LAST NIGHT’S WIRES.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 37, 11 January 1884, Page 2

LAST NIGHT’S WIRES.

[Pbb United PbeSs AssoctATtox.] Auckland, Jan, 10. The Collector Of Customs, Mr; Hall; held An enquiry into the sinking of the brig Restless Oii the rock at Mercury Bay; which accident occurred several weeks since. It appeared in evidence that the brig struck on the northeastern side of the centre island. A portion of her copper was torn off, and several planks damaged; so that she had to be run aground and patched up to enable her to come on to Auckland. She has been in dock here for several days, undergoing a general Overhaul. The extent of the damage is £6O. The evidence was forwarded to Welllington, Advices, dated Deo. 13, from Capt. Fisher, of the whaling barque Alaska, received at the Bay of Islands, reports his having been successful at whaling this season at the Chathams, taking 110 barrels of sperm oil, 500 barrels of right whale oil, and 3,oDolbs. of whalebone, At the Criminal Sessions, in the case of Whatataki, a Maori of Tauranga, charged with perjury, a verdict of not guilty was returned, and the prisoner discharged with a caution. Count Boldgna Strickland, a young Maltese nobleman, who arrived by the Rotomahana, from Sydney, left for the Lake country thia evening. He intends making a trip south, enquiring as to the opinion for a Maltese special settlement. By request of the mayor he visited the Sugar Works and Calliope Dock to-day. Dunedin, Jan; 10. In the Supreme Court to-day, a man named Newton was convicted of abusing a child aged twelve, and sentenced to seven years’ penal servitude and twenty-five lashes, He gave his age as forty-five years; Ah Chew pleaded guilty to burglary, and was sentenced to four years’ penal servitude. The big dredge has been able to work only four hours on the bar since the 26th October, aud the bar has shoaled two feet in that time. The Tarawera sailed to-day on an excursion to the West Coast Sounds. She took 88 from Dunedin, 5 from Oamaru, 19 from Christchurch, 4 from Wellington, 1 from Nelson, 9 from Auckland, i from Hobart, 30 from Melbourne, 8 from . Sydney, and 1 from England. Westjort, Jan, 10, A rush has set in to Larrikin’s Creek, Upper Mokinui, where Carson and party obtained their gold. All the men employed on the harbor works have left, also some from the coal mines, besides other laborers. The ground is pegged out on each ride of the prospectors. The new ground is situated 21 miles up the river from the beach, ten miles of which is very rough travelling. Waimatb, Jan. 10. A batch of larrikins received a severe lesson at the Magistrate’s Court this morning. It. was proved that they visited a farmhouae about 2 a.m. on New Year’s day and kicked up a tremendous row ; hurled stones on the roof and through the windows, doing damage to ’ the amount of £2. On the farmer remonstrating he was called outside and knocked down, and struck several times. _ The offenders, four in number, were fined in the maximum penalty of £5, with the alternative of a month’s imprisonment, the R.M. stating that he was determined to put down the nuisance of larrakinism. Christchurch, Jan. 10. Mr. Eowe’s corn and produce store, at the corner of Tuam and Manchester Street, was on fire this morning. The stock was insured for £4OO in the Australian Mercantile Union; building, £750, and engine and chaff cutter, .£250, in the Standard. The damage to the stock is estimated at £2OO, to the building and machinery £lOO. The Supreme. Court was occupied all day Arith the trial of Daniel Maydwell, for false pretences. He was acquitted. Wellington, Jan. 10. Mr. W. P. Street, of Dunedin, has been appointed a visiting Justice to the Dunedin Gaol. Extracts from the regulations respecting the introduction into Victoria of New Zealand cattle are gazetted. The Hon. W. Rolleston, Mr. James McKerrow, and Mr. W. L. Buller have been elected Governors of the New Zealand Institute. The following additional subjects of examination for admission as barristers are gazetted, signed by the whole of the Judges, in pursuance of “The Law Practitioners' Act, 1881, Amendment Act, 1883.” It is prescribed that persons who have taken the degree of Bachelor of Laws, as mentioned in the said Act, shall be required to answer questions proposed for candidates for admission as barristers in subjects 8 and 7, rule 11, of rules and regulations under the “Law Practitioners’ Act, 1882.” At the performance of the Mother Goose Pantomime last night, Mrs. Stanfield, who represents Mother Goose, had a nasty fall in the transformation scene, through the trap carrying away. Fortunately, she escaped with only a few bruises. The late Mr. Montieth was buried to-dav. with military honors, and there was a large attendance.