Telegraphic.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3336, 16 October 1889, Page 2

Telegraphic.

Eotorua Township.

Auckland, October 15,

The Government have concluded negotiations with tbo Natives at Kotorua for the purchase of that township the price agreed upon being £9OOO. Mr Lewis, Under-Secretary for Native Affairs, and, a Bank of New Zealand official, by a constable, have left for Rotorua/sj taking the.purchase money with them. THii WREMIER. . Wellington, Wednesday. 'lhe for Taranaki this morning, Hfls expeoted back on Tuesday, when he will leave for ■ Nelson almost immediately. RICH SPECIMENS,

Wellington, Wednesday. ■ Mr Skey lias received some silv«L -ore from Maratoto. The pieces aivs-

only small,butthe analysis gives aaton* ishing results, In one instance the proportion is at the rate of 75 oz of gold, and 3,298 of silver to the ton, and in another 55 oz of gold arid 4,526 of silver, The exact nature of the ore is being being further investigated. Specimens will he sent to the Dunedin Exhibition. •Going for Johnny. , ■ ■ • Ji, Dunedin, October 15. Six lads, whose ages ranged from 14 to 17, were to-day fined for assaulting a' (Ihiuaman, They were the ringleaders of a gang, who, meeting John, chased him, pelting him with Btones,by one of which he was severely cut. One lad named Seal was lined L2, and on another charge LI, half to go to tho Ohinaman.Tho boys were evidently part of an organised ganj; of larrikins and they had tried to intimidate a witness by threatening to give him a doing if ho gave evidence.

Criminal Sittings. Wanganui, October 15. J His Honor the Chief Justine oponcf tlio criminal sittings of the Supremo Court to-day. The criminal calendar is rather heavy, and true bills wore found in the following cases:—Pat. Dillon,carnally knowing, two charges; W, Baird Drummond, larceny, two charges; Hertaua Matenga, a Maori, iorgery; W. Swayne Fleetwood breaking and entering; W. McDer*mott, rape; W. Whelan, false pro. tcnces; Daniel Phillips, larceny; Charles W. Langstone. forging and uttering; Thomas Naughton, alias McNauglitsn, abduction, fiobert Siookivell Hassell, arraigned on two charges of forgery, pleaded guilty. On the application of the counsel the prisoner was admitted on probation undor the First Offenders Probation Act, a settler entering into a bond of £SO for him for six months, W. Baird Drummond pleaded guilty to two charges of larceny, and was sentenced to eight months' hard labor, both to run contemporaneously. Daniel Phillip pleaded net guilty to a charge of stealing a. horse, saddle, and bridle, and the case occupied the Court till rising. In the case 0. H, Ashworth, for converting moneys of Stephen CairjA*' to his own use, he acting as the prosecution fell through, ow'ihy to no indictment being ecut in, It appears that Mr Jellicoe refused at the, last moment to attend the Court'fltk Wanganui, so the prosecutor had n7 time to get other counsel. The prosecutor applied to the Bench for an adjournment of the case till the next sitting of the Supreme Court, but his Honour said he could not do this, as it was the fault of the. prosecutor's counsel. Later on his Honor told Carrick that ho had sent in no indictment. He was legally liable to a penalty of 1100, but under, the. circumstances of his counsel being to blame; no doubt the Court would not press the penalty. The fact of Mr Jellicoe not appearing or presenting the indictment caused much surprise