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Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 164, 16 June 1883, Page 2

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(UNITED PBESS ASSOCIATION.) Dunbdin, June 14. In the case the felectric Light Company y. the Stamp Commiisioner, an an appeal fi om the latter's decision that the company must pay stamp doty, Judge Williams upheld the latter on the ground that the Company was not exclusively a manufacturing one, as they are empowered to acquire and. deal m patents. Timaru, June 14. At a public meeting at Geraldine it was resolved to form a Cheese an Dairy Factory, with a capital of £5000. The prospectus has been issued of the Royal Flour and Oatmeal Mills Company, with a capital of £40,000, and a very influential provisional directory has been appointed. A,t a meeting of the Harbor Board \ to. day, it was resolved to call for teniers for a still further extension of wl arfage aocommo a ion. | Auckland, June 14. The Hon. P. Lalor and Hon. W. Keete are passengers by the Wairarapa tor Sydney, A number of morroco jewellery cases found floating m the harbor werp identified by Mr Herricksen as paH of the property lately stolen. Jane 15. The City Council carried resolutions condemning the appropriation of the paddock at the Government House for a University. The resolution is to be forwarded to the Auckland members to oppose the proposed site. Costley's trust estimate valued prooerties aB follow :-Keal estate, £28,000; mortgage, £37. 400 ; fixed deposits, £12,000; share? , £1930; total, £79,330 ; present annual income, £4858. The Executors are r< solved to realise the freehold estate, notwithstanding- the expression of opinion from tbft charities interested and the public m favor of retaining them . A large number of excursionists went down th c harbor this morning to see the Austral, which anchored last night several miles outside the North Head. On the excursionists reaching the place, however, it was found that the Bteamei was nowhere to be seen, having doubtless gone out at an early hour this morning. NAriER, June 14. Buprerae Court has been occupied all day m investigating a dispute relative to a piece of land variously estimated as worth from 14s to £8. Counsel are engaged on each side, an? there are four surveyors aad three other witnesses. The sitting will have to be adjourned to allow the chief Justice to go to Gisborne on Tuesday. During the sittings, his Honor has taken occasion to express 6trong disapproval of the sittings of the Court being held at Gisborne and other small places, on the ground that impartial juries cannot be obtained. In a case heard at the Resident Magistrate's Court to-day for obtaining goods under fa-se pretences, it was shown that a cheque cashed for a servant girl bad no date, the pretended signature was misspelt, the whole writting was illiterate, though pro* fessedly by a well-known tradesman, and the body of the cheque was for £6 Hnd the amount at the foot was stated at £6000. The Resident Magistrate i flicted a light sentence, remarking the tradesman who took the cheque was as culpable as thft girl. A meeting of southern settlers is called to consider the rabbit question. The firry pest is not yet m the province l>ut has spread to thfl rabbit fence on the southern boundary, aad it is feartd it will m«ke its way round the fence if further pr ventatives measures be not at once taken. Hawera, June 15. At the land sale to-day seven section of bush land, 885 acres, were told at L 2 j to L 3, and one at L 4. Maori lease- | holds were tak«n ot 2a to 2« 4d.