NEW ZEALAND.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2667, 7 October 1881, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND.

(Per Pbess Association.) Supreme Court. Auckland, Oct. 7._ A Supremo Court jury found a verdict of not guilty in the case of Sodritzry, charged with rape on a Maori woman. The Judge said prisoner should never have been committed. The case against Stcbr, for embezzlement, is now going on. The Native Difficulty. Opunake, Oct. 7. Mr Rolleaton is at Pungarehu, and has everything in readiness for an expeditionary movement. The Natives in great numbers are still holding the disputed land. The course of events will be known when the fences are pulled down. The Natives keep a strict watch on the Constabulary’s movements. The distances of all commanding positions around Pungarehu are ascertained in the event of the Natives occupying them. Hawbra, Oct. 7. The land sale is attracting buyers. More ploughing is reported from Otakeho, but it is said to be on former reserves which have not been sold, *he volunteer corps are drilling nightly throughout the district. Electoral* Mr Hutchinson last night had a well attended meeting, and votes of confidonco and thanks wero proposed, the former being carried. Found Drowned. Dunedin, Oct. 7. John Price is supposed to have committed suicide on Sunday evening, by jumping off the punt at Albcrton into the Clarence river. Prevention. Better than Cure, At the City Court this morning, Win. Alexander was charged'with attempting suicide by taking laudanum. Accused said he took it for medicinal purposes. The Bench bound him over in his own surety for £SO, and ordered the insertion in the newspapers of a notice cautioning publicans against supplying him with drink. Permanent Building Society. A case of some importance to buildin" 1 Societies was decided by Mr Simpson, R.M.,who delivered judgment to-day in the case Permanent Building Society v Rose, nonsuiting the plaintiffs. His Worship stated his opinion with regard to the first item claimed, viz., that defendant, should refund profits credited to him during the year 187 J-bO, that the amount was not recoverable, being based upon opinions and calculations admittedly only approximately correct. The second item claimed was not. His Worship considered, the ascertained proportion of the deficiency for which defendant would be liable, and lastly the balance sheet upon which the clairn was made had not been audited in the terms of the regulations, and could he thus in no way binding upon the defendant.