Under this Act, letters posted for delivery in any other Province, if not exceeding half-an-ounce in weight, will be charged 3d. each ; newspapers posted for delivery within the colony, Id., together with an approxi mate charge equal to the actual amount paid by the Government to any other Government or to any company for their transmission, such approxi mate charge to be fixed by Order in Council 5 and newspapers posted for transmission via Panama or Marseilles, 3d. each. New Tariff.— A new tariff has been laid before the House of Representatives by the Commis sioners of Customs. It differs considerably from the present one, but will probably undergo con siderable modification before it becomes law. As soon as it has passed through the House, we shall lay it before our readers. Resident Magistrate's Cuuut. — There were 14 cases on the civil list of thia<*Court for Thurs day, which were disposed of as follows : — Heard, 6 ; settled out of Court, 5 ; paid into Court, 2 ; summons not served, 1. 'j^Thb Maungatapu Murders. — The extreme penalty of the law is to be carried out in the cases of Burgess, Levy, and Kelly ; but the sentence of Sullivan has been commuted to that of penal servitude for life. &' /-^Military Settlers. — No. 5 company, T.M.S., which left here on the 28th instant, arrived at Wanganni on Saturday last. The men were transhipped from the St. Kilda to the Sturt, and proceeded to Patea on Sunday night. '♦•Native Outrage. — -The natives have interfered with the surveyors at Te Puna and Wairoa, and taken away some of their instruments. The natives state they have committed this outrage at the instigation of William Thompson. / $TThe Late Seizure of a Vessel by the Natives. — Tho natives who lately took possession of the Albert in the Firth of the Thames, on ac count of the persons on board having stolen two pigs, have been severely reprimanded by Mr. Mackay, who investigated the matter, and the charge brought against the Europeans for pig stealing was dismissed. Ecclesiastical.— Tho Auckland Weekly New*) of the 29th ult., says : — The New Zealand Dio cesan Synod terminated its sittings on Monday. 