TE WHITI ON THE OPUNAKE MURDER.

Waikato Times, Volume XV, Issue 1319, 11 December 1880, Page 2

TE WHITI ON THE OPUNAKE MURDER.

[united press association.] New Plymouth. Thursday. Te Whiti has expressod himself in a very decided manner regarding Tuhi. Te Whiti's words are : — " I am in no way responsible. He must bear hid own punishment since he followed hia own ways. I have always preached against bloodshed. My song is the song of peace. The Maori has bitten like a cur, let him die like a cur."

Wklungton. Thursday. The criminal .sitting of the Supreme Court were commenced this morning. There were eleven cases set clown for hearing. The Chief Justice's charge to the Grand Jury was important, mth reference to the charge of murder against Tuhi, Le reviewed the evidence. He said the question of the prisoner being insane, drunk, or sober, when he committed the deed, was not a matter for their consideraThe Grand Jury found a true bill against Tuhi for the Opunake murder. At the Supreme Court this afternoon, the case of Tuhi -for the Opunake murder, was called on. Mr Forward, counsel for the defence, intimated that the trial would in all probability, not conolude by Saturday night, and in order to prevent the jury being locked up all Sunday, he would ask that the case be commenced on Monday. His Honor agreed, and Tuhi was removed. Mr Forwood mentioned that it wys the intention of Tuhi to plead not guilty.

An American editor apologises for the deficiency of the first edition of his paper, by sayiny he was detained at home by a second addition in his family. The Australian Cricketers on their return home (says a London paper) will take with them a large snm of money. During the contest between the Australian Cricketers and a North of England Eleven at Bradford, the amount of money taken at the gate was £293 the first day, £336 on the second, and £85 on the third. Out of this £714 the Colonials took exactly one-half, the remainder being left for the payment of the English players and the expenses entailed upon the local committee in organizing the match. The Australians obtained still greater profit out of the Nottingham encounter, concluded on September 25th ; but even this was exceeded by the payment which the manager of the Crystal Palace arranged to give them for the match lately played in the Palace grounds. They reeieved no less than £700, while the English professionals engaged to oppose them had £20 each. They received £1500 for the match at Kennington Oval at the beginning of September, and when it is considered that they have been playing every week and all the week for the last five months in various parts of the couutry, the total must amount to something very considerable. The following biographical oketch of Mr W. S. Lyster, the well-known manager of opera who died in Melbourne last week, is f rom Heaton'a "Men of the Times: — " ''Lyster, William Saurin, son of Captain Charworth Lyster, was born in Dublin in 1827. His first appearance in Australia was in 1842, but he remained only a few months, and returned to England. He next visited India and the Cape of Good Hope, and landed in America in 1849. He obtained an engagement in Boston and acted in the legitimate drama with fair succeis, but being more attached to music, he gathered round him an operatic company, and oame to the colonies, where he achieved great success. This company having beeen disbanded in 1869, he in 1871 opened the Princess Theatre with a new company, and after visiting Sydney and and New Zealand, returned to Melbourne ! in March, 1873. In 1874 he engaged Madame Arabella Goodard, who was then on a visit to the colony. He does not confine himself entirely to the operatic stage, but has a model farm at Fern Tree Gully, near Melbourne, Victoria. Mr Lyster visited Europe in 1878 in order to combine the pursuit of health with business purposes, and returned in March, 1879, bringing with him a new opera company for the amusement of the Australian colonies. The temperance women of Delaware, Ohio, have started a movement to present Mrs Hayes with a testimonial for her course in excluding liquors from the White House. Ax old lady was recently overheard to ask her little boy how dare steal the molasses syruptitiously,