NEW ZEALAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1874, 2 October 1906, Page 1

NEW ZEALAND.

PRESS ASSOCIATION Auckland, last night,

Mr Kettle, 8. M., gave judgment for defendant in a case against Eichaid Turner, auctioneer, charged with having exposed unripe fruit for sale, holding defendant had proved it was not intended to sell the unsound fruit for human consumption, leaving the purchaser to separate the uasnmd from the sound fruit after sale. This method was adopted because it was moat convenient.

Masterton, last night,

’The output of timber in til’s district has almost coased, owing to the exhaustion of supply. The district is now depending on Dannovirke and Taihapo for most of its requirement?. A local firm pays approximately' £IOO weekly for freight.

Wellington, last night.

In opening a new post office at Lower flutt, Sir Joseph Ward said comparing the New Zealand postal service with similar services in countries ho had recently visited, it was second to none.

Invercargill, last night,

Ti. T, Montagu, who was released to-day after serving six months for absconding from his creditors, was arrested on a charge of f rise representation in regard to the v • m of a mare to an insurance compa y in Sydney in 1906 Accused was icmandod for eight day's, awaiting the arrival of a police officer from Sydney.

At a meeting of the Wellington Law Studonta’ Association the subject of tho evening was a lecture by MrH L>. 801 l on “ jSativo Law in New Zealand.'’ ’I ho lecturer stated the position as to ownership of the land in New Zealand in the earliest days, when the Crown recognised Now Zealand as a sovereign and independent State. In 1840 (Governor Hobson was sent out, aud on bshalf of the Crown entered into the famous Treaty of Waitangi with the nrtivos of this colony. By this Treaty the sovereign guaranteed to the natives the possession of the lands until they chose f -sell. This was the foundation of law relating to native land. Mr Bell then traced tho history of the legislation dealing with this class of land. He explained tho principles of the mass of statutes on the subject, and distinguished the different series of Acts. Ho stated tho three different classes of native land which were and always had been in this colony. The fee simple, he said, was and always had been since the Treaty of Waitangi vested in the Crown, aud the possession was and always had been in the natives. But this possession was only of tho lands on which the natives had at the time of tho great Treaty occupation or hunting rights, or right of fishing, etc. Mr Bell’s lecture was vory interesting and instructive, and at the conclusion a vote of thanks was carried with hearty acclamation. Mr H. I. Yon l fault was chairman.

“ Your sceptic is your only true balievor,” was the paradox which a youthful speaker at a meeting in Christchurch liung at an astonished audience. He explained promptly that it was only a quota!! n, arid that what it meant was that scepticism had been the moans of clearing away many falsities and errors in science and religion. Ho instanced the abolition of the custom of burning witches as a forward step wrought by scepticism. ; for it was the influence of the first men who did not believe in witches that ultimately led to the universal disbelief in their power?. A Farmer's Testimony Has used Sjkob’ti Drr-rch f;r six jears.—Six jor.rs is a cooil ong p rind in which to test a proparati or. Ualc-s sat sfrct.ry ronults wero obt.imd no farmer would continue to use lees's Drenrn on valuab'e rtock year after yrar. It has ba*n triid, tested, end proved to bo the most valuable Clench in tho Colony. Mr 11. Burden, O.orohangj, Auck'and, writes: ‘• Dear Sir,-I coaster that you hav.i eon ‘erred a benefit on tho fr.rmi: g community of our colony in prsentmg a Drench that can be used with absolute ealcly, and wi h ben-.fic'al results for L. -?>. I have used Sykes's Drench far six ; ‘ with most gratifying sreoeES, and shad always recommend its use."

Insist on having Sjko’s Drench. Refuse all Fufcstitut'B for tU‘s iuvr.'.uab e remedy. From til storekeepers r ‘> If Ed tikrs’.Dronehiag Bo n. >'or ndmhrstonng r>j kos’ Drench, price Is Cd. If as so'row thy your - days shaded ? Or hast fbou a cold in thy head ? Thy tonsils, are they out of otder ? Thy uc'o is tho tip of it red?

If these be your syrrptocoß, ). charge thee, 11 nostrums mfaiior abjuie.

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