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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume V, Issue 240, 11 October 1870, Page 3

Blunders of Legislation. — The Dunedin telegraphhic correspondent of the Post says: — Another serious blunder in legislation has been discovered. The JSale for Non-payment of Rates Act, provides, in section three, that the interest at the rate of fifteen per cent, is lo be charged on rates paid by the Superintendent for absentee proprietors. Section four provides that the Superintendent shall register a memorial in form of the schedule. The schedule states the interest to be twenty-five per cent. The Act is considered void in consequence. Referring to a great native meeting now being held at Tokangamutu, the Southern Cross says : — The natives generally contrive to wrap up their intentions in so much mystery that it is rarely possible to forecast the ultimate issue of their meetings. The former "great native meeting" at Tokaugamutu ended, so far as we were able to learn, in nothing. An immense quantity of pork aud potatoes was consumed, and a good deal of speechifying was indulged iu. Saving certain enigimatical utterances by the King about " the right to the right," and (as a matter of course) " the left to the left." we were not much enlightened, and it seems doubtful whether we ever shall be. It is satisfactory to know, howeyer, that at the latest advices by way of Ohinemuri everything was quiet, and there was every indication that the meeting would terminate peacefully. It is only right, to state, however, that from a less reliable source we have information that the real object of this meeting is to form a coalition between the Hau Haus and the friendly or the neutral parties. Why is France like a skeleton ? Because only a bony part is left.