AUCKLAND.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3442, 6 January 1880, Page 2

AUCKLAND.

Yesterday.

Supreme Court Sitting.

William Willetts, larceny at Thames, was sentenced to nine months' imprisonment; W.. Woodcock, stealing? gum and •hooting at bories at Northern Wairoa/ j 8 -uiths* imprisonment; Stephen „ "^ , L^ne, bis %ife and a man Home, stab.. «..„ ft . named Kaymonei j»* f * di| ment; John Coomer, stealing, ,^ , charged; Joseph Alexander Heyi*. Williams, stealing money from ii till, pleaded guilty, and on account of iiis youth, discharged without sentence,*upon finding two sineties of £50 each to appear whenever called upon by the Court. True bills were returned against—Hall, forging and uttering; Pembtrton, em*

bezzlement; William [Robertson, rape; Join Lyons, unlawfully wounding; Ptntin, beastiality; Matthew J. Hall (aliailfSandhurst Mirfield Hall), breaking and entering ; Te Ropiha, horse-stealing ; Duval, forging and uttering. Pastor Chiniquy. Pastor Chiniquy delivered another lecture at tho Choral Hall to-night. The .Rev. A/Carrick of St. Andrews presided, and pronounced a high eulogium on Chiniquy, whom he had known in Canada for some years. j At the close of the lecture Chiniquy said he would lecture at Otahuhu to-, morrow. He heard that violence would be threatened or attempted. He was seventy years of age, and a year or two more or less of* life would matter little to him, and he could not die in a better cause. It was rumoured that malcontents from the pensioner villages cf Howick, Panmure, and Onehunga intended going to Otahuhu, and suitable precautions are being taken to protect Chiniquy and prevent disturbances * Invitations to Lecture Communications. have been Deceived from Christchurcb, Hokitika, and Dupedin desiring a visit from Pastor Chiniquy, and be has signified his desire to go to these places, alter enquiring full particulars relative to the character of the population and other matters. This day. s Arrived: s.s. Zealandia. She left Sydney at half-past 12, on January 1, the weather being fine until the evening of the 3rd, when strong south-east Winds, which increased to a gale, accompanied by a heavy sea until rounding the North Cape on the sth. Passengers.,: For Auckland —Colonel Scratchley, Sir William and Lady Manning, Miss Manning, and .seventeen saloon, aud twenty-two steerage for San Francisco. , a