GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXII, Issue 65, 14 September 1906, Page 6

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

[PHESS ASSOCI4TION.7 FEILDING, This Day. At a meeting of the Borough Council last- night an opinion was received from Messrs. Bell, Myers, and Bell, that the agreement with the Gasworks Company for the sole right to supply gas to private . consumers, was void, that power only being granted by Act of Parliament, land the council's right to enter into such • agreement being limited to public supply such as lighting streets. The council contemplates acquiring the gasworks, and this opinion considerably strengthens its lunds in the negotiations. NELSON, This Day. At the Magistrate's Couit, Motueka, John M'Nab, of Eiwaka, was fined £1 and costs for killing a sea leopard. It stated that a marine animal, presumably a seal, was stranded in a creek near the Riwaka wharf. Defendant found it wounded, but it showed fight, and he knocked it on the head. It was afterwards, from a description, deemed to be a sea leopard, and the skin was * sold to a hotel-keeper. The question for settlement now is : To whom does tlhe skin belong — to the purchaser, or i 3 it to be confiscated, as ii was illegally taken? DUNEDIN, This Day. ' In conformity with Dr. Hocken's* express wish, his collections will bo housed at tho museum. OAMARU, This Day. At the Magistrate's Court this morn.ing, before Major Kcddcll, Charles Kearns, a second-hand dealer, pleaded guilty to keeping liquor for sale in a no-license area, and was fined £50 and costs. TIMARU, This Day. Mr. Justice Chapman had a long day sitting on a case commenced last night, in which a Christchurch syndicate, T. ,W. Belcher and others, sought |o leceive £3360 as a reduction in the price of a block of 7780 acres of land bought by them in March last from Scott and Mackenzie.. The land was of two qualities — ploagliable 'and unplougliable — and they were told the area*^ of the latter was 1200 acres. They assessed the respective values at about £7 and 'H3 per acre, and accordingly gave £50.000 for the whole. After the agreement was mnde it was found by survey that tho unploughable tussock land was 840 acres excess- of 1200, and claimed '£4 per acre refund on this. The vendors asserted that the syndicate bought the block as a whole, and denied the legal right to the allowance. Mr. Skerrett (Wellington) appeared for the .claimants, and Messrs. Raymond and Rolleston for the vendors. Judgment was reserved.