LATER SOUTHERN TELEGRAMS.
GOODISON CONVICTED.
SITTINGS OF THIS SUPREME
COURT
MAETIN" ACQUITTED
SEWELL LIKELY TO JOIN THE MINISTRY AS SOLICITORGENERAL.
WELLINGTON.
June 8.
The Supreme Court was engaged the whole of yesterday trying the case of Edward Fitzgerald Martin, for rape upon a girl of eleven years of age. The jury did not agree until 11 p in., when they returned into court with a verdict of " not guilty." This decision gave general satisfaction. The case against the G-oodisona and Hunter has occupied the Court a)l to-day. The Independent contradicts the statement as to the appointment of Mr. Dudley Ward as District Judge, Hokitika. Is is rumoured that Mr. Sewell is to join the Ministry as Solicitor-General, with a seat in the Legislative Council. The Post says : — The Government ps. Luna, Captain Fairchild, arrived yesterday evening from Napier, bringing the Hon. 1). McLean, Captain Luke, Messrs. R. McLean, Major Ropata, Morgan, two other chiefs, two prisoners, and about thirty natives. She sails this eiening for the Manakau direct, and will return with his Excellency the Governor. His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint Singleton Rochfort, Esq., to be District Judge for the District Court of Hawke's Bay.
Messrs. Rhodes, Pharazyn, and Fitzherbert, have met the Melbourne Chamber of Commerce on the subject of the San Francisco Mail Service.
Mr. George Sisson Cooper has been appointed Under-Secretary for the colony of Sew Zealand.
At the sittings of the1 Diocesan Synod at Wellington a resolution was adopted—" That Archdeacon Hadfield be nominated to the vacant Bishopric."
In the cattle stealing case, the learned Judge said that the sentence on Hunter was in respect of the first indictment six years' penal servitude ; and, in respect of the second indictment, four years' penal servitude, to commence from the expiration of the first sentence. On William Goodison the sentence would be three years' penal servitude, and after such a warning ne hoped that other persons connected with the prisoners if ould see the propriety of speedily finding their way to some other part of the world.
The jury found Robert Q-oodison "not guilty." Mr. Gregory, who recently gave a Maori hapu a strong dose of mercury and jalap, has been discharged by the grand jury at Wellington.
Mr. Lowry, of the Nag's Head Hotel, has died from the effects of his fall.
The Advertiser is now published as a full sized journal —twenty-eight columns, and promises to be a very powerful rival to the Independent. ,
LATER SOUTHERN TELEGRAMS.
Auckland Star, Volume I, Issue 134, 14 June 1870, Page 2
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