WELLINGTON.
This Day. . The cook of the barque Loch Fergus, named Banks, who was struck with a handspike by an apprentice, in a quarrel on Sunday, died in the hospital' on Tuesday. He never recovered consciousness. Mr; J. C. Crawford, late R.M., was entertained at a dinner at the Club last night,- prior to his departure for Europe. Mr. Benzoni, Chief Clerk, has been promoted to be Assistant Under Secretary in the Public Works Depart-: ment. • JohnNugent, cook at the Telegraph Hotel, formely on the Government steamers Hinemoa and Stella, was found dead at the foot of the stairs this morning. ■■•».•• .. In the oase of Burke v McArdle, Mr. Mansford gave judgment this morning as follows. It was an undisputed fact that the small bone of plaintiffs/leg was broken on Sunday, 26th of January, 1 and that the fracture was occasioned through, a disturbance in defendant's licensed house. He had in a recent case, expressed his opinion that the landlord of a public-house was justified in turning out a person making a disturbance, or conducting himself in a disorderly manner ; but that no more force must be used than was necessary to accomplish the end desired to be obtained. That plaintiff was conducting himself in a disorderly manner it could not be doubted. The question then was did defendant use more force than necessary. His Worship then expressed his opinion that defendant had acted improperly in allowing the plaintiff to be drinking in his house on Sunday, and that defendant used more violence in ejecting plaintiff from his premises than was necessary. He gave judgment for plaintiff for £50 and costs. The whole of the Survey party haß been transplanted from the Waimateplains by natives, and are now camped out at Waingongora River. The natives were unanimous that those were Te Whiti's instructions. Everything was done with great good humour on both sides.. Te Whiti's influence has been considerably increased by his prophecy coming true. '.-■?■. : Titokawaru is anxious, and a majority of natives seem afraid that they have gone too far, and that the future action of the Government will make them pay a heavy penalty in the loss of reserves ; and in the meantime they are busy chopping up pegs and pulling them out of the ground with pjeks. ; The greater portion of the country will require to be reBurveyed. There is an article, which is understood to be official, this morning in the New Zealander, in reference to the Waimate plains difficulty. It says : " The : land ,must be ro-occupied,although we. have some doiibt'of ithe propriety of sending back surveyors unless protected by a sufficient force. The determined attitude of the natives requires to be met by one equally determined." The article suggests as a mode of retaliation that 50 acres of land each be given to bodies of men on condition that they held it for seven years. The article concludes : " Here, then, is an answer to Te Whiti, who might be distinctly informed that the Government would plant posts of volunteer settlements from Waingongoro to Parihaka, and maintain men out of the reserve intended to be set aside for the use of natives. This is what we Understand by a strong policy, and we are well assured it is one which would prove eminently successful Whatever power might be legally wanting, to give effect to the contract, could be obtained from the Assembly when it met."
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 661, 27 March 1879, Page 2
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