ABSTRACT OF SALES BY AUCTION.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XI, Issue 652, 5 February 1859, Page 4

ABSTRACT OF SALES BY AUCTION.

LYTTELTON. - r On Monday—Sale of Mr. Packard's Boarding House on Norwich Quay, and Freehold Houses and Land in Dublin-street, by Mr. Parkinson, at the Universal Hotel. tJHRISTCHURCn. «f?' iBQ! aS#!? c « v^ uable Horseß the property of Mr. St. Hill, by Mr. Thomson, at the Royal Hotel. This day—Sale of the entire horse Tramp, by Mr Parkinson. ■ 3

nTCr!,,- T"esaayrSale of Kauri Timber, by Mr. C. M. Olhvier, at Christchurch Quay.

B|gns the most natural and probable. And the*, S "V th£ r the *ord 'the <»»H the »u£ matter, the effects and consequence, oV the S and reason of the law. ♦ # ♦ # A.t7Jfc effecta and consequence, the rule ia, that whea words bear either none or a very absurd ri«,|2f .W^railj u^er^ood, we i JTwtffffifc the received Hense of them. Therefore the mMWiB For whentb.. reason peases, the law &s£& Mcewiße to cease with it. yugnc 5 W?U^ be JUBt as sensible to arirae thaf Puffendorfs surgeon should be «wL£h with the utmost severity- as to main^ thft a t the Wellington reserves are handed over to the Province of Ahuriri. We may be allowed to quote one more .short sentence, from Stephen s commentaries:— . Statutes are to be construed, not according f their mere fetter, but % the intent and object wifK winch they were made. It 'occasionally ha D Den» therefore that the jftdges who expound them^ fl obliged, m favour of the intention, to deoart Jn some Bieasore from *he words. And this ioav Z either by ho ding that a case within the words k not within the meaning; or that a ease not within the words is withm*he meaning. * ; It appears pretty evident that the reduction of the Provincial Council of Wel]i n?fcon to 29 members by the over-riding Act of the General Assembly is within the meaninealthough not within the words of that Act The Provincial Government of Wellington will probably be.advised that it will be safer to call together the Council of 28 members than to spend the public money without votesxm the plea of a verbal inaccuracy in the 'New Provinces Act' ■