NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 15, 17 July 1896, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

(Per Press Association). Auckland, July 16. At a meeting of tbe Council of the Auckland Chamber of Commerce it was resolved, " That this Chamber respectfully protests against the Income Tax on consignments sold in New Zealand on principle, but if the tax is to be enforced, then a tax of 5 per cent on the average profit of 5 per cent wo»ld be the simplest and the easiest of adjustment." A young man named John Davis waa killed at Coromandel by the falling of a tree. At the inquest a verdict of accidental death was returned. Wellington, July 16. The colonial mails, which left Auckland for 'Frisco on June 13th, arrived in London on the 14th inst., one day ahead of the time table date. The annual report of the Wellington Meat Export Company shows a satisfactory year's transaction. The directors recommend the declaration of a dividend of 8 per cent, and that £400 be carried forward. Tbe Gazette notifies that Arbor Day (August 6th) will be observed as a public holiday in the Government offices. Chbistchubch, July 16. At the S.M. Court to-day, Abraham Jago was committed for trial on a charge of perjury in a civil case heard on July 9th. He was also committed for trial on a charge of attempting to prevent the course of justice by an attempt to procure Frank Whithair, Peter Fear a, aad Michael Curran, to give false evidence.