TOWN EDITION.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 5614, 27 August 1889, Page 3

TOWN EDITION.

The Inspector-General of Schools wns today engaged in examining the Girls' High School. All jurors in waiting were discharged at four o'clock this afternoon till ten o'clock to-morrow morning. Captain Edwin wires at 2.2G p.m. : — " Every indication of frost to-night, and low tides during tho next twenty-four hours." The first, case that will come on at the Supreme Court to-morrow morning will be thit of false pretences against William Garrett. A witness in thf. Grand Jury room today, when handed a Bible, refused to bo sworn, saying ho did not believe in it. The foreman of the jury told the witness he had no other way of taking his evidence. Tho person who had stated his unbelief in the Sacred Hook then took it in his hand and was sworn in the usual way. We cannot help thinking that little importance is attached to the present form of oath taking. At the sale of Harbor Board leases by Messrs. C. B. Hoadloy and Co. to-day the follow-intr were disposed of:—Seo. No. 2. Northcotc street, Mr. P. Dolbel, £9 ; west quay, sec. . !. *, Mr. E. P. A. Plat ford, £40 ; sec. 24, Waghorne streot, Mr. E. P. A. Platford, £11; seo. 2_, Waghorne street, Mr E. P. A. Platford, £10: sec. 10, Waghorne street, Messrs. Barry Bros., £0 ; see. 147, Western Spit, Mr. Hawkins, £3. All the prices are annual rent.