TELEGRAMS.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 14 April 1910, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

SCDDFA" DKATH AT PALMKKSTOX. [PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.] PALM KKSTOX N".. This Day. Alice Searle, aged M. till lately a rt*si:lt*ist of Pahiatua, died suddenly last night. Heath was attributed to heart disease, hut the inquest "ill he held to-day. Deceased had one child with her, hut another was in Pahiatua. TAXATION CHAHOKS CASK. WKLTjTXGTOX. This Day. In the Court of Appeal .to-(hv. argument took place. regarding the case of Mowron Brothers versus Bishop and another. Tn answer to the contention of Council tor the plaintiffs, thai the information had not heen laid within thi'ee years after the alleged offeree took place, the Solicitor - General contended, first, that the alleged charge was not the doing of an .act. hut the evading of taxation by that act : that the doing of the act was not the completion of the offence, and that the offence was complete onlv when the .taxation was evaded, which might he many months later. Thi'it being so. counsel conitinued. even if plaintiffs argument was ri'iht. the '.Wairistrate had not erroneouslv dr.'-ided a.nv point, of la.w collateral to the merits, and prohibition would not be :>.t this stage. Argument is proceeding.