Telegraphic.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXII, Issue 42795, 24 October 1905, Page 3

Telegraphic.

[by TELEGRAPH PRESS ASSOCIATION | Wellington. This Day. "When the Audit Commissioners opened yesterday there were some skirmishes between the Bench and Mr' Jellicoe, who appears for Mr Fisher. He began by asking if the order for reference had been attended to, * and by whom, and wanted the Commission to interpret the order and also to be allowed to make a motion of urgency. The Commission declined, and there i was some heated argument, counsel being repeatedly ordered to sit down. Application to have witnesses ordered out of C"U-t met with b tter success. Burn l - the evidence of the .first witers*—R. H, Williams, assistant accounted in the Defence Department—Mr Jellic >e siid he was there to show th t the system of audit was defeo i'-e and n farce, and tried to object to some of the questions of witness, but was ruled out In cross-examination witness said the Imperial G vernment, had waive 1 iho matter of pre-audit in New Zealand for payments on account of South Afiici, and had agreed to take the past audit. Mr Jelliio 1 said the voucher ith<-y were enquidng was probably “one of the theteidegal payments outof this Imperial money.” and he was on the trail of the voucher that was never audited.