Local Intelligence.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XIV, Issue 1029, 8 May 1857, Page 2

Local Intelligence .

Native Feud. — For some time past » qn*rrel bas Been pending between two tribes, at Tsuranga, Bay of Plenty, relative to land. The dispute has unhappily eeme tq » crisis, two men having 6een «hot, and preparations being inaile for a ganeral attack. Many hundreds are in - Tolved in this feud. .

Native Meeting. — A great meeting is to be held at Ihumatao, in the neighbourhood of Mangere, on the occasion of the exhumation of the bonet of the late Jabez Bunting, chief of the Ngatitamsoho tribe. It is •nid that two or three thousand persons will be present. This gathering will take place in about three weeks. Farmers' Club. — The Auckland Farmer's Club held theit monthly meeting at the Exchange Hotel, on Saturday; when, after passing the accounts of the preceding year, they proceeded to the election of Office bearers for the current year. The gentlemen elected were Mr James Williamson, Chairman ; Mr. Joseph May, Vice-Chairman ; Major Matson, Treasurer ; and Mr. James Baber, Secretary. A vote of thanks wjs given to Major Matson and Mr. Smithies, the retiring Chairman and Vice-Chairman, for the anxious interest they hare ever manifested in promoting the prosperity of the Society ; and Mr. May intimated that he would prepare a paper on the subject of stubble burning, which he would read at the next meeting.

Albert Street Chapel. — It will be teen, by adrertisement in this day's paper, that the re-opening of Albertstreet Independent Chapel take* place on Sabbath next. From a late advertisement, we learn that the addition, in length, to the chapel, built three years ago, is 25 feet. The present dimensions are 60 by 33 feet. The building is lined and ceiled throughout with wrought timber, with vestibule across at the entrance. If will form a comfortable and commodious place of worship. We congratulate the minister and church on the fact of extended accommodation being so soon required, and on its being so expeditiously afforded. We understand that the cost of enlargement and improvement* will be about £400, towards which the church and congregation subscribed £300 when the undertaking was commenced. About 6 years ago there was no Independent minister, and only about half a dozen Independents could be found in Auckland. Now there are two commodious places of worship in the city, well attended, with a settled minister over each congregation.

Ladies' Benevolent Society. — We hare much pleasure in mentioning the fact that the ladies composing this society have already succeeded in collecting the sum of £186 19s. 4d., for benevolent objects; and instating also that any member of Committee frill be happy to, receive further contributions. Already the Committee have relieved several cases of distress ; they make it their business to search out such cases, unhappily too numerous ; and, as the winter advances, they anticipate many claims upon the funds of the Society.

Mr. Davis, late Native Int»rpretbr.— We are requested to state, on behalf of Mr. Davis, late Government Interpreter, who is now absent, that he spontaneously resigned office on the first day of the present month. Resident Magistrates' Court. — The business of this Court, in its civil jurisdiction, is now becoming enormous. Yesterday, the number of cases set down for trial exceeded sixty, and although several of these were settled out of Court, the number remaining was very formidable. At 4 o'clock, after a hard day's work, many of the cases, indeed, had to be postponed. It will readily be supposed that, under such circumstances, the duties of the Presiding Judge are of a very arduous character ; and it will as readily be seen that in reducing the salary of that gentleman, the Superintendent was actuated by other feelings than a regard lor the interests of the public. One trial— which involves a point of some importance, and which excited considerable interest — McDowell t>. Graham, was postponed till the next civil sitting of the Court. Young Men's Christian Association.— "We remind our readers of the lecture to be delivered this evening , bv the Rev. T. Hamer.

Robbery and Committal for trial.— On Wednesday, at the Court of the Resident Magistrate, Henry Budin, a brickmaker by trade and Belgian by birth, wai brought up on two charges of larceny— the prosecutor in both cases being two of his fellow workmen, and the scene of the theft Freeman's Say. Michael Buckett deposed that, on Friday last, he had £18 in his box ; the box was in a room where he, the prisoner, and two or three other bricktnakers slept. The prosecutor had occasion to leave town till Monday. On his return, he found his fellow workmen all idle, and, on his asking the reason, was in. formed that they had all been robbed. He then went home and found that he had shared the same fate, his box haring been broken open and its contents abstracted. Henry Lambert, the other prosecutor, deposed to hating lost £23 under precisely similar circumstances. Suspicion fell upon the prisioner ; and on being Uxed with the offence he tacitly admitted the impeachment, and declared his readiness to consider himself a prisoner. Part of the money was recovered by the police. In Court the prisoner, although cautioned in the usual way, admitted the theft. He waa committed for trial at the ensuing Criminal Sessions.

Mechanics' Institute. — On Monday evening a lee turt was delivered in the Hall of the Mechanics' Institute by Mr. Southwell, upon the subject of Phrenology. The lefcturer, while admitting the principles upon which this science is founded, considered, nevertheless, that popular phrenology was based on certain untenable hypotheses ; and, at considerable length, combated the leading phrenological ideas advanced by Mr. George Combe in hit "Constitution of Man" and other work*. The lecturer, as on former occasions, wat profuse in anecdote- and in forcible illustration, and succeeded, if

he did nothing-more, in entertaining a pretty numerous audience. At the conclusion of the lecture a discussion wu originated by Dr. Fischer, who took exception to tome of Mr. Southwell'* views upon phrenology, and 1 wm continued at tome length.

T?«t »Y x Maori.— On Wednesday, »t the Resident Magistrates* Court, a natire named Tuhunn was charged with hating stolen one pair of bootn, value 145., the property of Mr. Henry Neal. The prisoner admitted the theft and was ordered by the Court to pay four time* the, value of the stolen property, and immediately to leave the town— Mr. Beckham remarking, at the tame time, that he would not, in future, deal to leniently with cases of this description.

Sixths, Dbaths, asd Mahhtagbs. — The following appointment* are announoed in a "New Zealand GoTemment Gazette," published on PridaT: — Edward Cstchpool, to be Registrar under Ihe "Marriage Act, 1854, and Deputy-Registrar of Births, Deaths, and Marriages under the Registration Ordinance, Session 8, No. 9, for the District of Ahuriri ; and the following to be Deputy-Registrara under the same Ordinance, for the Districts set opposite their names : William B. 'White, Mongonui— the Rev. Thos. Lnnfear, ThamesGeorge M. Mitford, Kawhia— Walter Uarsant, RangU awhia— Herbert S. Wardell, Turanga (Poverty Bay)— and A. W. Shand, Chatham Islands.