TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 5783, 11 October 1879, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

(PER PRESS AOENCr.I Gn a■’aM sto ws, Frida y. At the sitting of the Di-'rict <’ mvt yesterday, Judge McDonald prom N-1 to forward the request, that the Court might sit here monthly, to the Government. In the case of Aitkin v. Dr'scol:. removal of pegs -n Aroha, the Kc.-id.-nt Msg : - : ate dismissed the case, as he considered th- : section of the Act under which the information was laid referred only to surveys on private ground. The first batch of children for the now orphanage arrived this afterno m trim Auckland. They numbered fifteen, and went at once to the building. Auckland, Friday. Thomas Hodley, late of Wellington, charged with obtaining money by faUc pretences from one Guthridge, has been remanded to Wellington. A young lad of 14 was sentenced to four mouths’ hard labor for attempting to commit a criminal offence on a little girl, A public meeting has been proposed to consider the action of the Grand Jury in throw!:: ; out the bill in the Minister of Marine c c-e. A petition is also being signed, praying for the release of the seamen from gaol. Peter McCarthy has been acquitted of the charge of rape at Panmure. New Plymouth, Friday. At the native meeting at Punelm on Tuesday, To Motu, the rival prophet to Te Whiti, addressed an assembly in his temple, decorated with carved images, which were mostly draped. He was robed in white ; over his robe were skins, and over these a silk scarf and a Forester’s regalia. He preached on the lost sheep and the lost piece of silver, drawing lessons of contentment, and concluded by exhorting to forgetfulness of all distinctions, and the pursuit of unity and peace. The prophet has been fasting, and is very weak. He was very hospitable to his European and Maori guests. Nelson, Friday. Captain Heffer, superintendent of the Lunatic Asylum, fell dead this morning while dressing. A kick he received from one of the patients some days ago is supposed to have led to his death. An inquest will be held. TIMARU, Friday. At a special meeting of the Harbor Board to-day it was resolved to call for tenders, to be in by November 11, for a second section of 35hft. of the breakwater, which will extend it 820 ft,, and give 10£t. 6in, of water at low spring tides. The tender of Findlay and Co., of Dunedin, at £4 15s. 4d. per ton, was accepted for 1000 tons of cement, the only other tender being that of Guthrie and Larnach at £4 16s. Bd. per ton. Dunedin, Friday. The New Zealand Mercantile Agency have received the following cablegram, dated London, 7th October :—“ The wool market is unchanged. There is little private inquiry. Wheat is firm, and best Adelaide is worth 575. per 4961bs ; New Zealand ditto, 555, Tallow is quiet; stock of all sorts, 15,000 casks ; best mutton is quoted at 355.; beef, 325. The leather market is firm ; stocks are light, best sides are worth 10^d.” Seven bankruptcies have been filed this week, but all for small amounts. The Governor has promised to become patron of the Agricultural Society. The sura of £136 was to-day handed over to the Mayor (Mr. Walters) by the master of the Middle District School, in trust for the Misses Wilson. This was the proceeds of a recent entertainment. Waters’ trial for arson and murder will come off on Monday. The jury of twenty-four have been summoned. The [Registrar has decided that their remuneration is to be the same as that of common jurors—three shillings per day.