NAPIER.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 807, 12 June 1879, Page 2

NAPIER.

This Day. In the Supreme Court yesterday, the trial of Roderick Hugh M'Lennan, for wife murder, was postponed to December, on the application of the Crown prosecutor, so as to enable enquiries respecting the prisoner to be made in England. Mr. Lascelles, for prisoner, did not object to a postponement, but , he wanted the venue changed to Wellington, on the ground that the,public mind was so excited in Napier that the prisoner would not get a fair trial; { ';■? : A-: The Chlef'Justice rafused to change* the venue, but said that Mr. Lascelles could apply again next December. . The case against M. Boylan, for a breach of the Arms Act, occupied nearly the whole of the day. About five o'clock the jury brought in a verdict of " guilty," with the addition that prisoner was under the belief that the license was in the name of the Maori who received the gun and ammunition. The Judge had told the jury that as Boylan had told the Natives to go for a license, it was for the jury to say whether, when the license was brought to him, he might not have taken it for granted that it was the one that was required. If they thought so, they were to find specially to that effect. After the verdict was given, the Judge said that the point as to whether it amounted to acquittal would be reserved for Court of Appeal, Boylan was released on bail, which was reduced to £200, with two sureties of .£IOO each, and is to surrender at the December sittings of the Supreme Court in Napier, to abide the decision of the Court of Appeal. - A sitting, of the Native Lands Court will be held here on the 16th July. There are .110 successions claims to be heard, 12 applications for land to be put through the Court, and 27 applications for sub-divisions of land. Joseph Hutchinson, for tho larceny of a watch and jewellery from the Masonic Hotel, pleaded guilty, and was remanded for sentence. The Grand Jury threw out the bill for conspiracy against Donnelly and Price,' and for larceny against "William Morley.