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New Zealand Herald, Volume XIII, Issue 4666, 27 October 1876, Page 3

[press agency.] WANG AN UI, Thursday. The Criminal Sittings of the Supreme Court ended yesterday. Owen Kane, for rape on a little girl, was sentenced to ten years' penal servitude, and two floggings. Sullivan, who pleaded guilty to attempted burglary, got eighteen months. Gaynor, for forgery and uttering, 11 months ; and Pillan, for stealing jewellery, six months. WELLINGTON, Thursday. FIRE BRIGADE DEMONSTRATION. The Union Company have agreed to issue return tickets at single fares, from any part of the colony, to members of the Fire Brigade visiting the Dunedin demonstration. . CHRISTOHURCH, Thursday. The Christchurch Acclimatisation Society this afternoon decided to send the curator to Auckland to take charge of the salmon ova to arriveby nextmail steamer. 250troutova will besent as a gift to Taranaki in place of a lot which died on the way there. Sheep-shearing promises to be above the average. Price per 100 lower than usual, owing to influx of Victorian shearers. Private letters from Kumara goldflelds are discouraging. SUPERINTENDENT MAC ANDREW CALLS A CONVENTION. DUNEDIN, Thursday. The Superintendent has addressed a letter as follows, in accordance with the request of the Political Association :—" I have the honor to request you to be good enough to attend a meeting of the members of the House of Representatives and Provincial Council, Mayors of Municipalities, Chairmen of District Road Boards and of local Education Committees, to be held in the Provincial Council Hall, Dunedin, on Wednesday, November 8, to confer and determine as to the best means of extricating the province of Otago from the evil results involved in the Abolition of Provinces Act. I need not say the present is a crisis which demands the most serious attention of all earnest men who have the future welfare of the province at heart, and I venture to hope there will be a goodly muster at such proposed meeting, which need not occupy more than one or two days. The Ocean Beach Railway was opened today. Verdict was given for the defendant in the case of Mackay v. National Bank. THE CALIFORNIAN MAIL SERVICE. A correspondent of the Star sends the following :— WELLINGTON, Thursday. The Gorernment'ultimatum to New South Wales is as follows : —New Zealand will agree to abandon 1 Honolulu, but insist on Auckland as port of call, and will abandon the service rather than yield or accept the Bay of Islands. They require imroeyiat/. decision, so as to enable them to mak-o other arrangements. The Sydney Government will probably yield.