TELEGRAMS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1138, 4 September 1882, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(PER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) WELLINGTON This Day. The Government have received the following opinion from the Solicitor-General relative to the appropriation of licensing fees and dog tax I am of opinion that Town Boards and not County Councils are entitled to license fees payable under the Licensing Act, 1881, and also fees payable under the Dog Registration Ret, 1880. The grounds for this opinion are as follows : —As town license fees, the section of Town District Act, 1881] to the effect that every town district shall be deemed to be an incorporated town within the meaning of an Act extending the definition of town boroughs. Section 109 of the Licensing Act provides that fees for license* granted in respect of premises in any borough e paid to the Treasurer for such borough. Section 4 of same Act extends the definition of the term borough to any town incorporated under any Act of the Legislature. As to fees for dog registration the Dog Registration Act is administered by local authorities and what local authorities are within its scope are mentioned in the first schedule, This schedule includes boroughs, and section 2 defines the town borough as including every town incorporated under any Act of the General Assembly. AUCKLAND. This Day. At midnight a fire broke out in a block of five two-storey shops’in Newton, belonging to Mr Spinley, butcher. It commenced at Marriott's, the auctioneer’s. The cause is unknown. Mariott’s, Spinley’s (fancy goods), and Walker’s (...idler) shops were ou -ied down; Banbury aud English’s dairy and Murphy’s fruitery shop were saved, but damaged. Those burned down were insured in the Royal for £l2OO, and in the Colonial for £350. Walker’s furniture was insured for £5O, as were also Marriott’s - oeds in .he Colonial for £3OO, being only one-third of their value. Spinley’s was uninsured; others unknown. The two shops saved, but damaged, are insured in the Colonial Office for £750. Some of these risks are probably reinsured in other companies. The Shooting at Barlow. The Barlow shooting affair is now exposed by the chiefs Wahanui and Te Whitiara. Patupatu, Barlow’s companion, confessed that he and Tu Tawhiac, son of King Tawhiao, were brined by Barlow. Tu Tawhiao received a watch, ring, and £5, and Patupatu received £4. Wahanui and Te Whitiara deserve great credit fcr the exposure. Mr Walters, the race horse owner, is somewhat better. A boy at Onehunga poured moulten lead into a bottle of water. The bottle exploded, scattering the molten lead over his face. It is feared it will cause total blindness. Sarah Johnson's sister states that it was no fault of Cleaver’s that the marriage did not take place earlier. Before the birth of the child he pressed Sarah to marry him. A blacksmith named W. Jno. Lyttle was charged with bigamy at the Police Court this morning and remanded for a week. Lytile was married to his first wife at Belfast in 1876, and with her emigrated to New Zealand, and resided for a cons'derable time at Taranaki, which place he left in guest of employment, He was supposed to have been lost in the wreck of the ill-fated Tararua, his wife believing such was the case, accepted the hand of a man named Baker, a se’tler, and was married to him, little dreaming that Lyttle was alive. Lyttle becoming aware of the fact that his Belfast wife had found another husband, went to Wanganui and made love to a young women known as Polly Willows, whose friends live at Newton. Polly induced her husband to take her and her baby to Auckland, where her friends resided, and where he would find work, The facts, however, became known in Wanganui, and a facetious paragraph appearing in the local journal led to the arrest of Lyttle here on charge of bigamy. The hail allowed is £5O aud two sureties, DUNEDIN. This Day. Mr McGregor, C.E., has dislocated his shoulder by being thrown from a horse yesterday. TIMAEU. This Day. The body of E, H. Tate, who had been missing since Wednesday, was found on Saturday afternoon, about five miles north of the town by two little girls, and word was at once sent to the police. The body was close to the top of the cliff overlooking the sea, and among tussocks ; it was lying on its back, with the legs extended, and the arms close to the sides ; the hands grasping tussocks. The face was calm, and the whole aspect, with the exception of the position of the hands, was one of perfect repose. No signs of violence are on the body] in fact there iti nothing oo far to lead to any simhiae

as to the cause of death. He must have been dead two days at least. The body was brought into town, and an inquest will be held to-morrow. Mr Tate was formerly a resident of Wellington, but had lived here for the last 13 years. He was greatly respected by all classes of the community; he was about 60 years of age, and leaves a large family. INVERCARGILL. This Day. At the inquest on Morton a verdict was returned that he died from a dose of arsenic administered by himself, being at the time of unsound mind. General regret is felt, but little surprise, at Morton’s death by his own act. He was a clever landscape gardener, and enthusiastic in Natural History and taxidermy, besides being more than usually learned in botany, especially in New Zealand, in fine he was known and appreciated by the leading savans and amateurs in the Colony and elsewhere. NAPIER. This day. A good deal of interest is felt in the first sale of land, by the Native Land Settlement Company at Gisborne, which will take place ou October 10. The Union Co. have arranged to offer special advantages to passengers proceeding to the sale.