THE MIDLAND RAILWAY CASE.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 302, 20 December 1895, Page 5

THE MIDLAND RAILWAY CASE.

(BY TELEGRAPH. — PRESS ASSOCIATION),

WEllington, this day.

Mr Cooper continued his address in the Arbitration Court this morning, still arguing that the raining reserves had not been proclaimed as provided in the contract. Ho said the Company had from the oubeeb protested against the method and mannerof making these reserves, and against the large areas nob required for bona fide mining purposes, and he contended tho Company had a right to bo placed in as good a position by the Court as if its rights had nob been interfered wiuh and its finance destroyed. On clause 33 he held the Crown had baaed its attitude on a wrong construction of its meaning, and the Company had hundreds of applications from settlers for land, but the Government had refused bo assess its value. The Government had received 576 applications for settlement. By 1890 had the Government accerled to these the Company would have benefited by the cash received for lands and by benefits arising from settlement, bub by refusal of the Government; to give tho Company benefits of the contract their finance had been destroyed:

The kinetoscope, that exceedingly ingenious invention cf Mr Edison, by which the actual movements of the characters in a play, or of the actors in any incidpnb of life whatsoever, can be exactly reproduced, continues to attract many people to Mr Bartlett'a studio. Looking at the electriclighted picture one can hardly imagine thai? the figures moving aboub are not endowed with life. Every twist of a muscle ortnovemontof bhelips is clearly discernible, and the whole thing is as if one were permitted for a moment to peep into the country of the Liliputians where Gulliver meo with his wonderful adventures. There have lately been added to fcho list of subjects an excellent representation of a Highland dance, and a scene from Hoybs' " Milk White Flag." In the latter some 34 persons of both sexeß are introduced on to the tiny stage and enacb the play exactly as it is done in a modern theatre, The scene is indeed a continuous reproduction ■in peito of the play as it appears played by human actors. The kinetoscope ia a most entertaining contrivance, and should be scon by everyone during the holidays, lb ia nob likely to be met with again in Auckland for gome time, and aa it ia a fine example of the marvellous mechanical inventive genius of the age it behoves us all to pay ib a visit.

Ab the inquest on the body of Charles White, senior, of Victoria Valley, Mangonui, who was found drowned on the 15th insb., bhe evidence went to show that deceased left his home on the previous evening to go eel fishing, and bhab his body was discovered next morning in bhe Victoria River. It is believed that he fell in the river on his way back: The deceased was 94 years of age, and leaves a widow and three sons, one of whom he was residing with at bhe time of his death.

Key. T. W. Maceregor, M.A., pastor of North Carlton, Melbourne, and Clerk of the Preebytery there, arrived by the Anglian, and will preach to St. Andrew's Presbyterian congregation, Alteti Road, on nexttwo Sundays.

The e.B. Vivid will run an excursion to Riverhead tomorrow,