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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XX, Issue 3930, 12 June 1877, Page 2

At tlxe Supreme Court sittings yesterday, the Grand Jury found true bills in all the cases. On bringing in their last bill — tlxe one for forcible entry — his Honor asked whether they had any presentment to make. Their foreman, MiRhodes, having replied in tlxe negative, his Honor thanked them in the name of tlxe colony and dischai'ged them from further attendance. There were three cases tried. Archibald M'Eachan pleaded guilty to two indictments for larceny, and was remanded until this morning for sentence. John Haynxan was ti-iecl, first on the chax-ge of stealing a watch-chain, and then on the charge of stealing money. On tlxe latter chax-ge he was acquitted by direction of his Honor. Tlxe jury in the first case not having agreed when the second case wa3 concluded, the foreman was sent for, and he stated, in reply to his Honor, that there was no likelihood of tlxe jury agreeing. His Honor then said that he would send for tlxe jury to come into Coux-tat 10 o'clock. At tjiat hour his Honor took his seat on tlxe Bench. The jury then came in, and were asked whether they Avere likely to agree by midnight. They replied (through their foreman) in tlxe negative. His Honor then adjourned tlxe Court until this morning, at 10 o'clock. Shortly afterwards tlxe jury sent down word that they hadagx-eed to a verdict. His Honor, however, informed them that he regretted that it being a criminal case he could not take their vex*dict out of Court. Tlxe jury were therefore locked xxp until this morning at 10 o'clock.

At tlxe Resident Magistrate's Coxirt yesterday, before R. Stuart, Esq., R.M., Mary Ann M'Namara, alias M'Donald, convicted of tlxe larceny of a shawl at the Spit, was sentenced to one month's imprisonment with hard labor. James Kelly was remanded until Thursday on a charge of stealing a pair of boots on Saturday last. After the second case against John Hayman had been disposed of in tlxe Supx-eme Court yesterday, his Honor tlxe Judge mentioned to the Crown Prosecutor tlxe case of Archibald M'Eachan. He said that he had been looking through the depositions, and that he had observed that there had been levity — in one case gx-eat levity — shown in buj-ing of the prisoner M'Eachan the goods he had stolen. His Honor added that he might inform those gentlemen who had bought the goods that they ran a veiy gx*eat risk of being charged as receivers. Professor Taylor and Lillie had a crowded house at the Oddfellows' Hall last evening. The graceful skating of Lillie and of tho Professor elicited loud plaudits. This evening is their last appearance in Napier. On Thursday and Friday they appear at Waipawa. Tlxe Rev. D'Arcy Irvine, in his sermon on Sunday morning at Waipawa, took a review of some of the false systems of religion, including the Mohammedan imposture, as contrasted witli Christianity. The rev. gentleman was very severe in his strictures upon the Koran, and warned liis hearers in emphatic terms against the bold and impudent Pyrrhonism of tlxe present day, which he characterised as the outcome of the grossest and coarsest ignorance. The forthcoming number of The Nineteenth Century will contain, under the title of ■■ A Modern Symposium," a discussion on tlxe " The Influence of a Decline in Religious Belief upon Morality." Six- James Stephen, Lord Selbourne, Dr. Martineaxx, Mr Frederic Harrison, the Dean of St. Paul's, tlxe Duke of Argyll, and Professor Clifford will probably take pai't in the controversy, wliich is to be continued in following numbers by Professor Tyndall and Professor Huxley. Fourteen of the Revisers of the Authorised Version of the New Testament held a further session recently at the Deanery, Westminster, tlxe Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol being in the chair, and carried on their revision to the early part of tlxe Oth chapter of the Book of tlxe Revealation. Tlxe company appointed for tlxe revision of tlxe Authorised Version of the Old Testament recently finished their forty-third session at the Jerusalem chamber. Tlxe Dean of Canterbury, Mr Bensley, Mr Cheyne, Professor Chenery, Mr Elliott, Mr Geden, Dr Ginsburg, Dr Gotch, Archdeacon Harrison, Dr Kay, Professor Leathes, Mr Lumby, Canon Perowne, Professor Wright, and MiAl dis Wright, secretary, were present. Communications wore received from the Bishop of Llandaff, Dr Lindsay Alexander, pr Chance, Prix. _pal Dough-.-, and Dr Field, who were unable to be present. The revision of the Books of Kind's was continuod as far as 2 King:- xiv. 10Acting on a suggestion m_de to them by Sir William "Fergusson, Messrs. F. and R. Shanks, carriage-builders, <.*" Great Queen-street, Lincolii's-inn-iields, have invented a ue.v cab, which (says The Times) they believe likely to supersede tlxe hansom now in vogue. The " Linton" as tlxis new cab is called, after Sir William's seat in Scotland, differs from the old hansom in tlxis, that everything is exactly reversed. The body of the cab is turned completely round, and the passenger sits with his 'back to the horse. Both to passenger and horse this change will, it is supposed, be found extremely beneficial. The Bishop of Chester has been taking vigorous action with respect to linking! He regards this amusement as vicious fn the extreme, and even before tho disease penetrated to Chester, he had been much exercised by its growth. At length a company started in Chester for the purpose of starting building and laying down a xink, and the Bishop's horror reached a crisis. He brought eveiy pressure to bear upon tlxe company, in order to induce shareholders to refrain from their desecration, but witliout avail. Then he resolved to make a pecuniary sacrifice, and offered to buy xip the rink in order to close it. Tlio directors asked £-1000 for the property, and the Bishop at once handed them a cheque for the amount. He will probably find tliat he has made a grand mistake, and the effect will be similar to that produced ly giving an organ-grinder a penny to go away, hundreds coming shortly afterwards for similar payment. Ricciotti Garibaldi(saysacontemporaxy), the second son of the illustrious general, seems to have had an adventurous career lately. He is now in Melbourne, in a Government office, with a salary of __200 a year. When he first, arrived in Australia from England, with a wife — an Irish lady, to whom her father refused a dowry because she married an enemy of the Holy Father — Ricciotti earned a precarious living by whipping coal. When at last the unhappy pair were on the verge of starvation, Ricciotti determined to lay aside his incognito and declare who he was. The Government at once gave him the place of secx-etaiy in one of the public offices, which post he has now filled for a year with all honor and glory. Messrs Blythe and Co. , it .vill be seen, announce that they are showing a sixeciality in "y__l.-_._--i windows."