DUNEDIN.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 15, Issue 1194, 7 October 1870, Page 2

DUNEDIN.

. Tuesdat, October 4. Anotheb blunder has been discovered in the legislation of la3fc session. • The Sale for the Non-Payment ot Rates Acfc provides, in section three, tbat interest at the rate of fifteen per cent, shall be charged on all rates paid by the Superintendent ; whereas, in section four, which provides that the Superintendent shall register a memorial in the form of a schedule, it is there stated that the interest shall be 25 per cent. The Act is considered void. Wednesday, October 5. The telegram question is attracting attention. The TDaily Times points out thafc the practice of restricting messages to a length of 200 words afc a time, is contrary to the printed regulations, which except English mail press telegrams from the restriction, and that, therefore, on the arrival of last English telegrams, the Government acted unlawfully in imposing this restriction. It is believed that the arrival of the Gothenburg, on Thursday night, with the English mail telegrams, was made known the same night ia Dunedin, Christchurch, and Wellington. The fact was certainly known here.