NEW ZEALAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 298, 24 December 1901, Page 4

NEW ZEALAND.

illy Telegraph—Press Association.) Napier, last night. George Norman Cox. clerk in the Postotiiee at Hastings, was chiargeei at the Co-art this morning with .stealing A'loo’, the property of the Govermiicut. He was remanded for a week, bail, iixed at A'-IOU, being allowed. Woodville, hist night. Win. Pratlley received a month's imprisonment for parading the street without his clothes on Saturday. Palmerston North, last night. Messrs Symons Bros.’ sawmill at Pohangina was destroyed by lire early this morning. Christchurch, last night. Harold Johnston and John Guillemont, who had pleaded guilty on Saturday on respective charges of stealing Ado's front the D.1.C., Christchurch, and receiving a portion of the same, knowing it to have been stolen, were each sentenced to nine months’ imprisonment at the Supreme Court- this morning. Dunedin, last night. .James ’Warnoek, a dairyman at Green Island, was lined -10 s and costs at the Police Court for selling milk without a license.

In the case of Nimmo and Blair v. the Collector of Customs, Judge Williams gave judgment for plaintiffs for a refund of .-£‘ss 12s paid as duty on a manure mixing machine, thus reversing the decision of the Customs Department that the article c-ame within the definition of machinery not otherwise enumerated, and was liable to 25 per cent. duty. The Customs Department refused to accept it as agricultural machinery.