LATEST SOUTHERN NEWS. New Plymouth, Tuesday.

Waikato Times, Volume V, Issue 304, 23 April 1874, Page 2

LATEST SOUTHERN NEWS. New Plymouth, Tuesday.

PJjuioulli, Tiicsdny. The Supreme Court opened yo.-terrlny. Judge Richmond, in his charge to the Jury, deprecated holding Circuit Courts in smnll di'-tni-'-s There arc l«o cnse-« onlj on the Cnlendnr. The Grand Jury threw out the biil lor ai.son, and found a trtio bill against Jolm Rmlmg for attempted suicide. The prisoner was sented to ms months imprisonment. Wellington, Tuesday. The Mongol Commission has concluded. The report will be sent into the Government on Thursday next. Very few licenses were opposed at tho Licensing Meeting to-dny, and those that were, were objected to by the police only, and not by tlie Good Templars. Nelson, Tuesday. There was no opposition, offered at the Licensing Cpurt to-day. All the licenses weio granted. The s.s. Tnraraa brings the Bisbep of Nelson, as a passenger. HoLitikn, Tuesday. The Provinpinl Engineer etf imatei the damage done to tlie Christeliurch and West Const ronrl by tho lato floods at £5,339. Ho recommends the Conncvl not to repair it, as some portions will always be liable to be washed away, ai.d suggests a deviation at a cost oi £10,2G5. Lyttellon, Tuesday. Mr Montrrnnnery'* return to tlie Gcner.il Assr-mblj is certain. The returns coming in show him to have 113 votes; Pilhet, 37. Okain'» Bay is still wanting, but will suell the li»t.

Chustchurch, Tuesday. The p >llmg for the election ofa membt r ol the G-euornl A-voiiibly for ALaroa yesterday refilled — Montgomery, 168 ; Pilliel, 70. l'lu- otllees of the Board of Education were broken into on Sunday, inul £35 abstracted fiom Sho cash-box. The! en cum tunces of the robbery shor that the thief must h<ivo been thoroughly conversant witl the practice of the Board m money inal#oij, and a knowledge where the money wat kept. IXincdin, Tuesday. At the Licensing Court to-dw there \vm a full Bench. Mr Eathgate was in the chair. He spoke nearly nn hour very generally against the prevaleuo of drunkenness, which he said, led to so much crime. Ie said any private householders might take steps to shit up public-houses if they were nuisnmei. He spoke in favir of the establishment of an inebnttj asylum, which would be less cost to the Government thin having to keep drurbard* Ooiistantly in prison. The remedy should not be wholly jf a i'epressire nature. Inaddition to our schon 1 * and University, cnir Museum should be improved. A gallery of fine arts, should be added, a public library established, and die oluebs of public recreation' should also be impiorod. Two joint* deserved immediate consideration, viz, \evy proper inuchinery to check adulteration, and 0/ thorough system o' supervision to prevent illegal traflle by especial revenue #fllcer of approved fidelity. A large number of applications wire refused. In tbe ease Iforit&r v. Earliig, kri«d at the Supremo Court, for a brench of promise of marriage, a verdict for the plaintiff for £250 was returned. ?ors Olialmers, Tuesday. At a meeting of the Towi Cornell held last night, all the tendeisfor the \Fater 'Woks we-o rejected, new yluns ewe liko'y to bo prepared.