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Globe, Volume IX, Issue 1219, 30 January 1878, Page 2

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CABLE NEWS

SPECIAL TO THE GLOBE. [moil OUE OWN CORRESPONDENT.] AUSTRALIA. Wool Frauds. Sydney, January 30. Farther wool frauds have been discovered. Interior wool is packed in the centre of bales purporting to be all washed. A cable message has been received from America, announcing that the Bill revising the tariff has passed the committee. The duty on wool has been reduced.

INTERBROYINOIAL

[per press agency.] New Plymouth, January 30. At a meeting convened by the Mayor to test the question of raising a loan for municipal purposes, a resolution was carried i ] favour of borrowing twenty-five thousand pouuds for water, gas, and public improvements. A poll will now be taken. Wellington, January 30. In the Court of Appeal to day, while discussing certain points of law arising out of a case before the Court, Mr G-. E. Barton, barrister, intimated in an unmistabkethlo manner that the Court was animated by a spirit unfavorable towards him. The Chief Justice asked Mr Barton to explain the meaning of his language, because the only construction that could be put on his words was that the Court was' guilty of partiality in the administration of justice. Was that what he meant? Mr Barton replied that it was. The Chief Justice and Mr Justice Richmond then retired for a quarter of an hour, and, upon returning, the Chief Justice informed Mr Barton liiat the Court flaed him £SO for contempt of Court. The Court then at once adjourned. Mr Barton declared in Court that he would not pay the fine. Messrs Travers’s and Reader Wood’s resignations will be gazetted to-morrow.