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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1901, 5 February 1875, Page 2

Tun civil side list at the E.M. Court this morning was very limited. Of about eight eases on the . sheet, one only came before the Court,' the rnt being confessed, paid into Court, or settled out of Court. The police business was insignificant. Thr Rev Or. Brown, who has been em-

ployed is Mission work in Samoa for the last thirteen years, trill lecture in the Grahams-—-iewn-'W?eieyaa Church next Sunday afternoon. Mr Brown lectured in Auckland to a ]arg* audience, -and was requested to del ire r another lecture^ which was also very successful. The Auckland Press speaks of the lecture a» "in the highest degree instructive and entertaining." Mr B. leaves on Monday to proceed by the Hero to Sydney, to make arrangements for entering at once on his proposed Mission to the North of New Guinea. -

A Boabd of Enquiry, of which Major Lusk was President, w«s held on Wednesday evening at Parawei Camp, to consider tbe protest lodged against Lieut Skinner, Cham* pion The grounds of complaint were breaches •f the general rule*, in having measured his jMwier and tampered with his sights. Evidence, was taken, and it was conclusive as far as establishing the fact that the eights of the rifle used by Mr Skinner had been altered, but there was nothing to prove that the Champion had done it, the rifle hating changed hands a number of timea since it was issued from store. The Board decided that the protest could not lie sustained. It would seem that the sights «f. a number of rifles hare been trifled with or altered since they were issued, and it is a pity that a more care* fal examination of aras.was ror made before the firing commenced, as it would h*»e saved some unpleasantness amongßt the competitors, and steps ceuld have been taken to remove all grounds of objection.

THB;'paddla:;Vji: '««nier;/,:3Slißnaia;: ; |?ill--inakiß an excursion to Ohineinuri ioinprrovr after* noon (instead of the La)la JRooltb, aa pra TJouslj adferfcised), leaying G-rahamß own Wharf at 4.30 in the afternoon, and returning on hunday etc ing by nine oelock. fl his trip offers tbe additional attraction of sleeping occommodation en board, and the use of the boat for meali, fee, as a temporary hotel.

Tn* case of; tho unfor'nhate F. G. Xieggetf, committed for trial yesterday for embezzle* ment/* appear a' to: hav<» excited universal symp»thy in Auokland for the accused, more •specially amongst those who have known him for years past in various capacities, and are all aware of the peculiar circumsturc«s by which be has been §U) rounded. Liggett waa always esteemed by th<>se who knew him best, as a man of unimpeachable honer"; generous to a fault when ho had means ; an! always ready to extend a helping hand to one in diitrecs. It is said that to a weakness in the later direction is due i» fome measure the act which hat placed him in his present pain/ul position.