FORTY-FOUR YEARS TO-DAY

Evening Star, Issue 15293, 19 September 1913, Page 5

FORTY-FOUR YEARS TO-DAY

At a meeting of the committee of the Citizens’ Cricket Club it was resolved to erect a pavilion on the club’s netv ground, and tlie tender of Mr Mitchell for £43 9s was accepted. The club will open their j season on October 2 with a match Married v. Single..—From the ‘ Evening Star,’ September 20, 1869. ******«• An official inquiry into the loss of tho ketch Pearl was held on the 10th at Greymonth by Mr Andrews, acting Collector of Customs. After evidence had been taken, the following decision was arrived at:—“ That tho vessel was lost whilst, attempting to cross lha Grey River bar: that no blame is to bo attributed to the master of the Dispatch, and that every exertion was used by Captain Deare and tho crew of-the Dispatch to save the, lives of the crew of the Pearl consistent with the security of the Dispatch and tho lives of those aboard ; that the accident occurred by a heavy sea striking the vessel on the 'starboard side and filling tho sails, which were ‘scandalised’; that no blame can Ire attributed to the deceased Captain Gifford, but that he did all he could to sail the vessel in a scamaulike manner.” The principal feature of the criminal I session at Wellington was the trial of a i number of Maoris, who had been removed i from Napier, for treasop. The presiding | Judge laid down the dictum that whatever might be private opinion as to the occupation of the country by Europeans, or the state of the relations which existed between (he Imperial Government and the colony. Her Majesty exercised undoubted sovereignty over every part of the colony, and all living in it of either race, or wherever horn, owed her the rights of subjects. Even had the rebellion reached the length of a civil war. which it had not. it was impossible that the Maoris could claim belligerent rights. * * -:=■ * -» * * 9ho telegraph line between Wellington and Wanganui will soon be completed, and the line be opened for sending messages in about a month’s time.