TELEGRAMS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1241, 9 April 1880, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.) WELLINGTON, - April 8. At the Supreme Court In Chambers this afternoon, Mr. Travers applied : for a writ of habeas corpus to bring from Dunedin Winiata Parata, one of the Maori prisoners lately sent there from Wellington. The object is to test! the legality of the detention of the prisoners. argument, his Honor said it was usual to make an application of the kind to the judge of the district where the prisoner was confined, but if the Crown waived objection on this score, he would grant a rule nisi. _ The application was then adjourned till information on the subject was obtained. A Royal Commission for the Melbourne Exhibition has been appointed, consisting of his Excellency the .Governor, Dr. Hector, the Mayor, and Messrs. Dransfield, Lemon, Levin, M'lntyre,. Krull, Thomson, and Tolhurst, ; Messrs. Beasley and Cook, the delegates appointed by the Canterbury Working Men's Association to inspect the lands! open for selection in the North Island under deferred payments, left to-day in the Taiaroa for Taranaki, They will afterwards visit Auckland. The Government provide passages. At a meeting to-night it was resolved-to form an Ice Company. It was stated that nearly the whole of the required capital had already been subscribed. A committee was appointed to canvass the town for the remainder. April 9. The Times states that a rumor is current that Major Willis has resigned his seat for Rangitikei and that Sir William Fox is iikely to come forward and be elected without opposition, The charges made against the superintendent of the Asylum for cruelty to patients has been dismissed. At the Supreme Court, George Ward Beere, charged with fraudulent bankruptcy, was acquitted, CHRISTCHURCH. April 8.

Cameron Brothers' lighter, which sank in Lyttelton Harbor early in March, was raised and towed in to Diamond Harbor to-day, Graham Flowers, whose name has been repeatedly mentioned in connection with a cattle stealing case, was remanded by the R.M. to-day to Rangiora, bail being allowed in LSOO, and two sureties of L 250 each.

April 9.

The session of the General Synod will tie opened by the Primate of New Zealand on Tuesday next. The Bishop of Nelson will preach at the evening service. In reply to a deputation which waited upon the Premier yesterday, re building a bridge over the Heathcote, Mr. Hall said that the Bill referring to the matter has to be reintroduced during the coming session as a private one.

DUNEDIN. April 8. The whole of the Studholnte cases, in which damages were claimed for compensa? tion arising out of the great Waimate bush fire, have been withdrawn. The Otago Harbor Board have been informed that the money paid by them as land tax will be refunded by Government. April 9. Three common Jury cases are set down for trjal duping tlip Ciyil One is a divorce case, the parties being connected with the police a strong bar is engaged. > The average attendance of scholars in the Otago district schools during the March quarter was 15,472,. showing an increase of 1633 with the corresponding period of last year. AUCKLAND. April 9. A charge of indecent assault against Stephen Hughes, jun., solicitor and collector of the Ponsonby Board, will occupy the Supreme Court all day. The charge is brought by a girl sixteen years old, engaged as q, spryant in his house. The girl fainted while under crossexamination this morning. She said Hughes had never taken liberties with her before this occasion and that he had once discharged a man of whose conduct she had complained. NELSON, April 9. A summons was served on Mr. Acton Adams this morning for perjury. The perjury is alleged to have been committed during the hearing of a civil action, - J .dams v. Boyes, for wrongful sale by Mr. Edward Thomas, the present informant, of certain sheep, over which he had given a bill of sale to Adams, but whiph bill of sale Thomas alleged he had satisfied by reason of Mr.- Adams having 1 sold other property which as much as the total amount foe was indebted to Mr. Adams. . The,.case of Adams v. Boyes was heard last February in the District Court, anjd the plaintiff obtained judgment, but there has sinoe then been litigation between Boyes Thomas, when Boyes was non-suited. NEW PLYMOUTH. April 8.

The Minister for Public Works, accompanied by Mr. Blackett and other gentlemen, proceeded to Waitara thjs morning by train for the purpose of inspecting the proposed works site there. : A meeting of natives was held , yesterday, when Mofcu addressed his people. His speech was characterised by warm expressions of friendliness towards the pakeha, and was more ■than ever opposed to Te Whiti. About 150 were present. The- natives at :the settlement evince friendliness toward? the Armed Constabulary by constantly presenting food.- The roads at - Pun to are being rapidly pushed on by the efforts of the men sent from Wellington and the Armed Constabulary. ; The Herald's Ha\yera correspondent wires this morning; '(,j?arris and the Chief Surveyor started this mornipg to put surveyors to cut out the reserves for the Maoris on the Waimate Plains,. The reserves are very large indeed—something like 30,000 acres. The most open land \vill be reserved for the Government, leaving clearings in the bush. Not the slightest opposition to the surveyors is expected to-day. Everything has a satis-

factory appearance for the occupation of the plains. ■ April 9. Nominations for the Taranaki Derby for 1883, of 100 sovs, for three year olds close to-morrow. The Minister for Public Works visits the harbor works this morning and will receive a deputation re the West Coast railway to Hawera afterwards.