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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1042, 3 February 1911, Page 6

A charge of, interrupting a Tariff Reform meeting was dismissed by the Poole magistrates on the ground that the meeting was held on the highway, and was therefore- illegal. Tho case came before the High Court on appeal, and it was there ruled that meetings held on the highway are not illegal on that account. . . ' ' Some Highland sheep which were turned out on common land on Dartmoor jumped a fence and were found upon enclosed land. The owner of tlie land drove them to the village- pound, and the owner, of the sheep sued him for wrongful impounding. On tho cas<! coming before the High Court on appeal it was decided that tho owner of the laud was right, because, his land being fenced high. enough to- keep out the ordinary moorland sheep of the district, it was not incumbent on him to fence against a newly-introduced breed of sheep which could jump three feet, higher. The case involved a reference lo statutes ns old as the reign of Philip and- Mary. ■■ At Christie's, 700 guineas have been paid for an Italian plaque of the sixteenth century. Not long ago it was given to some children as a. plaything," no valuo beiua attached to it,