the jury had twice over returned a verdict that there was no felonious intent, which was practicaly a verdict of not guilty, and that the judge mis-directed them in defining what constituted larceny was refused, CHMSTcnoRCH, Friday. The following English birds per Waimate have been released : — 128 hedge hammers, 2 twites, 4 reed warblers, 96 thrushes, 132 Egyptian quail, 19 partridges and 22 reed poles. The partridges landed have cost the Society £4 each. Some oats have been threshed on Wylie's farm between Ashley and Sefton, yielding 106 bushels to the acre. Gisboenb, Thursday. Edward Francis Ward, junior, solicitor, was charged this morning with forging the name of the late W. K. Neabitt, Frauds Commissioner, to a deed of Matawhero to the B block. This was the deed which the plaintiffs refused to produce before the Supreme Court in the case lately tried in Wellington of McFarlane v Rees, for slander. The case is still proceeding.