TRIAL OF HIROKI.

Patea Mail, 3 May 1882, Page 2

TRIAL OF HIROKI.

New Plymouth, this day,—ln Hie Supreme Court this the trial of Hiroki commenced for feloniously shooting and killing John M’Lean at Momahaki on the 19th September, 1878. Mr Samuels conducts the case for the Grown, and Mr Richmond appears for Hiroki. Mr Fraser, surveyor, at whose camp the decased was shot, is now giving evidence.

Band Contest, Christchurch. —A brass . band contest took place in the Exhibition building last night. Four bands competed, with the following result : Tituaru Artillery Band Ist, Christchurch'City Guards 2nd, ClirisL church Artillery Band commended. The attendance at ; the Exhibition yesterday was 5,357. Labor Strike-Dunedin;-r-Some twenty laborers on .the reclamation contract for the railwaj l, station site are,on, strike for 7,s a day.; They have been offered 6s 6d. SHIPWRECK AT TIMARUTimaru.—The barque Duke of Sutherland, lying Jn the roadstead, struck; the ground last evening and filled with water. She is still afloat, but the crew have left her. A very heavy sea is rolling in.

She was being loaded with grain, and had over 1000 sacks of wheat aboard shipped by the N.Z, Grain ; Agency Company, and was expected to sail on Thursday. The vessel was drawing 18 feel of water, and lying in a depth of 27 feet. Vessel and cargo wore fully insured. The vessel is a wooden vessel of about-1049 tons, and owned in London. The Harbormaster and Cnpl. Howlands with a .number of men are now on board. Later.—The crew have been taken off by boats. POLITICAL. Wellington.— Mr Rolleston is expected to return from the South on iWeduesday, and Mr Bryce from Wanganui'on Thursday. Sir William Fox, Commissioner under the West Coast Settlement Act, will visit here in the-course-of a few days. MR GALLAGHER’S TRIAL. i New Plymouth.—A true, bill has been found against William Gallagher, who will be tried before a jury for manslaughter in the native row at Manutahi hotel. Death of a Journalist; Palmerston North.—Mr J. B. Dungan, proprietor of the Manawatu Times, died of heait disease yesterday morning. 5