NEW ZEALAND.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2235, 4 November 1886, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND.

[BY TLI EMiAPH — PRESS ASSOCIATION.] NEW PLYMuUTH, Tuesday. Ix the Dnoice Court a decree al. solute vas gianted iti the c.ise of Hickman v. Hickiran and Ea\en)iill. This closed the i-.ttinga of the court.

BLENHEIM, Tuesday. At the Supreme Court Ju&Hce Richmond sentenced two lads, Baiker and llar\ C'3 r , to two years, for hoise stealing and foigery. He remarked tnat he did not bjie\i. in the reformatory influences of police sin \eill.inee ; lotas responsible people weie willing to take charge of the boj s. he would report to the Government on their case, in which there were technical difficulties in the way of adopting the Probation Act. The Board of Educition lias passed a resolution approving of the suggestion of the Otago Board, that mspectoi* be interchanged between districts. Constant reference was made by members of the hoard to the continued school troubles in Blenheim, as showing the need of a change in the s>9te'n of inspecting.

! CIIRISTCHCRCH, Tuesday. The Diocesan Synod closed its session this evening. The Pinnate, in his concUuling remarks, regretted that there had been a tendency to look too much at financial matteis, while the spintual inteiests of the diocese hid been lather left out of si^ht. Wi .Inesday. At a meeting of the Hospital Board to> da> a lettei wms road fiom the Inspector i>f Pnsoi.s. s.t iting thitthe Minister of Juatice «,ii.l tiiere was no rtason to alter his opinion that delninin ti emeus cjs>es j could lawfully be ifinandel to the hospital lor tieatnunt, and that therefore such leases would not be admitted into the prison after Match 81st ntxt. Ihe board decided to communicate w ith the other hospital boatds in the colouy, with a view of concerted action being taken to prevent hospitals being used for the reception of these casv.s.

TIMARU, Tuesday. A young man named Richard Dale, said to be one of ,1 gang of S3 clney s-peelers, wts committed tor trial to day for the lobbeiy of £-10 from the person of Robert Ronnie-, coal miner, of Biunner* ton, on or about the 23th • ctober.

DUNE DIN, Tuesday. In a cv.se in wirJj a man was sued for ' o i '»ihii' neu^pfipet acc.unr, in which -' .- (juotiCia u,ij di-N,>'itcil ,\s to whether r.t h-ul {(nu.ttimaiKled the paper, tlnee judges i. f'iso.l liim leave of appeal on the ground tint they wished to discourage litigitioii.