DUNEDIN.
Tuesday.
In response to an mv tation from Mr Watt, K.M., seventeen Justices of the Peace met to day to consider the most convenient manner of disposing of the business of the. ciiy Police Court in accordance with the present arrangements of the Government. Mr Watt explained the programme of the Govern* ment,. and objected to the meeting departing from it. Several speakers expressed their decided, disapproval of the course taken by the Government in not having communicated with the Mayor on the subject, and also with proposing to limit the.functions of Justices in dealing with cases of drunkenness aid such like. It was resolved that the Mayor should be the presiding magistrate in the absence of Mr Watt, and that another Justice be select i from the list to sit with him.
Mr G. M. Eeed has laid a criminal information for libel against Mr Macassey this afternoon.
The Dunedin election wF be hotly contested 1, and it is now supposed that the ultra-Ministenalists wH support Mr
Oliver.
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Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2914, 18 June 1878, Page 2
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