CHRISTCHURCH.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2601, 9 May 1877, Page 2

CHRISTCHURCH.

Tuesday.

At the Akaroa Magistrate's Court on Friday a most barefaced case of perjury oecured. Adams was sued by H. G. Watkins for an account of £79 for jewellery, &c.,. supplied to his wife and adopted daughter. Both the latter swore distinctly they had never bought any goods, the latter, a JMiss Henderson, asserting that they had been given her by a Mr Delamain, to whom she was formerly engaged. Watkins produced witnesses who proved to the contrary, and ultimately Mr Williams, counsel for "the defendant, said it was no use calling further evidence, as there was sufficient to show that the statements made by Mrs Adams and by Miss Henderson were false. If the bench would say no information would be laid for perjury, they should be recalled, and would retract all they had sworn to. The Bench declined to give such an assurance.. Criminal proceedings* have since been instituted against both the females. ■ - This day. \.'<j a meeting of the Acclimatisation Society yesterday it was resolved: " That an application be made to the Auckland Society to join in importing a hundred thousand ova, 50,000 being salmon ova and 50,0 CD sea trout; and if possible 50,000 brook trout as well." The discussion on education, at the meeting of the Canterbury and Westland Presbytery last night", resulted in favor of urging the Presbyterian Assembly to petition the Government for a religious but unsectarian system of national education.

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