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Kumara Times, Issue 1169, 28 June 1880, Page 4

' 5! er y Cross Company (says the loangahna Times} has come forward with a very cheering return as the result of the crushing jnst concluded. The cake of gold was lodged in the National Bank yesterday, and weighed 4950 z Bdwt, from 464 tons. The prospects of the mine are said to be of the bight stjorier. A communication has lately been received by the Resident Magistrate at Wellington from the Department of .Justice, the effect of which will be to subvert a practice which pas hitherto prevailed in connection with •iu °»? a^- 008 b y officers in the service of the Municipal Corporation. Up to the present time officers of local bodies have been regarded by the Clerk of the Court as " pubhe officers " within the meaning of the 142nd ■ Sofia 00 rn*' Justices of the Peace Act, 18 i j l 8 View fche Miniater of Justice has ruled to be unwarrantable, and instructions have been issued to the effect that in future :tho benefit of this section is not to be extended to such officers, so that all summonses applied for by officers of the Corporation must now be paid for before being issued. vr-- has an with the ■ Minister of Justice on the subject, and in- , tends, we understand, to take action in , “sfhament, with a view of getting the Act amended so as to allow of the former prac•woe being continued. _ One of the members ot the Masterton Borough Council has an eye to economy, it seems. That local body recently received a bill for burying dogs, Is per head The Umnoillor in question expressed his astonish- < ment at the charge, and remarked that in - place of paying that amount they might have received It by taking the carcases to the shop of Councillor , who carries on business as a butcher, The Daily says that its reporter had his life soured ever since then by a man who follows him about carrying a cleaver in one hand, a zinc pail m the other. The inhabitants of that place , . should watch for the disappearance o' dogs and newspaper reporters, and religiously abstain irom aansagis for at least a month after any such event.