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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 5359, 18 April 1879, Page 2

The conspiracy cases, Eeihana Ikatahi and Meihana Takihi v. John Gibson Kinross and George Buckland Worgan, were called on in the R.M. Court yesterday morning, but there was no appearance of the jDrosecution. Mr Macdonald appeared for Mr Kinross, and asked that the informations bo dismissed, no evidence being tendered for the prosecution. His Worship therefore dismissed the cases. Mr Cornford then ajjplied that a case of a similar nature, Poaro Nonoi v. Frederick Button, be dismissed for the same reason as that alleged by Mr Macdonald. His Worship also granted the application in this case, and dismissed the information.

We are informed, in reference to the conspiracy charges against Messrs Kinross, Button, and Worgan, that the Crown, on the application of the native informant's solicitor, refused to take any steps for the production of G. B. Worgan, who is now in Wanganui gaol. The informants then applied to the Judge in Wellington for an habeas After adjourned argument, the Judge refused to grant the writ of habeas. The cases now stand over until Worgan is either acquitted or sentenced at Wanganui at the end of this month, when ho can bo produced, on warrant, without any further technical objection. The information for perjury against Mr Kinross is fixed for hearing in Wellington on the Ist May. The informant is Paramene One One.

A change has takon place in the proprietorship of the Masonic Hotel, Mr W. Dennett, late of the Star Hotel, having succeeded Mr Scott as landlord. Mr Scott, since his occupation of the Masonic, has been a genial and popular host, and has made many friends.

The Napier Bath Club held their first annual general meeting at the Masonic Hotel on Wednesday evening, Mr

M'Shane was voted to the chair. The secretary read a report for the past year containing some suggestions for alterations in the existing scale of charges. This, with some slight modifications, was adopted. The treasurer made a financial statement showing a deficit of nearly £70 up to the 7th of Marchi l%e cause of the deficit was stated to be principally the low scale of subscriptions. To meet the deficit it was resolved to make a call of 10s per member ; it was also decided to raise the subscriptions for the present year. The officers and committee of management for the present year Were then elected, and a vote of thanks to the chairman closed the proceedings*

We observe, from a telegram from Groytown, in the Eoeninq Post of the 9th inst. that Mr E. H. Huntley, schoolmaster at Kaitara, near Greytown, and lately of the Catholic School, Mcanee, %vas found dead in the closet on that morning.

It is probable that at an early meeting of the Christchurch City Council a notice of motion will be tabled appointing a committee to select ten acres of land on the Eiccarton-road for a Governor's residence. The land, says the Lyttelton Times, is to be purchased, provided the public will subscribe the necessary amount, and it is intended that should the proposition be favorably received, the Government will be asked to place a sum on the estimates for the erection of the buildings. It is stated that one councillor, who is interesting himself in the matter, has promised a contribution of from £50 to £100.

It refreshes usj (says a Canterbury journal) to hear of a good bag on the first day of the shooting season — the more so, on account of tho prevailing impression that shooting in Now Zealand is a delusion and a snare. "We understand a shooting party met on Mr M. Studholme's estate at "Waimate, and before one o'clock p.m. one division of the party, consisting of six guns, bagged 120 grey duck, Avidgeon, and teal. The number of birds killed and not retrieved, owing to the long grass and impenetrable scrub, must have exceeded, wo are informed, twenty or thirty brace. The birds wore plentiful, which is, no doubt, owing to the fact that the game on this estate is and has for some time been strictly preserved.

Mass will be celebrated by the Rev. E. Eeignier next Sunday, 20th inst., in St. Patrick's Church, Waipawa, at 11 a.m.

The Rev A. Shepherd will (D.V.) hold divine service on Sunday next, the 20th inst., at Havelock, at 11 a.m. ; and at Maraekakaho at half-past 3 p.m.

Church of England service will be conducted by the Eev J. C. Eccles on Sunday next at St. Peter's, Waipawa, at 11 a.m. ; at the schoolroom. Kaikora, at 3 p.m. ; at the Chm-ch, Te Aute, at 7 p.m. Eoutledge, Kennedy and Co. will hold two sales to-day. The first will bo in Messrs Kinross and Co.'s now wool stoore at the Spit, at noon, when they will offer corrugated iron, wire nails, roofing nails, and flooring boards. The other sale will be held at 2 o'clock this afternoon in the auctioneers' rooms, Tennyson-street, when they will offer some household furniture, and also onions and pigs' cheeks.

I; It is stated that sixteen letters demanding compensation for damages sustained by the recent flood in Dunedin have been received at the offices of the Corporation.

A Massachusetts man proposes to travel across the Atlantic, double the Cape of Good Hope, and cross the Indian Ocean to Australia, in a boat 19 feet over all, 5 feet beam on top, and a little -wider on the water-line, her sides having considerable " tumble-in." Her depth of hold is 2^- feet. She is to have an iron keel of about -loOlb in weight.