DIVISION IN THE COUNCIL ON THE MINISTERIAL RESOLUTIONS.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XX, Issue 2305, 9 December 1864, Page 4

DIVISION IN THE C OUNCIL ON THE MINISTERIAL RESOLUTIONS.

The following aic the names of tlio members of the Legislate c Council wlio votoil in the division on Mr. Wliilakci's amendment upon the Ministeiial resolutions, the resolutions, as wo li.ivo slated before, being passed by a majority of one :— Mh Nob's Messrs GilfllUn Messrs Buchanan Hall Ci.iwfoid Kenny Outfield rollon Leslie Itussell Richmond Salmon feewell S« ainson fetokes Wnllon 'J'uncied Wlntakcr AVlutmorc Watts Jlussoll

At the Supreme Court yesteulay, W. F. M. Warden was chvrged with obtaining money under false pretences from Mr. Simpion, of Ngaiuawahia, on the sth of September, but the Ciown Prosecutor failing to adduce sufficient concliiMva evidence to substantiate tlio various counts m tlio indictment, pi isoner was acquitted. Michael If euslcy, a convict, was found guilty of a lobbery with violeuce on the pei sou of Georgo De.vden, turnkey of the bbockaclo, by binding linn with flax, in the Government Domain, in company with another prisouer, — since escaped a second timp, — thieatemng him, and stealing his levolver. li isoner was undergoing a sentence of four yenis' penal s>oi vifcude for a robbety at the Haipof Eun, and was &entenced to undergo four more years at the expiiation of that teim. A bccoiul indictment, charging tho prisoner with a breach of prison rules by effecting his escape, was not gone into owing to a legal point anting, thiough tho escape being effected fioin tho Domain giounds. AViiham Heai ndeu was chacged w ith stealing a horse, the property of a native, at Oralcei, and found guilty. .Mr. Merrimau L aid that in this case it unfoitiiuatel/ happened that the horse—like the convict; in the last case — was not foi thooming, having bean again stolen last night. Ho was fortunate in getting the materials for the proaecubtou, but uuforttm.ito in procuring hit evidence. Prisonei wai sentenced to two yeais' imprisonment. Four of the pruo fightera next surrendered to their bill, and weio nmigned on a . chaige of liiisdemcanour in engaging in and aiding and abetting a bieuch of tho peace at a oeifciuu puze light near Auckland, niunoly, Ooorgo Cooper, William Riohaulaon, H. T. Duilorty, and Thos. Milner. Peter I hoinpson and Kiohard Hill failed to appear and forfeited their riioognizanco^ They wcio each seiitencod to 0110 month in the eomm.ui gaol. This closed tlio Imsino^s of tho criminal so.smoii, and tho Court rose. No hi]! was returned by the »rand jury in tha case of William I3lldus Bennett (Oaptam Ist "VYaikiito iMUitia), oliavged with ombezzlemonti of QQYerpment wonoy^.' ' j

"li is expected tb'at tttereTwil^Ue^ genisraf suspension of business to-day during the meetiug to consider the present crisis in public affairs. All the banks and the principal bnsiuess house* in Auckland have agreed to close their^plaees of* business, during the meeting, an example which, it is to he hoped, will be generally followed. A platform has been erected in front of the old Court-house, and the meeting will co nmence at noon of this day. , Our Mongonui correspondent furnishes us with. . the following items of news :—"I: — "I ani #ad to lepoit that W. B. Wlnto, Esq., 11. M., expects in a shoit tune to conclude' tho purchase, of ,one of the finest blocks'intheNoith, f-ituated in Victoria Valley Ho has already been able to secnio two or thiea small pieces in (lift'eient part", which, no doubt, will eventually prove valuable acquisitions to tho" waste lands already in possession of the Government. The natives here nre very badly off, and have been living for some time to a great extent upon fern-root. They seem quite willing, and even anxious to sell some of their land* The barque ' Washington,' Capt. J. Wellard, arrived from the Antarctic, December Ist, having taken 500 barrels oil hinoe last here. The mate leaped overboard during a fit oE temporary derangement, and was drowned." A Provincial Government Gazette was published yesterday, containing lequisition to Superintendent and uotice of public meeting to be held to day, at; noon, at the old Court-house, to consider the present crisis in the public affairs of the colony; that Thomas Sparrow Caimichael has been appointed pilot for the port of Tamanga ; that Gold win Robert Breton has been appointed pilot and harbour-master at Port Waikato ; and that a sitting of the Supreme Court on insolvency will be held on the 20fch December, for the hearing of the petitious of Andrew Kerr, James Syviet, and Andrew Miller Dick. A correspondent sends us tho following : — " A meeting was held at Hendersons Redoubt, on the 23rd ultimo, for the purpose of forming a cricket club. JELircouit Caiter, Esq., was called to the chair, and was chosen as president. A treasurer, saciotary, and committee weie then elected, and twenty-five members were ent oiled. The next morning a meeting of the committee was convened for the purpose of taking into consideration the rules of the club. It was resolved that a meeting be held the day following, and the rules and regulations laid betore the members for their approbation. This was accordingly done, when one and all fully concurred in the measure? taken by the committee. The club is to be called the Hamilton Cricket Club. Ample funds were colleoted to defiay all the expenses; and tho president expressed his desire to see the club flouiish in the township of Hamilton, where it will ere long be located." The 'Auckland' is expected from Melbourne about the 18th with the English telegrams. "The Flying Dutchman and the Phantom Ship," with 'jjl'he Bonnie Fuliwifo," wererepeatel at the Theatre Royal last cveuing, before a good house.