THE AUDIT COMMISSION.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XLIX, Issue 12641, 31 October 1905, Page 5

THE AUDIT COMMISSION.

(Per Press Association),

WELLINGTON, October 30. The Audit Commission resumed this morning. Mr Fisher called Joseph Willis, clerk in the Olnristchureh Post Office, who recounted the details of seeing the alleged Seddon voucher. It was not an hallucination; three other clerks ©aw it.

At the Audit Commission, Joseph Willis, one of the Christohurch Post Office officials, swore to having seen the R. J. S. Seddon defence voucher. He could not suggest (how it was that the voucher was now missing. The AuditorGeneral's inquiry did not satisfy him. He had seen the whole system of audit and did not think it was one that could be easily evaded . In the face of Captain Seddon's declaration that* he had not signed the voucher 'he would accept it as correct. He had no desire to injure Captain Seddon, but still maintained that (he saw a voucher suoh as he bad described, and which had been signed by some one .

CHRISTCHUROH, Octobev 30

Mr S. W. Bishop, S.M., gave liis reserved judgment to-day in the case of Hughes v. Johnson, wherein plaintiff a married woman ; claimed £200 damages for injuries received dn consequence of a defective bridge which crossed a small stream in defendant's public pleasure gardens at Opawa. Judgment was given for plaintiff for £100.

At tlhe Kaiapoi Magistrate's Court, today, J. G.- Syvret, a prohibited person, admitted the charge of having received a flask of whisky procured for him by a friend, and was fined £5. The accused had previously ibeen convicted three times this year for ia similar offence.