NEW ZEALAND.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 11492, 27 January 1903, Page 6

NEW ZEALAND.

(PBES9 ASSOCUTIOX TBXECRAM3.J NAFIKR, January 26The sitting of the Compensation Court i;i connection with the compulsory acquisition of the Milbouine Estate was commenced to-day, before the Chief Justice and Messrs T. Grosse and C. Eigar, uccessors. The eJaim of the trustees in the Stoke Estate is for £184,998, Ix-in.' £164,998 for land, valued at £5 12s jipi- acre, and £20.000 for lews of business. The offer m.'ifle by the Government was for £4 an acre, subject to i eduction for any area fvund denuded of soil by the rivers. "Several witnesses were examined, and the ease was adjourned till to-morrow. When the ta*e against Magill, charged with arson, was called t>n at the Court to-day, the accused did not appeal-. On Saturday he was medically examined as to hi* sanity, and committed to the Asylum. leaving by the express for Wellington this morning.' On the application of the Crown l'rostcutor, a warrant was issued for Jiw ;i!it.st, and tiie accused, will be brought back to aaswer the charges. WAXGANUI, Januan- 26. A thmuirh train from Wellington was delayed three and a half hours at the foot of the Forde.il B:uik on Satutfhiy afterneon, owing to the front axle of the front ei._;,it:e (making It was a bij; train, intaiclint: 500 passengers, and had the break occuned on .he top of the hill m</*t <lieiustious r«;uhs miglit have followed. An. othtr train was .sent fteni town to transfer the passen-er.'. ar.d just Avhen that arrived th' repai'.s to the engine were effected. Mr Kyiv Kenny. H.M., gave judgment m .•I packet-license case this niorning. in which t!m (.-apt;-in of a river steamer was charged v-ith f elliny: liquur to a passenger, while tin , vesst-d wa.s moored at a stopping place during a Boxing Day excursion. The Magistrate held that the excursion -was iinly one passage, and the stopping merely ;u;"'incident of tfie voyage, and that there was no illegal sale. STKATFORD, Jwiuary 26. Some 350 nominations have been received for the Stratford Caledonian Sports Meeting on Thursday next. There are 14t! competitors, hx-ludiny Siuith, Spencer Barnes, Davidson. Kerr. Brunette, 'Humphries, and also the South Is'and champions amongst the pipers. The Hon. the Premier has accepted the p:siticn of T'l't-.on of the Xorth TaranaJti liitie Association, and forwarded a douauun to the piize -mud. WELLINGTON, Jtnuary 26 Tlio insuranuts upon buildings "'id con-tr-uiK destroyed by tires in the Wellington district in Dtccmbcr amounttd to £10,769, exclusive of small fires not disclosed by the companies intert-au-d. 'i'tio country districts are responsible for £7926, and the city for £2843.