NEW ZEALAND. [BY TELEGRAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION. ]

Waikato Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2233, 30 October 1886, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND. [BY TELEGRAPH— PRESS ASSOCIATION. ]

NEW PLYMOUTH, Thursday. Thk criminal sessions of the Supreme s'ourt commenced to-flay. The calendar is light, there b6:ng only four cases. The rttOßt .serious one w, is a charge of conspnaoj against thiee Justices of the Peace. It «ns alleged they conspired toother to imprison Joshua Jones unlawfully. His Honour charged the Grand Jury to the effect th.it an attempt to subvert the law uasa most serious offence, and deserved the severest panishment. The Giand Jury must have some direct, clear e\ idf-nce, that the offence was committed betore they returned a true bill. \fti r a lon^ investigation the jury thren* nit the hill. The Court va 1 * occupied the \hhlti day in the ca"?e Kegi* a v. Hollywood for hor^e-steding, and had not concluded at eight p.m.

WELLINGTON, Thursday. Sir Julius Vogel will attend the Christchurch Races, and leaver on the nth prox. in tlte Hmemoa, with Hi 3 Excellency the Governor. A telegram from Otaki states that Hema PnUe Te Ao, M.H.R., is dangeruiibly ill, and not expected to lire the ni^'ht out.

DUNE DIN, Friday. The Premier left for Wellington by the Xoithem Expusa this morning. Mr Larnach rein »vis till the early part of next « eek. Sevtral declarations of insolvency were filed last week. The i states are all small ones.

INVERCARGILL, Friday. MrGeo. Gordon, manager of the Bays* water estate, near Otautau, was found drowned in J.icolt's ri\es- to-d iy.

NKLSON, Friday. A f.ital accident occuned last night. Win. Powell, an old resident, when lying across the tiamway in a btate of intoxication was ran over by a 'bus and killed instantaneously.