INTERPROVINCIAL.
fPRKSS AOBNOT.I ! Wellington, Friday, i Mr George Thomas reports Adelaide flour at £16 to £17, colonial, £13 10s to £14; oats, 2s 6d; bran, 9d; wheat, fowls, 4s; maize, 4s 6d; pollard, £6; potatoes, £9 per toU; bacon, 3d; bams, 10d; cheese, 8d: butter, 7d; oatmeal, £16, It is understood that the Property Tax • Bills are to be ready this evening.- They will consist of rwo Bills, an Assessment and a Property Tax Bill. Two blank forms will be issued to every householder, one relating to land, and the other to personal property, the former to be filled in and dealt with in the game way aa the present land tax, which tax is doubled, besides other property being taxed as well; the second blank form will Jiare to be filled in with the estimate of the Talue of all his worldly possessions and every description of all debts due to and all debts owed by him. This statement is to be supported by a statutory declaration and w to be forwarded to a court composed of three Commissioners sworn to secrecy. The court will deduct from the estimate all debts owed by the person, and the £300 exemption, and the balance remaining is taxable property, on which a pennny in the £isto be paid. If the Commissioner disbelieves tbj> statement made he can call upon the property holder to support it by the evidence of a valuer appointed by himself. - Criminal proceedings are to be taken in case of fraud. At the Court of Appeal , Arthur T. Nation -was struck off the rolls, at the instance of * the Otago District Law Society. In the case of Regina ». Reid, in which the prisoner was the paid manager of the Colonial Building Society of Dnnedin, several law points bad been reserved by Judge Williams. The Court held that the conTiction was good on all the counts but two.
Ashburtox, Friday. The following are the results of the second day's racing :— Stkepleciiask : Ada 1, Raven 2, Lone Hand 3— Racing Clcb Handicap : Numa 1, Lara 2. — Tradesman's Handicap : Orange Peel 1, Merlin 2, Cassandra 3,
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 267, 21 November 1879, Page 2
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354INTERPROVINCIAL. Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 267, 21 November 1879, Page 2
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