CHARGE OF MANSLAUGHTER

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8446, 23 May 1907, Page 5

CHARGE OF MANSLAUGHTER

By Telegraph—Press Association

CHRISTCHURCH, May 22,

At the Magistrate's Court, to-day. William Barnard Rhodes- Moorhouse was brought up, on remand, on a charge of manslaughter. Mr Stringer, in opening the case for the prosecution, said that at the last criminal sitting of the Supreme Court the Grand Jury, in face of the most explicit directions from the Judge and for reasons oqst known to themselves, threw out the bill against the accused. The facts of the case were simple. The accused rode a motor bicycle along a public portion of the New Brightdn beach at the terrific pace of somewhere about sixty miles an hour and killed a child named Gourlay. He hoped accused would be able to satisfy a jury that the death of the child was not attributable to his criminal negligence, but it must be done in broad daylight in open r court, and not in the privacy of the Grand Jury room. After hearing the evidence, Mr Day, S.M., said he thought accused showed negligence in riding at the speed alleged, and committed him for trial. Bail was allowed, accused in £IOO and one surety of £IOO.

A few years ago, says Mr T. Mackenzie, . M.H.R., we had not an uncertificated teacher in Otago. Now we have G80; in 1894 the colony had 162, last year it had 349, this year it has 680.

Sixty-seven years ago on Tuesday last, Governor Hobson proclaimed British sovereignty over the islands of New Zealand. Although officially the colony is thus 67 years old, it was practically a recognised British possession some years earlier. In 1834 —on March 20th, to be explicit—the British (lag was raised at Kororareka, in the Bay of Islands, and honoured by H.M.S. Alligator with a salute of 21 guns. It may be interesting to state how this, the first flag of New Zealand, was selected. Mr James Busby, the agent for the New South Wales Government, submitted three flags to"an assembly of Maori chiefs for their choice, and they selected the St. George's Cross on a white ground with the upper canton next the staff, having a blue ground with a red cross and white star on each square. This is the flag which was flown at Kororareka in March, 1834, and it was also the flag" used by the New Zealand Settlement Company when it landed at Port Nicholson (Wellington) in 1839. On this latter occasion the flag was also given a 21gun salute by the British warship Tory. It will thus be seen that the proclamation of sovereignty in 1840 was only the official recognition of what had virtually been an accomplished fact years before.

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