TELEGRAMS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 72, 24 August 1885, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(pee unite? press association; Hawera, Saturday. At the Hawera County Council meeting yesterday, all. the members being . present, the- following resolution of general interest heje. was passed, "That the Dog Tax Collector be authorised to call upon certain .Native owners to register their dogs. In the eyenijof-theip-ra^ fnjng to do -that, he call upon tMPk. polce for assistance m- terms of sectiom 5, Dog Amendme»t Act,, : 1885, and that the Chairman request Inspector * PaVdy;tb support this action of the County Council." VThat it is desirable that the Haw.era County be at- ' tached to the Taranaln Hospital District. 1 * Carried- "unanimously; T '/iThat m the opinion of this Council the time has nowarrived when aSpecialLand Board; consisting of the Commissioner of. Crown Lands and the Minister for Lands is no longer required for the West Coast Land District, and that the Council trust that the ordinary representation so as to include the West Coast Land District with;, the irijurisdiction of the' Waste Lands Board may be provided for m the Land Bill now before the House." Carried unanimously. ' • ■.'•.- \ Napier, Saturday. At a meeting of the Chamber of Commerce yesterday, the Native Lands Disposition Biil was discussed at length, the following resolution being ultimately adopted :— Cl That this Chamber is of opinion that the Native- Lands Disposition Bill as brought down by the Native Minister is not. calculated to promote the settlement of the country," '■.«.■ The Borough Cpuncil has passed a by-law devised with the object of putting down the nuisances of the Salvation Army processions. ; . ■.-. . ;^ ' CHfiistCHOßoe, Saturday. Yesterday afternoon 4998 . forfeited shares m the Southern Cross Petroleum Company were sold by, auction. The hiehest price obtained w«is " 6di' at which 40 were sold. Fifty were sold at sd, 2075 at 4d, and 2833 at 3d. V ... ■„ . Application wasmade before Mr Justice Johnston, m Chamber^ yesterday, to change the venue. of the libel action brought by Dr Stewart against the proprietors of Hie)Evehing Press to Wellington, on the ground of the feeling- here baing embittered against Mr tVakefield. Mr Joynt, for Mr Stewart, opposed. His Honor asked if there was any objection to Dunedin. Mr Wilding, for the applicants, agreed to conirminicate with his clients, and the application was adjourned to Tuesday. . / Dunkdin, Saturday. It is rumored m commercial cirles that two large local commercial houses are m temporary difficulties, bnt it is believed that both will be able to arrange matters. Some smaller failures are also* reported. Blenheim, Saturday. The charge against Mr Hornby, piiv prietor of the Marlborough Times, of printing and publishing a supplement without an imprint, as provided by the Printers and Newspapers' Registration Act, came before Mr Allen, R.M., yesterday. The ' supplement contained the hospital site correspondence, out of; wliich two libel actions are now pending 1 , and the case excited great public interest; His Worship held the charge proved, but as it was an act «f extreme carelessness he would not deal with it under section 18, which imposed a minimum fine of £5, and maximum fine of jS(> on every copy up to twenty, but under section 22, which inflicted a penalty not exceeding £20 on anyone printing and publishing a newspaper from Avhich were omitted the particulars required by the foregoing section. The defendant was fined 10a and costs.