AUCKLAND NEWS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 3024, 1 December 1891, Page 2

AUCKLAND NEWS.

(BY. TELKOIUI'H.—OWN COItRKHI'ONDKNT.) Auckland. Last Night. At the Supreme Court Criminal .Sessions to-day the judge in his charge stated tho list was an unusually small one. In the indictment against W. Bindon (adjourned from last session) the Crown Prosecutor rose ar.d referred to the hßnring of the charge and said ho would enter a "nolle prosequi." His Honour simply discharged the accused. Kate Odium, indicted tor concealment of birth at tha Thames Wai admitted to probation fm , twelve months. Ellen Howard, alias Power, charged with Mie larceny of a cash-box containing jewellery, money, pins, etc., on the 2(ith of August, 1891, the property Myer Goldwater, pawnbroker of Victoria-stroet, wan •"Rntencad to six mouths' imprisonment. Victor Hugo, charged with breaking and entering the dwelling-house of Hemi Pakarua at Rotorua, was sentenced t<l nine months' imprisonment. In the cluirge of concealment of birth against Esther Beazley and Elizabeth IJoazlny, the jury returned no bill, and His Honour remarked that tho case ought not to have been sent for trial by the justices. The Grand Jury retnrned true bills in tho following cases :—Daniel Simpson, breaking and entoring ; Fredk. Thomas, manslaughter; Edward NlcOinley, attempted murder. Henry James Atkins, indicted that he did steal fr.nn the dwell-Sng-housa of E. \V. l'avlon, at Uevonnort, sevcrul articles of jewellery of tho value ot £40, was sentencod 11 two years' imprisonment.

Mr Ewington as Secretary of the Kmplovers' Association, wrote to the Premier, asking the correctness of the Wellington telegram stating that tho Government had yielded to the demands made upon them to pay the men engaged on the relief works at Palnatua more than they wera entitled to upon the basis of measurement of the work actually done. Mr Ewin»ton to-day received a reply from the Premier in which he states that " when tho officer appoint >d by the Government to measure the works at Pahiatna th.it wera in dispute, imported it was found that he could not say with certainty whether the surveyor, who originally measured the work, was right or not. and under the circumstinces it was concluded that it would be better to offer the men half tho difference betweon them and the survoyor rather than proceed further with tho nuttjr or allow it to go to court. This was accepted by the men." Tha Canterbury Association are negotiating with the Government to obtain a large area known as the Whakatane swamp. They propose to place fifty families possessing means on the land, to drain and cultivate it under settlement conditions. There is every prospect of the negotiations being successful.