LAST NIGHT'S NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 9095, 13 March 1901, Page 1

LAST NIGHT'S NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

/ —^ — . (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, last night. The criminal sittings of the Supreme Court were concluded to-day. The jury "returned a verdict of not guilty in the case of Rawiri Te An, the Maori charged with the murder of his wife at Miranda. Daring February, the New Zealand Crown mines treated 2804 tons of ore for ,' a return of bullion valued at £45,026. Waitara Goldmining Company treated 106 tons of ore for bullion which sold at £591. \ NAPIER, last night It is understood that the Hatuma estate'will be placed on the market by the Government for close settlement in about six weeks 'time. The run has been cut up into 58 sections, ranging from 111 acres to about 1500 acres. Great difficulty has been experienced in getting a sufficient number of remounts is Hawke's Bay. The original order of 20 was reduced to 12. These, a splendid lot, were sent to Wellington to-day. WELLINGTON, last, night. The first shipment of this season's poultry to London, under the auspices of the Agricultural Department, will be made by the Aotea sailing to-morrow. Included in the shipment will be a consignment of 90 chickens and ducklings from the Momohaka experimental station. At a meeting of the Ratepayers' Association to-night a resolution was passed . that no officer of a corporation should be allowed to do any private work, and that the whole of his time should be devoted to the work of Mb department. The Association also decided to support the proposal to build a town hall. CHRISTCHURCH, last night At the Magistrate's Court to-day, the licensee of the New Brighton hotel was fined £5 and costs for supplying-persons - not bona fide travellers on Sunday. This was a case in which the Magistrate previously held that N a traveller remained ' such, even after being several hours at a place, . and could have more than one drink during closed hours. The Sup"'leme,, Court upset this decision, and directed the case to be reheard. A girl named Bessie Gallagher, who had attempted to commit suicide by taking dissolved match heads, was convicted and discharged^ at the Magistrate's Court to-day. «-— A case arising out of the stabbing on the steamer Otarama, in Dunedin, came before the Magistrate's Court at Lyttelton to-day, Wm- Neilson claiming to be discharged from the steamer because he was bound over as a witness in the case Rex v, Thompson, to be heard in the Supreme Court at Dunedin in May next. For the captain of the Otarama ,it was shown that ithe authorities had ' stated that there was no necessity to pay off wit- ' nesses, as their depositions could be acby the Court. The Court decided that as the Crown had taken no steps to compel the informant to remain in the colony, it could not take the responsibility of upsetting his contract with the vessel. The application was therefore dismissed, each party to pay his own costs. As the man had taken a proper course in bringing the matter before the Court, the Bench ordered that no deduction be made from his wages on account of his absence from the vessel that morning. To-day the manager of the German Bay dairy was fined 40s and costs for having exported produce under weight. xue case is the. first one brought under Clause 18 of the Dairy Industry Act, 1898. A shortage of lid to 2d per crate of cheese was discovered by the grader at Lyttel- ] ton. . Defendant was warned, and an a repetition was summoned. For the defence it was urged that the offence was unintentional, the weighing apparatus at the factory having got rusty.