NEW ZEALAND.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LI, Issue 5661, 18 April 1879, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND.

[Times’ Special Wise.] AUCKLAND, Apart 17. The anniversary soiree and ball of the Working Men’s dab passed off successfully. The quartz brought from the Monganui has been crashed, bat the result does not warrant farther operations. Henry Charles Hill, for forgery, was sentenced to-day to eighteen months’ imprisonment. On sentence being pronounced, a woman in Court unexpectedly belaboured prisoner with a parasol, meanwhile commending the decison of the Judge. NAPIEB, Apbil 17. The charges of conspiracy against J. G. Kinross and Wcrgan, and Sutton and Worgan were called on to-day. There was no appearance on behalf of the prosecution. Mr McDonald, who appeared for Kinross, asked that the information be dismissed, on the grorind that no ‘ ridenoe has been tendered for the prosecution; that Kinross and Sutton were not responsible for the non-production of Worgan; that the prosecution bad been premature, and {rash information might be laid. The informatioris were dismissed accordingly. The facta shortly are that the Crown, on the application of Native informant’s solicitor, refused to take any steps for the production of Worgan, who is now in Wanganui gaoL The informant’s solicitor then appliedto the Judge in Wellington for a habeas corpus. After an adjourned argument the Judge refused to grant a writ of habeas corpus. The cases now stand over till Worgan is either acquitted or sentenced at Wanganui at the end of this month, when he can be produced without further technical objections on warrant. Hie information against Kinross for perjury is fixed for hearing in Wellington on Mot 1. John Bussell and Bichard Winter were committed for trial to-day, for robbery and housebreaking. Winter, who is an ex-lawyer’s clerk, arid well educated, only came out of gaol a few weeks ago, where he had been undergoing sentence for forgery. Business is still quiet in Napier. NEW PLYMOUTH, Apexi 17. Thecharge of assaulting M'Williams’ wife was withdrawn by mutual consent. PALMEBSTON NOBTH, Apeil 17. As a proof of the increased value of land in Manawatu, a half-acre section in Ferguseon street.-Feilding, was sold to-day at £IBOO to Mr SQbree, late of TuraHna, who will erect a hotel. This equals the rate of £2600 per acre. WELLINGTON, Apeix, 17. The Governor was sworn in at noon, and saluted from the Emerald. A Gazette extraordinary announces his assumption of the Government, and that he has been pleased to re-appoint and adminieter the oaths of office to the Hon. Sir George Grey, K. 0.8., Premier and Commissioner of Customs; the Geo. Stoddart Whitmore, C.M.G., Colonial Secretary ; the Hon, Jas. Macandrew, Minister for Public Works; the Hon. John Sheehan, Native Minister and Minister for Justice-; the Hon. James Temple Fisher, Postmaster - General and Commissioner of .Telegraphs; the Hoa John Ballanctf, Colonial Trdasnror and Minister for Education. They are sworn members of the Executive Council of New:Zealand, and His Excellency has been.pleated to •reappoipfc'the Hon B. Stout, Attorney-General and: Minister.

for Lands and Immigration ; the Hon Hoani Nahe, Bon John Nathaniel Wilson, and the Hon Wm. Swanson to bo members of the Ex> ecutive Council. . , ... The Emerald’s departure, is postponed until Saturday. . , , The following tenders were received for the . Wauranui wharf and reclaimed contract (formation only) of the Patea-Manawatu Railway :—Accepted, J. Saunders, Wellington, £23,614; declined, Cornfoot and Stenhouse, Christchurch, £23,697; Joseph Gibbs, Wanganui, £24,672; W.‘ Eowe, £24,578; D. Wilkie, Inglewood, £25,M8; S. B*owne, Wellington, £26,737; W. G. Bassett, Wanganui, £26,935; Barry and M'Dowell, Wellington, £27,615. . ShoiUy before 5 6 o’clock tlus morning the constable on duty on Lambton Quay found a man named James Marshall, a recent arrival from Christchurch, lying on the footpath in front of Braeh’s Hotel It appears that shortly before 12 o’clock last night Marshall went ’to the landlord and asked for a bed. He was slightly under the influence of liquor at tho time, and of course was acoommodetodwith a bad. He went up to the room allotted to him, and he seems to have fallen out of the window on the second storey, but he does not. remember how the event occurred. He is, fortunately not seriously hurt. At the close of the usual service at the Wesleyan Church last night, about 200 members of the church adjourned to the schoolroom for the purpose or bidding farowell to their pastor, the Rev Mr Beid, who proceeds, to Christchurch to-morrow morning. Mr David Lewis, in a feeling and impressive speech; presented Mr Reid, on behalf of the members of'the Wesleyan churches here, with an address, accompanied by a purse containing 60 guineas. .. .. * ! [ Xast ’week tho GTfijtoWn Volunteers met for practice, wbon the Captain announced the wish of the Government to know bow many were willing to volunteer for active service if required. Alt the men stepped,forward and, with two exceptions, signified their,willingness; to go to the Hunt Jf wanted. . • ■ I ;Mr Forwood, a barrister; recently settled hsrh, and formerly Chief Justice, of Fiji, is mentioned as'the probable second, B-M., for Wellington. .... j 'Edward Peel, a young man convicted of, embezzlementin the service -of "‘ Messrs, Guthrie and Larnach, was to-day 'sentenced,; (0 two years’ imprisonment. In passing , sentence, the ‘Judge commented, unfavourably . on the loose way the firm’s business was' conducted in Wellington. 'Peel’s ‘.wife was in court, and fainted 'when the sentence. was announced. ' ' . .

: The window blind of a house , in. Cuba street caught-fire from a candle last night, and a serious- conflagration waV* narrowly escaped; ; ’

GEEYMOUTH, April 17. ’ 7 ; .TheKaitaugata relief fuhdfote camei off to-day, and had glorious weafoeri’ A , prof cession consisting -of the Kre’ 1 Brigade* Foresters, Oddfellows, Hibernians, and Cadet bands marched to the railway station, and. were taken to the racecourse, 'where all kinds were held.' Qreymotith turned but. f» masse, even the hotels were closed, and the whole affair was a success. . , . ■ An Art Exhibitionon behalf of the Church pf England passage fund has been oh view in, the Public Hall during the last, three nights, and has been largely • attended'.' An exhibit, pf Mr-Helms’j comprising coins and'insects,; is admitted to be one of the best cqflectiqns; in the Australasian Colonies. Greymouth,bat| been lucky in the London • art ‘ Union. prizes, knd over a dozen -specimens 'of the best modern masters-afo exhibited.

HOKITIKA, April 17.

t Messrs Bunny and Jordan, thq Jackson’s Bay Commission, left by the Maori this afternoon for Wellington. Mr Whitefoord leaves by the Christchurch coach to-morrow morning- . ■; [

: .. DUNEDIN, April 17. j Willis and Seymotir’s panorama [Zealandia Will be exhflfftea GhHshffiureh' iwxfc week. Mr J. M. P&rriyr> thh’W%ll-Indwh - journalist, Who has disposed pf has interest in, the jAfff, has been engaged as lefiftiror. * - f . ; ; Hiscbcks aSd J compariy; are T ddlhg splendid business with “ TeWNighw In a Bar-room.” Numbers ha-re been turned' away from the doors. 1 So disgracefully did some of the Volunteers returning from Invercargill behave themselves when in Dunedin on Tuesday night, that the interference of the police on more than one occasion had to be invoked. Ah information has been laid against a man named Eastwood, belonging to the Timaru corps, for his disorderly conduct, and he will have to answer to the charge at the City Police Court so soon as the warrant can he executed.

To-night’s Star says: “A practical refutation of the opinion so freely expressed regarding the unsuitability of Fort Chalmers harbour for vessels of great draught of Water is the fact that the Benares, which on good authority we are informed drew 22 feet on arrival, was brought over the bar in safety! Our Northern contemporaries have been very eager to publish the story of the Stad Haarlem being taken to Lyttelton rather than risk crossing the bar during a dangerous" Sound swell. We doubt muchTif-they will ve the honesty to mention that the Benares is now comfortably moored within the port.” The Public Works Department is calling for tenders for the reclamation of at least forty acres of the upper harbour.. Hie following telegram from the Minister for Public Works, addressed to Messrs Oliver, Bastings, and Driver, M.H.B.’si has been received : “ You must be under some misapprehension re Addington Workshops. You cannot mean that there are to be no workshops in Canterbury, or that the removal of the existing workshops from Christchurch to Addington is detrimental to Dunedin, or implies that the principal railway workshop in the Middle Island is to be at Addington. The whole of the railway station ground at. Christchurch is required for other purposes, hence the removal of the shops to Addington, as provided by the Appropriation Act. I regret that this should offend the mercantile people at Dunedin.—J, Macakdekw.”

An inquest was held at the Lunatic Asylum to-day on the body of J. C. Patterson, 55 years of age. Deceased, who is a well-known journalist, was formerly sub-editor of the Melbourne Argus, end. arrived at the Bluff about two months ago. He was then insane and made two attempts at suicide. The cause of death was general paralysis. At the inquest on the body of a child found wrapped in a napkin at the water -of Leith last week, the jury, without retiring, found a verdict to the effect that the child had been still-born, but that there was no evidence to show by whom its body had been placed where found.

A preliminary meeting in connection with the juvenile exhibition,'to be opened in Melbourne in October or November next, was held at the new Oddfellows’ Hall this morning. It was reported that the Union Company had agreed to convey exhibits- to Melbourne free of charge, and that the Government would cany the same over the New Zealand railways. His Worship the Mayor, Msssrs J.L. Gillies, Park, Fitzgerald, Wales, Doughty, Burt, and Lewis were appointed a Committee, with power to add to their number, to collect exhibits arid further the objects of the Exhibition.' It was agreed to request the General Committee of Management of the Otago Educational Institute to engage the services of pupils in connection with the schools of Otago and Southland for the purpose. The exhibits are to be ehown in Dunedin before being forwarded to Melbourne. The Secretory for Education at Wellington (Mr J. Hislop) Is about to be pesented by the members of the Educational Institute of Otago and Southland with a testimonial, in recognition of bis services in the cause of Education and in token of esteem. An accident happened at about half-past two this afternoon to a man named Wiluam Martin. It appears that he was employed at the railway station, and was engaged on the turntable tumir" a truck into the smithy’s yard, and beinr unable to get away in time, or having no room, he was squeezed between the truck he was helping to tain and those on the main line, causing a fracture of the BkulL He was taken to: the hospital, where his. injuries were immediately attended to.