THE Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. Friday, JANUARY 19, 1877.

Inangahua Times, Volume III, Issue 66, 19 January 1877, Page 2

THE Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. Friday, JANUARY 19, 1877.

Our report of yeiterday'i proceedings of the ; District Court is unavoidably held over, as also the report of yesterday* sitting of the County Council. „ Aii the meeitng of the County Council held y««ten^ %£&aakin was appointed Return* i Jto|''©ffloer -for the purposes of the coming' ele^iioS fyt the Bidlag of Antonio's. It was decided, to iaiitv Mwto the ?xims and '" ~> ' \.■ t ■ •'

admtiswg required by the Council. The Council decided to adopt the Counties Act in its entirety. The other business was not of special importance. In the District Court yesterday his Honor assessed thflcoatiin the patter of Williams 7. Shaw, the amount being fixed at £22 155. Tenders are elsewhere invited for the erection of-preauisea in Beefton for the Bank xrf New South Wales. The District Court will resume this morning at IS o'clook, when the remaining business of the session will be disposed of, and his Honor will leave for Greymouth tomorrow morning. A telegram was received yesterday by Mr Lucas, from Greymouth, stating that the Alii England Eleven sailed from Sydney on Wednesday for the West Coast. The cricketers will probably arrive in Greymouth on Sun» day afternoon. The town waa yesterday canvassed by Messrs Williams and Jolliffe for subscript tions towards sports on St. Patriok's day. The list showed considerably over £100, and jt is expected that the total will he brought up to £150. This amount added to the pro* ceeds of booths, gates, &c., will probably ens a ble the Sports Committee to distribute some* thing like £220 in prizes. A circun/ stance was brought under notice in the District Court, yesterday which may convey a valuable hint to fithers than sharebrokers an legal managers. In the course of the hearing of one of the cases in the matter of the winding up of the Julius Yogel Company, the register was produced showing two entries following eaoh other on the same page of the book, of transfere effected by the legal manager of the company. The first entry was dated, but the second was not, leaving i« to be inferred that both the transfers were efr feoted and both the entries made on the same date. Mr M'Lean, the Liquidator in the case, stated that it was the custom in registering transfers to allow an indefinite number of entries, to follow each other, the first only bearing date, the succeeding one© being assumed to, bear same date. Jt^was not a re- , gular praotice, he said, to attach the date to each entry, or even to indicate repetition by placing dots under the date. Mr Pitt, io support of this, said, that he was prepared to call two gentlemen connected with the banks who would bear out what Mr M'Lean had said relative to the practice. His Honor said that with all due respect to any evidence which might be called upon the point, he was certainly not prepared to hold with it, each entry required to bear date, or at least there should be something to connect the entry with a preceding date. As effeoting transactions in shares the point appears, to be of some importance.