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(Received 9, 11.40 a.m.) London, August 8. Share quotations:—Hank of Australasia, £-119 10s to £l2O JOs;. Bank of Now South Wales, £I,‘J and £l-1 • Union Bank, £6l and £62; National Bank of New Zealand, £6 12s 6d and £o 17s 6d; Bank of New Zealand, £ll 15s and £l2; N.Z. Loan, £9B. THE COURTS. (Per Press Association.) Pahiatua, August 9. , the Magistrate’s Court, Alfred Ernest Keohle, charged with commitling an oli'ence on a girl under 16 years of ago, and with administering a noxious drug to her, was committed to the Supreme Court for trial. APPEAL COURT. MASSEY V. “TIMES.” (Per Press Association.) Wellington, August 9. In Massey v. “Now Zealand Times” the Judges ol __the Appeal Court were evenly divided, Justices Williams and Sim being in favour of dismissing the appeal, and Justices Edwards and Denniston in lavour ol allowing it. Justice Williams announced that as the Judges were evenly divided, according to the Judicature Act the judgment of the Court below was afli' nied. Ihe Court therefore made no order, and no order as to costs. Justice Williams said the jury found that the cartoon was pohu.-d. pure and simple, and he interpreted that to mean it was not prove! that the cartoon imputed that plaintiff had been connected personally with the distribution of the Black pamphlet. He could not say that twelve reason- ; able men might not have taken -Jus view, and the verdict of a jury for defendant should bo final unless it clearly appeared they had neon misled or did not honestly consider M,e question they had to detenui c, Justice Him considered the cannon ambiguous, and the verdict ought notio lie disturbed. Justices Edwards and Denniston hold that the carioon was defamatory, and the jury's ver- - diet was against the evidence. Dir Bell K.C., asked to bo illowed to move at the next sitting of the Court for leave to appeal to Lie V Privy Council. Leave was granted. 5;

ED UC ATION A L IXS'uj'UTE V. f WANG AXU 1 EDUCATION HOARD. J Wellington, August 9. | fn Now Zealand Educational Insti- $ tute v. "Wanganui Education Hoard, i the majority of the Court of Appeal (Justice Edwards dissenting) dismissed the appeal, alarming Justice .. Chapman’s judgment, holding that an Education Hoard has power to require or insist that no children below Stan- ’’l dard li. shall attend or he received as pupils at district high schools. Costs on the lowest scale were allowed of to the Wanganui Education Hoard, di payable by the New Zealand Educational Institute. lU