POLICE OFFICE, NELSON.

Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, Volume I, Issue 11, 21 May 1842, Page 43

POLICE OFFICE, NELSON.

On Friday morning Mr. Carkeek appeared at the Police Office to support an information ,he had exhibited against Mr. John Saxton; H. A. Thompson, Esq., P.M., Captain England, J.P., and Captain Wakeneld, J.P., on the bench. It appeared that some timber of foreign growth, not entered at the Custom House, and belonging to Mr. J. Saxton, was being landed from the Clifford, when it was seized by Mr. Carkeek, together with the boats employed in landing, it was shown that Mr. Saxton had applied the same morning at the Custom House, to make the necessary entries, but found Mr. Carkeek out. The wording of the ordinance is "unlading;" therefore, though it was quite plain that no evasion of payment of the duties was intended, Mr. Carkeek was bound to seize and to exhibit the information.

The information was quashed, on the ground that it required an intention to evade the payment of duties to subject the goods to forfeiture.

Departure op the Bishop of New! Zealand.— On Saturday last the Bishop of New Zealand took his departure for Sydney,; on his way to New Zealand, by the ship Tomatin, bound for the former place. He carries with him the good-will of all who have been placed in communication with him. ' Previous to his departure, the New Zealand Company entered into certain arrangements for the promotion of education, and the support of the church, which are calculated to give great satisfaction to the colony. Subject to the approval of Government, it has offered to advance a sum of £5,000 by way of a loan, on the security of the native reserves, for promoting the education of the native families, on condition, however, that the church furnishes an equal sum. We believe there will be no difficulty in fulfilling this condition, so that we trust we are justified in saying the education of the natives is happily secured. A further sum of £5,000 is to be assigned to the support of the church at j Nelson; £2,000 for a like purpose at Welling- , ton; and £500 for New Plymouth. The reason why Nelson has so large a sum is, that in point of fact it is her own, whilst the sums for the church at Wellington and New Plymouth are really grants on the part of the Company. By referring to the terms of purchase of the second colony, the reader will find a fund set apart for such purposes. The Company is also ready to provide for the establishment of a college at Nelson, as soon as a municipality is granted to that settlement. The fund for the purpose of establishing a college amounts to £15,000. Mrs. Martin, the lady of the chief judge of New Zealand, accompanied the Bishop of New Zealand. — New Zealand Journal.

Church Bells. — A Bristol paper says, that a bell was being cast from the metal of the late Minster Bells to bo presented to the Bishop of New Zealand for the sue of his church. Mr. Burder. hitherto the unyielding defendant in the Braintree church-rate case/has paid his rate and the expenses. It is understood that the churchwardens will now proceed against the recusant whose name stands next on the list.