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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9409, 1 April 1909, Page 5

For Children’s Hacking Cough at night, Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure, Is 6d and 2s 6d.

A case of considerable interest to holders of leases-in-perpetuity was the subject of an originating summons which came before Mr Justice Chapman. It appears that a lease-in-perpetuity was granted Mr Bennie under section 121 of the Land Act. 1892, which reserved the surface as also the minerals to the Crown. Mr Bennie applied under a recent amendment of the Act of 1907 as a “owner of a lease-in-perpetuity” for a Crown grant of land. The Crown being of opinion that such grant could not be made by reason of the reservation of the surface and of the minerals, a summons by consent was set down under the Declaratory Judgments Act of last session for the purpose of obtaining a decision *of the Supreme Court as to the rights of parties. It is understood that a great number of leases have been issued of surface in the Ohura district and these proceedings are in the nature of a test case. His Honor, after hearing arguments of counsel, reserved judgment.

It is not generally known that the Westralian Government has made one experiment in State control in regard to licensing matters. Mr Olifton, a warden from East Murchison, now on a visit to Dunedin, speaking of it, says:—“At Gwalior there is a State hotel. It was erected a vear or two back at a capital cost of £SOOO. Last year it showed a profit of £BOOO. w The manager is;paid a good salary, and the State house is differentiated from the other hotels by its rigid observance of closing time (11p.m.) and of the law in regard to serving drunken men. The other hotelkdepeers are strongly opposed to it. They sometimes collect their own ‘drunks,’ cart them off to the State hotel, and deposit them in front of its doors as sample products. The profits made by the State seem large, but it must be remembered that drinks are often Is on the goldfields. In Gwalior the scale is Long beers and whiskies, Is ; medium and small beers, 6d. ” For Chronic' Chest Complaints, Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure, Is Cu aud S- Cu, i