The Daily Telegraph. MONDAY, JULY 16, 1883.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3744, 16 July 1883, Page 2

The Daily Telegraph. MONDAY, JULY 16, 1883.

The Hon. Mr Dick has introduced a Bill the short title of which is the Auctioneers' Bill. This Bill consolidates and amends the law relating to auctioneers, and provides that no unlicensed person is to act as an auctioneer, and describes the process of licensing. The Bill embraces all licenses existing at the coming into forco of the Act. Licenses to extend over the whole colony, and partners are to take out separate licenses, except where only certain members of a firm iutend to act as auctioneers. No publican, or uncertificated bankrupt, is eligible for a license. All auctions are to bo conducted by daylight, except in the case of opep.-air sales, which may continue an hour after sunset. Account sales are to be rendered within seycji flays. No music or riotous conduct is to be allowed in an auction room. A penalty of not less than £20, or more than £100, is to bo inflicted on any one pretending to be an auctioneer; and a penalty, noi exceeding £50, is to be inSloted for lending or hiring a license, The Bill doe 3 not apply to ealeg made by order

of the Governor, or by any Collector or SubCollector of Customs, nor to any judgment sale or pound sales, nor to sales made at a bazaar, when thf> property disposed of is for a religious or charitable object. Illegal sales prior to the coming- into forco of this Bill are not validated.

The Religious, Charitable, and Education Trust Boards Incorporation Bill has been introduced by Mr Dargavillo, in order to enable Boards of the above nature to incorporate themselves, and to have perpetual succession and a common seal, to sue and be sued. The ninth clause in the Bill provides that anything done by a trustee shall be valid it ho be acting bona fide as trustee, notwithstanding any defect in his appointment.

Juries Act Amendment Bill (Mr Tole). —Repeals Sections 52 to 60 (both inclusive) of the Juries Act, 1882, thereby abolishing Grand Juries, and repeals, also, Sections 160, 163, 165, 166, 167 of the same Act; and in lieu thereof provides that special jurors shall receive fifteen shillings a day, and common jurors shall be paid from eight to twelve shillings a day, according to the distance they reside from the Court. These fees are to be paid by the Registrar of the Court, out of the Consolidated Fund.

Distress Bill (Mr Holmes).—This Bill, which is to come into forco on the Ist January, 1881, provides that no distraint for rent can be levied on any goods or chattels, except agisted stock, that ie not the property of the person owing the rent, and agisted stock can only be deatrained on for the amount duo for agistment. The property of persons owing rent over which a bill of sale is given is not to be exempt from distraint. Personal clothing , , &c, to the value of £10 is to be exempt from distraint, and any agreements to enable persons to destrain on exempted clothing aro to be invalid.