IMPORTANT JUDGMENTS.
Dunedin, This day
Mr. Justice Williams gave judgment in the Auditor-General v. tbe Maniototo County Council case to-day. He frees no reason why the County Council should not vote a reasonable sum for travelling expenses, and are empowered to pay them if tho Council consider a fixed sum per mile sufficient. He sees nothing in the Act to prevent it. He thinks the Act of 1873 was intentionally framed toenablo County Councils to do what the Maniototo Couticil has done, and so avoid unseemly discussions which inevitably toko place if reasonableness inevcryitemofitidividualmembers' expenses had to bo discussed. In the case of Wesptort Company v. tho Queen, the Judge held steel coal tubes, on which duty had been claimed were as much the partof mechanism for drawing solid matter from mines as tho piston and valves of the mining pumps are for lifting water, and therefore should be admitted free. In the Gallic will case application is being made to tender fresh evidonce.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 5549, 12 June 1889, Page 3
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