New Zealand Spectator, AND COOK'S STRAIT GUARDIAN. Saturday, April 15, 1848.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 283, 15 April 1848, Page 2

New Zealand Spectator, AND COOK'S STRAIT GUARDIAN. Saturday, April 15, 1848.

The Lady Denison arrived last night from Auckland, which she left on the Bth instant. There does not appear to be any news of importance in the papers, with which, through the kindness of Capt. Murray, we have been furnished. H.M. Steamer Inflexible left Auckland about a fortnight since for Bombay, and H.M. Ship Fly arrived on the Bth inst., having called at Hobart Town. The Government Brig was to sail in a few days j for Wellington, but the period of her departure was uncertain. j The New Zeahnder contains an account of a murder committed at Kaipara by a native called Kapu killing another of the name of Jacky. Tirerau, the chief of the tribe, with the relatives of the murderer, sat in judgment on him, and condemned him to death. The sentence was carried into execution by burying the criminal alive. A noble trait is related of the chief Thomas Walker, who has sent to Sydney for machinery to the value of £300 for a cornmill, which he wished to erect at Kaikohe, the residence of Heki and his followers, and to present it to them for their use, offering to pay for the mill by giving up the annuity he receives from Government for three years.

A third newspaper was to be published at Auckland to^ be called the Anglo Maori Wardei , a portion of it being in Maori, and intended to be circulated among the natives; it was to appear once a week.

A. C. Strode, Esq., Deputy Inspector of Police, has been appointed acting Resident Magistrate at Otakou, and is also commissioned to administer the oaths to the newly appointed Magistrates of that district. Mr. Strode sailed on Thursday evening in the Perseverance for Otakou, with Mr. M'Carthy the acting Collector of Customs, and a party of the armed police.

The two police cases reported in this day's Spectator are of great interest as shewing the growing disposition of the natives of this district to appeal to the protection of our laws in deciding disputes among themselves, instead of, as formerly, resorting to force or settling them according to to their own customs.

Programme of the Performance by the Band of the 65th Regiment at Thorndon Flat, on Tuesday, the 18th April : — 1. Overture — Zampa Herold 2. Cavatina — Una voce poco fa — 111 „ . . Barbiere di Siviglia fMossim 3. Poliohinelle Quadrille Glover 4. Cavatina — Tutto E Sciolto — Son-1 „ „. . nambula JBelhni 5. Aurora Waltz LabitzTey 6. Duetto — Conte Conte Piendi — 1 „„. . Norma 1. Elfin Rutscher Galop 8. La Brunette Polka Schubert