WELLINGTON NEWS.
(Per Press Association.) Welling!oo, yesterday. Mr McArthur, S.M., gave his decision this morning in a oase in which Gsorge M. Ewart, stationer, was charged with soiling matter allegea to be of an indecent, immoral, and obscene nature. Tho maiter referred to was contained in Sydney Truth. Ewart was committed for trial. In Banco tho Obiof Justioe commented strongly upon counsel's delay in preparing cases, and intimated he would call over the list on Saturday. If the parties were unprepared to go on, the oases would be struck off the list, '
The Queensland Government has notified tbo Agricultural Department that owing to tho outbreak of Irish rot among tho potatoes in New Zealaud, the importation of potatoes from this colony will be prohibited in Queensland. Wellington, last night.
A poll to decide whether rating on unimproved values should be adopted in the borough of Petoue was taken to-day, 311 votes being cast for the proposal and 112 against. Mr W. C. Kensington, Uuder-Seoretary for Lands, has been appointed a member of tho Land Purchase Commission.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1412, 24 March 1905, Page 3
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