NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2016, 25 March 1914, Page 8

NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

IJSASES & MINERALS. TEST CASE BY PUBLIC TRUSTEE. (By Association.) New Plymouth, Marcli 24, A Judgment of importance to West Coast lessees .wes delivered in tho Magistrate's Court in t]io ease. Publio Trufe tee v. Charles AnArswSj a elatoi for £32135. 6a.' teloyrftj" \m& to defevdiuits for talfcji on land ltasedfrom the. I'liblie Trustee. Tbo Magistrate hewj that the s.tou6 vine tcserved to the Public Tm&tco, as part of the soil, and in tlw kas'o, and the royalty of M. m yard was tecptyod m behalf of tho i wild Trasteei. He assesses! the viitoe of the stono in tbo river at <me4hlrdj and the sa.rface iflama-ges at t\to-tlurcls, aiid therefoi'e gavo judgment for thus Pnblid Ti-ustea for oiicttim] of tho amount claimed, viz., £10 Us. lOA., aftd ■oosts £5 2s. .An appeal may he ipSgcti

WEST COAST'S FUTURE. ' ■«, „ . .eroyintfuthj March 24, flio Prime Minister α-ntt .party left this jmwsung'fw Ohristcluirch.' Mr, Massey said to a ''Star' reporter that m ivrw know more afcoijt' tlio West, Coast, and 15-as folly alive to its retHiiremeats awl possibilities. No doffM it had a-.great Miir* : , fait ih wfts in tiro fcmd-s of the people themselves to .say wJietlK* they would put on thfe braKfi. THE HGHTTOR OFFjGi. ■ • : A.tfc.Kian.d, Match 24. Jt Macßoji&R Thomson, and Witty, M.P.'s qp.eii.ed the North Awkmd liLberal campaign tet night- 'tf hev delivered spewjhos at Seleiisvffio ana iorfc Albert. Besolutious tfb.re carried ■esptesshift .confidence in tho Jriberai party »»d m Sit .Joseph Ward as its leader.

PAtMtRStON fRAMV/AY LQAfI, Paihierstpß H,, Match 24. the Borough Council decided tjjis; evening to tafc tlis accessary steps tij* raid ».pollo:n.the proposal to raiso a loan -of £5500 for tlic instiifflation of- a. system af -teams 'on tia Edison seK-cen-tai&esl battery -system*

CIVIL SERMCE. TJI6 Pitfrhe'- Sfitt'fco • Commissions' Ap.peal Board, which Sat .-here tearing; Objections to the sug.ge&Mqns regarding the classification sebeme. St to- : day for Ctois-telmtch-. ■ < BRIEFIiiiNTJQN* „,■■-"■■ Napier, Sl.arch 34- . The anftuar-colleetibii ii; aid of tlie has-pj-odiieofl. up,te. t : lio' r>w* aejxt'MU IQsV ' T]r6re dfce'stiH » -iiufliv her .of oiits-ido. dontri-.bii.tio.ns to comd {ilv t-^ 1 ..-, ■;<...W-? n S?.»*" , lf:.i-tar(jJl 24.-.. 1 In tie. Arbitration .Court, the -Boiler-: makers inade a-n apx)licatioii -for - a. litn* ■awavd. . Dccfsion was resferved. jho' ■EOac.bv-orKors-also .appl-iotl .{or a Mew Ward, ■ JTq ebicotrpn was rijised. by <tlio ompldj'cr.s.. this *pplica-tidj was iidiDiirned te filinhle ertde.iice. to-be taken ill other districts.. ■