NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 248, 24 February 1894, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

» (FEB PBBBS ASSOCIATION.) Wellington, February 23. Messrs T. K. Macdouald and Wm. Me Lean, ex«M.H.R's., and.T. O 'pea propose petitioning Pailiament to change the system of land rating by exempting improvement-* and iinpoamg all ra?es on the value of land onlr. A public meeting will be called to discuss the question. I'HBisTcnuncn, February 23. Tbo Harper cases were before the Supreme Court to-day. An application en behalf of tho Law Societj for an order interim of suspension pending the sitting of the Court of Appeal, in the course of t argument it appeared tho Law Society did not diracily apply for suspension but merely wished to leave affidavits nnd answer as filed to be dealt with by the Court in its discretion. His Honor eaid that under the circumstances he bad corao to tho conclusion to leayo the matters in tl c some position ttley had remained since the proceedings commenced. Auckland, February 23 Fergus McDonald, town clerk of Parnell, has been arrested on two charges of embezzlement. Tho Premier telegraphs to Hamilton in answer to a requisition asking him to come to Hamilton to meet tho native chiefs from the King Country, Paiko &c , to discuss native affairs, that be will be at To Kuiti about the Bih of March, and will ufttrwnrds tour Waikato. It is stated that the costs ot tbo poll tioner in the Waitemata election petition case aro £700, subject to reduction by taxation. The re* pen lent's costs aie osti mated at half that amoun',