THE COUNTY" SYSTEM.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 13, Issue 692, 17 June 1869, Page 2

THE COUNTY" SYSTEM.

GOVERNMENT SCHEME FOR DIVIDING THE COLONY INTO COUNTIES. Thb Thames Times, Bth June, is responsi* ble for the following : It is said that the Government have a scheme prepared for dividing the wbol& Colony into counties, and that maps havtf been prepared in which the boundaries of each county are Uetiued, and that tn» counties will bo proclaimed in a Gazette. l'he matter will not be submitted to tlift iiouse, as it appears they have discovert a clause in the Aet wlucii enables tliein "». adopt this course. This, no doubt, *l' mktt the people of the colony by aurprue.

Justices Justice at Sandiiub=t.—The Daily Telegraph of Melbourne observes i~ •'Justices' j.tstico' is commented upon W .severe terms by the Bendigo Aaveaiser. L'he text is a decision of tue Eaglet** iiencn, sentencing a man named \VIU»»* Oliver, whose only oifence was gclting d: unk and creating a disturbance re^ ra ' log lus reckoning in a puolio-house W twelve months' imprisonment as a rogue and vagabond. When the sentence wa» announced, the man, in a tone of miiijj« surprise and despair, exc;aimed, " iVel'* mouths, I want areuiand. Twelve montli*. Three moulhs for rape'.—twelve ttiouiW iiecause a drunken man, in a moment' ol irritation, refuses to pay lor two piu» * oeei'!—nine moutns lor killing a loan.-** re some of tue sentences whiuu have SW* led the public in tiie fciaudhurst dtftritf, within the last few months,