INTERPROVINCIAL.

Evening Star, Issue 11680, 12 February 1902, Page 4

INTERPROVINCIAL.

j [Put Unitbd PbSss Association.] I NAPIER, Febrnary'l2. 1 At tho Supreme Cotrrt to-day Henry, Edward Dennett was found gralty, with a recommendation to mercy, of assault and robbery, and remanded for sentence, Norman George Cox, who pleaded guilty to the theft of £ls from the Post Office, was admitted to two years' probation. Kere and Ropiha, for indecent assault near Waipawa, were sentenced to three years' imprisonment; and Mita Reaata, Pura, for indecent assault near Mohaka, to one year's imprisonment. Reference was made during the hearing of these indecent assaults to the ignorance of the Maori of English law. On His Honor's suggestion the Crown Prosecutor undertook to draw the attention of the Department of Justice to the expressed desire of the natives that all laws affecting them should be printed in Maori and circulated throughout their settlements. AUCKLAND, February 12. The General Committee, formed at the meeting convened by Mr Witheford to arrange for a send-off to the Premier, have decided to cordially support the action at the mayor in calling a public meeting to endeavor to further the object. MASTERTON," February 12. A starling shot by an Opaki settler was found to be full of bot flies, proving that tho insect past is the bird's principal source of subsistence. WELLINGTON, February 12. George IS. Styles, who was tried at the Supreme Court to-day on a charge of firing a gun at his daughter, was found guilty of common assault, and ordered to come up for sentence when called on.