(Before J. Gillies, Esq., R.M.) Thursday, 28th November.

Otago Witness, Issue 522, 30 November 1861, Page 9

(Before J. Gillies, Esq., R.M.) Thursday, 28th November.

S. Farren was fined 10s. for being drunk. W. 11. D unbar was fined 203. and J. Hamilton 103. tor a similar ofii-nce. W. Wallace, for driving a liorso and dray furiously through the town, was fined £2. J. Anderson, alias Jem Burns, was brought up on remand, charged with highway robbery. The witnesses not being present, he was remanded for a week. Prisoner : I object to that. I have been three timc3 remanded already, and you have no power to remand me again. Magistrate : How ia that ? Prisoner : The law dous not allow any one to be remanded for more than 21 days. Magistrate : I know of no such law. Prisoner : But I do. Magistrate : l'ray how did you obtain such information and experience on,. this subject. Prisoner : That's not a, question for you to ax. You can't seiiQ me back again. Magistrate : I think I can, and you are remanded for a week.

The Wanganui Chronicle referring to the late murder says : — James Collins left in the I Tync on Tuesdaj' for Wellington, under the ' charge of 8 soldiers and two poliocmcn, to .stand his trial there for the murder of Ensign Alexander. Although various attempts have been made to bring him to a sense of his 1 criminality, he shews no sign of regret, but nnintains'the same callous indifference as he has all along displayed. The mailman, who hail arrived in Wanganui from Waikuto, states that the natives are still determined to stand by their Kiny, and oppose the making of roads. Tluy were expecting a 'me^sjigfj from iSir George Grey on both these j subjects.