THE WAIMATE ADVERTISER. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8 1900.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 43, 8 September 1900, Page 2

THE WAIMATE ADVERTISER. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8 1900.

On Thursday a meeting of the various town Justices of fche'Peace^ was held, to try and obtain redress foi- what has loiig been to suiters in the Magistrate's Court. During the last twelve months, the Stipendacy Magistrate (Vfajo-r Keddeli) has been able to attend only twelve times out of twenty-six. This is probably no fault of Major Kedd«)l's, for he has additional important Government duties to attend to. but it does point to the inecessity of having another HSffltendarv Magistrate, who will RH^K^Bfe^^sit ,in Waiißat" when m^^.^i3|P|^ffi^ißti-ict } and, many cases eofflnefwfoi'e the Court' upon whicb the. Justices are unable to adjudicate. "The natura^ consequence is that -these are adjourned again and agam witha proportionate loss of nfoney and time to both parties. The Justices' of the Peace are to be commended for taking action to remedy this, grievance, and it is to foe, hoped the petition wili not the way of so rnauy others and enjoy a lengthy rest in some departmental pigeonhoks. The matter is far too' pressing to be shelved, either through fed-tapeism or parsimony.

For some little time past, much" Las beoa mad© of the fact that the mother of a trooper in the. i Fust Ne-w -Zealand Contingent had been unable to obtain any part of his pay, although she was in destitute ' circumstances. It was generally understaod th&t the Government had refused to pi*y the money, although an order had been left for its payment. This, it appears now, is not the case, and all the talk which ensued about official negligence is so much wasted energy. When a trooper intendß to leave a portion of his New Zealand 4>ay behind, for the benefit- of relatives and. friends, he signs an order to that' effect.' Such order -was not left' by the man in question, -and he,, in addition, , described his father • his next of irinfer ptH|poses<of ' commuuication should he (the' trooper) be killed or invalided. Under the circumstances, the Defence Department could do nothing. They could not now compel the trooper to hand over a portion of his pay, although they could have directed him to make provision for his mothep, who is destitute, before he left, had the fact been known* The woman is now receiving some aid from various people,, and it is to be hoped that if any similar cases occur, which is not very likely ' the whole facts of the case will be ■ known before such a large amount of comment is made.