LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 179, 31 July 1903, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Interesting reading matter will tefound [ on page four of this issue, i Exempted students who intend to sit at the ictoria College examinations in October next, are reminded by advertisement in another column that their names, and a list of the subjects in which they are to be examined, must be in the handsj of the Registrar on or before 15th August. 1903. * '

The New Plymouth Borough, and j Taranaki Hospital Exchange Bill was introduced by Mr E. M. Smith, and read a first time on Thursday afternoon. Mr J. W. Foreman succeeds Mr Hark-! ness as Chairman of Directors of the National Dairy Association.

Mr E. M. Smith, with a Parliamentary party, leave Wellington to-day on a visit to New Plymouth. There is a probability of their breaking the journey at Stratford, and if they do so, they will not arrive ia town till Saturday morning,

Mr Strouts, who has been in tho local branch of the Bank of New South Wales for several years, has been transferred to Auckland,

Judgment was given by the Chief Jus* tice on Thursday iri the case Tegetmeier v. | Bank of New Zealand Provident Fund, j His Honour held that :Viv Tegetmeier was entitled to continue his contributions to the fund. Correspondence put in during the hearing of tho action shows that Mr Tegetmeier asked to be relieved of the position of general manager of the bank, owing to being hampered in his powers. We givo a rominder of the unreserved

sale of furniture by Mr .Newton King this afternoon on account of the late Mrs Morton's estate. A large quantity of valuable old china, and solid silver ware, are amongst the numerous items to be disposed of.

The Borough Council invito tenders ucmerote stops, fencing etc., for iroprov

iag Victoria Esplanade. The secretary of tho Hos,.>i r al Ball has prep ired a statement of the receipts and expenditure, which b'iows a surplus' of :.9i. 7s 5.1. . Tho total receipts were £ll7 14t BJ, and the expenses, part of which www afterwards returned as donations, £26 7s 3d. Wish the Government subsidy, the proceeds will amount to £2Ol. His Excellency the Governor, and party, arrived by the mail train on Thursday, and went north by the Ngapuhi.

Tho Hon. C. H. Mills will bo in New Plymouth on Saturday, and remain until Tuesday morning. During the argument on the packet license cases before the Judges in 'iV tilington last week, some very interesting and

important questions as to who owns the bed of tho Wanganui River above the tidal limit were discussed. It was argued that the bed—that is. the Boil over which tho river flows —of the river, above the ebb and flow of the tide, belongs to the natives, and that under the Treaty of Waitangi they are entitled to it It was further contended that the Crown has no title to the bed of the river above tide limit till the natives sell, or in some other way part with it to the Crown. Between 200 and 300 of the Victorian railway employees who participated in tha late strike, have not yet had a day's work since tho strike terminated. Some of those who have been working full time since the end of the Btrike will have to take a spell shortly to make way for those who, up to the present, have been idle. An important grain case was heard in the ABhburton District Court, before his Honour Judge Ward and a special jury. Hugh Kennedy, of Elgin, farmer, sued the Now Zealand Farmers' Co-operative Association to recover the sum of £450 Is Id, being tho amount accruing from a sale of wheat made by the Association, and which plaintiff alleged had bean sold without any instructions from him. Shortly after the wheat was placed in the

co-operative store, the price went up Is per bushel, aud the plaintiff claimed for tho whole amount of grain sold at the difference between the price obtained at the time of the sale, and what could have been obtained later The jury, after an absence of ten minutes, gave a verdict in favour of the plaintiff.