NEW ZEALAND.
(Per Preso Association.) Hokitika, laat night, At the Supreme Court, Donald MoRae, ohargod with sending threatening letters to the Reeftou police and Stipendiary Magistrate, was found not guilty. Later. -In the Supreme Court .this afternoon a oharge of maimiDg cattle against Robt. Fe-guson was proceeded with. The jury failed to agree, and a new trial was ordered. Ia civil jurisdiction re Daniel David, deceased, application for probate, a oaveat had been lodged lay the Publio Trustee. Judge Cooper ordered the aotion to be brought at next sitting. The ease Overton v. R, F. Webb, oiaim for £ll9 Ids, for breaoh of agreement was commenced.
Wellington, last night. A dfputation to Mr BurtoD, Chief Treffio Manager, from carriers aad bust' ness people to-day, urged that the railway 'goods'Bheds ba kept open till 5 p.m. The Traffic Manager promised to oonsider the matter.
i Nolsod, last night, At the Magistrate’s Court to-day, 0. P. Carlsson, lioemee of the Provincial Hotel', was fined £5 for a breaoh of the Act, by taking a gold ring in p'edge for drink from 0. E. Burns. Tho wife of the licensee had taken tho ring, and the defence was raised that the wife of a licensee did not occupy the position of a servent or agent, but the Magistrate ruled that he had always held that an innkeeper was liable for the act cf his agent or servant, and his wife stood in that
capacity The Magistrate said if the licensee himself had taken the ring the I license migbt.have been endorsed. W. Grant, clerk of works to Cooper and Co.i contractors for the post office, who was injured som9 time ago by an acoideut at the building, died to-day as the ultimate result of bis injury. I Inveroargill, last night. At a meeting of ratepayers of the North Ward, Invercargill, it was resolved to petition the Minister for revision of valuation on the ground that it is exoessivo. Whereas tho unimproved va'ue three years ago was £26,000, the amount has now been raised to £36,000.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1694, 10 March 1906, Page 2
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