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Evening Post, Volume XLVI, Issue 23, 27 July 1893, Page 3

The Land Board to-day decided to obtain the opinion of the Crown Solicitor as to whether small grazing runs could be exchanged for leases in perpetuity. A correspondent sends us tho following : — At a public meeting held at Greytown on Tuesday night tho following resolution was unanimously adopted :— " That this meeting appeals to tlio Government to afford an opportunity for the carrying of tho Direot Volo Bill, which was shunted for the Financial Debate. It regards clause 8 of the , L ! censin_r Act Amendment Bill as a needful amendment of the Licensing Act, but does not retard tho Bill aa a whole as any satisfaction of tho people's claim to ihe : Direct Veto, which, if tho Direct Veto Bill is not passed this eespion, must bo stro- , nuously contended for at tho next general election. This meeting approves of tho i A lliance Veto Bill as a means of testing canl didates for the people's suffiajres. That the i Chairman be requested to forward a copy of , this to the Premier and to tho member for ; the district, Mr. W. C. Buchanan." j 'X he latest donations to the prize fund of the Wellington Agricultural and Pastoral Association are : —^6s from Mr. W. A. Fitz- ' herbert ; from Mr. F. Armstrong, Akiteo ; | and JE2 2s from J. P. Kussell. j A correspondent writes : — " Now that t active bteps are being taken regarding the r Karori tramway, let me point out that f almost every man in the city i 3 interested in a this work. Last month one undertaker had 1 40 funerals to Karori. Tho mourners at b these funerals nlono would have contributed ;> tho interest required on the line during that winter month, to say nothing of the funerals 3 by other undertakers, the residents and visi0 tors to Karori and the cemetery, and tho 1 valuable time lost to business men, and of 3 cab hire" A queer stateraor.t with respect to slack- ; ness of business was made by the defendant . in a judgment summons case which came B before tho Resident Magistrate to-tlay. The dobtor was sued npon a judgment for 19s lid, and he stated that although lio was the i proud possessor of a grocery business — j locality not named —he had not taken, beyond bare expenses, sufficient over the 'j counter to pay the demand of his jndgment j. creditor since tho ordor was made The R.M. said tho money owing must be paid a forthwith, or in default imprisonment must 0 follow. The dobtor had goods in his shop, 3 and these ho might have disposed of in some way to satisfy tho judgment creditor. ° Or, at any rate, the latter would no doubt j have been willing to come to somo settlet ment had the dobtor made a reasonable offer. •o It will bo remembered that Borne months ■h ago a number of peculiar looking mounds in lo tho Pelorus Sound attracted the attention io of Mr. J. Rutland, who resides in that disJt trict, and on digging into some "of them he in found a quantity of burnt" bones and a=hes. id Mr. Rutland recently forwarded somo of the ie pieces of bono to Mr. E. Tregear, Secretary id of the Polynesian Foeiety, to ascertain re whether it was likely that human beings n- had been buried in the monnds. Mr. Tregear vs exhibited some of the bones and a handful of se clay at the meeting of tho Philosophical 1- Society last night. He paid he was satisfied o- that tho bones were not those of a human in being, but probably had been part of a large fish. Tho mounds were found at Weka in Point, and one of them was on a platform n- .which had been cut out of a hill. There was it another excavation a little higher up, and ■s- the inference was that it hnd been made in al order to furnish clay to cover tho bones •t- bnrnt on the platform. It bad been suggesig ted that in days gone by the whalers had had n- their try-pots fitted np at Woka Point, and in that the remains found by Mr. Futland wore aa thoso of whales. It might have been so, but iy he (Mr. Trogoar) oonld not understand how ps it was that the mounds were bo far from the sea, and why it had besn deemed necessary ac to cover up tho bones. Tho wholo thing was Id to him a porfeat puzzle. Sir James Hector ao informed tho society that ho also was nnable ue to fathom the mystery.