NEW ZEALAND SPECTATOR AND Cook's Strait Guardian. Saturday, October 8, 1853.
By the Overland Mail we have received Auckland papers to the 3rd September, and the Tdranaki Herald to 23rd September. At the Criminal Sittings of the Supreme Court, at Auckland, William Moore, a pensioner, of the village of Howick, was convicted of the wilful murder of his wife on the 25th June last, and was sentenced to be executed. The jury having strongly recommended the prisoner to mercy, his case would be submitted to the decision of the Governor in Council. An application had been made by Mr. Brown, to the Supreme Court to have the action for libel in the case oi Brown v. Williamson and Wilson tried at Wellington, on the alleged ground of the political excitements caused by the late election for Superintendent, but the application had been refused. The titne t for the meeting of the Provincial Council does not appear to haTe been "fixed.
The Prbvineial' Council at New Plymouth had v&ei on the 16th fa'stant. The Session was opened with a temperate straightforward address front the Superintendent;, iri which he refers to the Act granting a Representative Constitution to the colony, under the authority of wlifc'h they had! met together to deliberate, and reminds the Council " that to His Excellency Sir George* Grey the colony is mainly indebted for* the groundwork of the Constitution, and that his views and suggestion^ iri a despatch to Earl Grey contain s6tiie of the most liberal provisions that have been embodied in the Act. As might therefore be expected, His Excellency?s provisional arrangements with regard to; the General Revenue and Land Fund, for enabling the Provincial Government effectively to enter on its duties, are framed on the same liberal basis." He then refers to the arrangements in progress by the General Government for aaquiting. large blocks of land from* the Natives, and to j the prospect which the prosperity of the province affords that the share of the revenue to be placed by ttie Governor at their disposal will suffice to meet the current expenses of the Provincial Government. Mr. J. N. Watt had been elected Speaker of the Provincial Council.
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New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume IX, Issue 854, 8 October 1853, Page 3
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