TOWN EDITION.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 5909, 14 August 1890, Page 3

TOWN EDITION.

The case of J. T. Carr v. Wairoa County Council was resumed this afternoon at the R.M. Court. J. H. Brown, formerly chairman of tho Council, deposed that plaintiff whs told that tho Council would no doubt eettlo with him about tho two oxtra plans necensarily required, and that they would bo ail tho more roadj- to do co if tho work proved a success. Ho had no authority from tho Council to make any arrangement regarding tho extra plans : but, considered as chairman, had a right to authoriso Mr Cfirr to Il4Uko these extra plans. After hearing the evidenco the R.M. gave a decision for plaintiff for £25, coats £1 17s, witnesses , expenses £3 6s, solicitor's feo £2 2s.

Says "Atlas," iv tho World :—" Thoro is nothing like perseverance, as Lord Loughborough and Miss Vyner have proved ; for when the obdurate parents on both sides said they would not hear of the engagement, Lord Loughborough, as a last resource, took passage to New Zealand, announcing his intention of never return-

ing to England, which threat tho stony hearts of Lord Rosslyn and Mr Vyner were unable to resist."

Mr H. M. Stanley has (the London correspondent of the Manchester Guardian learns) signed au agreement with Major Pond to deliver fifty lectures throughout North Amorica, beginninsjon November 11. Mr Stanley, accompanied by his wife, will leave England on the Whito Star steamer Teutonic, which sails from Liverpool on October 29, four days after Mr Stanley receives the degree of LL.D. from his Cam-

bridge admirers. Tho great treveller is to get £5000 for bis first lecture, which will bo delivered in Now York city. Ho will get £200 for each of the remaining forty-nine lectures, which are to be given in eighteen of the principal cities of the United States. Tho subjejt on which he will speak all through the tour will bo African exploration. It may be stated that the above rates are almost double thoso which tho explorer received during his last tour.

Mr Hugh Watt, M.P. is determined to adhere to his idea as to the equity of taxing , aerated waters. Ho haa made an oxhaustivo investigation with reference to untaxed ternperonce drinks, and, as ho in-

timated to Mr Gosohen, has arrived at an estimate that these probably exceed

r )0.000,000 dozens per annum ; so that a

tux not of sixpence, bat only of one penny por dozen, which they could well afford, would provido a revenuo of over one million sterling. As I said a week or two ago, Mr Watt is not a bigot, and does not see how teetotallers can consistently propose the ex-

tinotion of a source of revenue from which soma eighteen millions sterling is derived, while at tho buiqo time th«y can strenuously object to an impost derived from other sources, and first, and foremost, luxuries which at present pay no taxation whatever. David Wood, 32 years of ago, a porter, lian boon neutt!iicod "to sixty days' imprisonment at Glasgow for obtaining money under frilpo pretonees. The accused, who was in the employment of an upholstcror, told his mastor that his child was ill. Next day he stated that tho child was dead, and on tbe Saturday naked to be allowod to go home early to bury tho body. His employer, believing the story, allowed him to atop work, and also gave him seven shillings, which ho stated he required to complete the amount of the funeral oxpenpos. On making enquiry afterwurds, however, the employer discovered that tho whole story was a fabrication. In pawing; sentence t'ne Stipendiary Magistrate (Mr Germnel) eaid tho otfenee was one of the worst that ever came before him.