LATE NEW ZEALAND.
(Per Press Association.) Dunedin, lasi right. _ A sitting of the Assessment Court f r Tokounairirio district was Jiold to-day, ,n which a good deal of interest was taken, many farmers taking strong exception to the Government valuations. Origilial^ - fifty objections were put on, but in tlicse compromises were arrived at, and in others the objections wero not supported No settlement was arrived at
in six eases. After hearing evidence the Court reduced the valuation in these six cases, one, however, being subject to the condition that Court had power to do so. Tho farm in this ease was leased by a mother to her son, who paid rent,which suppoitsd tho department’s -valua tions. Counsel contended that tho valuation had to be fixed according to the evidenco and not according to tho rental.
Napier, last uigbt. At the inquest on the body of tho man Alexander Matthoson, fouud dead on the Olrig station, a verdict was rouroed that death was oaurod by a gunshot wound, but there was no ovidenoe to show bow it wae Infloted,
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1808, 14 July 1906, Page 3
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178LATE NEW ZEALAND. Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1808, 14 July 1906, Page 3
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