NEW ZEALAND.

Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1612, 21 April 1879, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND.

[per press agency.]

Auckland, April 4.

The Board of Governors of the Grammar School meet to-day to consider a writ served by the Improvement Commissioners. As _ the questions discussed involved legal proceedings, reporters were excluded. _ In reply to a question if a Crown grant of a reserve were set aside, to whom wotdd the land revert, Judge Fenton said to the Crown. A son of the late Kev. John Crossley, formerly of Waikato, was charged wit a larceny of a lady’s cloak at the Police Court to-day. He had been previously convicted of forgery. Hutton and'Spamux, a half-caste of Taranaki, are to run a race for <£loo, .£lO deposit. The race is fixed for the 10th of May. The distance is to beJdOO yards. At a meeting of creditors of W. H. Farnall to-day, the liabilities were stated to be .£3OOO, of which .£2500 are secured. Against this Famuli put in as a set-off a claim of £ll5OO against Government. Wellington, April 21. A man named Bell was yesterday arrested for being drunk in St. Paul’s church. The “ New Zealander,” in an article against colonial federation, says—“ Colonial Governors, in spite of theoretical views to the contrary, aro assuming more and more the right to take active or modifying control in the affairs oi. the colonies to which they are sent. The “New Zealand Times” says that, in spite of a certain degree of commercial depression here, the labor market is still but scantily supplied. Riotwarry. Judge Thomas, in a long letter to the “ Times,” re-opens the question of Biotwarry, and argues that in all he has done ho waa actuated by pure and disinterested motives. Ha promises to put the main points oi: the system before the public in a second letter. A New Appointment. It is stated that Mr Porword has accepted tha appointment of District Judge and Resident Magistrate for Wellington offered him by the Government, conditionally on being permitted to appear in the Supreme Court in certain important cases for which he has been retained. [from our own correspondent,] Dunedin, April2L Mrs. Britten’s Lectures. Mrs Britten, the Free Thought and Spiritual lecturer delivered her first address in Dunedin last night. The Theatre was crowded. She ia a fluent speaker, but reveals nothing new. Bisliop MoranBThe Catholics of Dunedin yesterday presented Bishop Moran with an address on the occasion of his twenty-third year of his episcopate. In replying to the address, he characterised tho statements made by the “ Christian Kecord”,to tho effect that Catholic theologians taught lawlessness, as a foul lie. He intimated that ha would visit Borne in two years and would make arrangements for an additional supply of priests, nuns, and Christian Brothers.