i VAGRANTS, j ', ■ Jamei Collini.and Jane Taoket pleaded guilty to , having no lawful mean* of support;, anil were ordered, to be, imprisoned for one 'month with, hard labour. , i USING PROPANE LANGUAGE. • , , Robert Doran pleaded guilty .to the abore charge, and was >B«atenoed (to nveu days' impriionment, with hard labour. - ,

•liABOINY. , Robert Mitohell pleaded guilty to Btwling a bag containing linen and mndry other articles, valued at 53. He was sentenced to six weeks' imprisonment with hard labour. This concluded the business.
POLICE COURT. -Tuesday. [Before T.Beckham, Esq., R.M.]

THE PIAKO NATIVES.
To t&* Editor of &•„ Daily SouthkrhCaom. Sib, — Ih»ve only tMs. moment, bqeu aocused byHoni te Kuti of hiving published plotter, in your journal of this morning, relative , to the disturbed state of the Pialcp najives. Inquiring from him from whom he received the information, he told me distinctly, in" the presence of a witness, that Mr. Brathwaite, cqn ni nected with, tfie. Native Land , Uffioe, iad givfl> Mm , this information. Now, sir. when giving you the , formation I did, and which I considered my bounden duty, it was merely for the information of the Euro pean public ; and if theauthoiifcies connected with the Native Department think .proper to interpret to , natives the opinions of your correspondents, no farther information will be given to, the press. "What I asserted(in ypur journal of this morning I am prepared, to prove. If the native Honi te Kuti states that my assertions are untrue, I .beg leave to state that he was, at the time I alluded to, at Upper Waikato. i Hugh S. Black* . Auckland, March 26, 1867.
DISTRICT COURT.— Tuesday. (Before his Honor Judge Beckham.] CAMERON T. JONES.
