WELLINGTON ITEMS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LXXIX, Issue 9986, 15 March 1893, Page 5

WELLINGTON ITEMS.

[Pan Press Association.] WELLINGTON, March 14. The Liberal Association baa passed a resolution that every elector should be allowed to vote at licensing elections. Mr Seth Smith, Chief Judge of the Native Laud Court, who is now in England, finds he is obliged to undergo an operation on hie eyes. He expects to return in May. The Bail way-Department has succeeded in getting trains through to Masterton, by starting on the other side of Kaiwarra and connecting each side of the slip on Eimutaka. The Natives on the East Cape have promised to abstain from farther interference with surveys; The Uriweraa have engaged lawyers and intend to fight out the difference in Court. The Government has decided to maintain Quail Island, Lyttelton, and Somes’ Island, Wellington, as stock quarantine stations, abandoning Goat Island, the Bluff, and Motuihi. The latter will still be used for horses arriving at Auckland from America. Au Order-in-Counoil. containing the following regulations under the Land and Income Acta is gazetted :—(l) Every person or Company engaged in any business as owner or charterer of shipping shall be assessed for taxation in respect thereof upon the income derived from such business as such owner or charterer carried on iu Now Zealand, and also upon income from any business as such owner or charterer originating in New Zealand and carried bu with places beyond New Zealand, bub not upon income from any such business originating in places beyond New Zealand and carried on with places within New ‘Zealand. ;.;£3) The income of every Insurance Company derived from business carried on in New Zealand, and from income from investment in Now Zealand other than upon land or mortgages of land, shall bo deemed to be income of such Company in New Zealand, and the income of such Company shall not include income from business carried on beyond New Zealand, or income from investments beyond New Zealand. (3) Every person or Company engaged in business in New Zealand as an owner or charterer of shipping, and every Company carrying on business in New Zealand as an Insurance Company within the meaning of the said Acts, shall be liable to all other provisions of the said Acts, or either of them, or of any regulations now or hereafter in force thereunder, eo far as the provisions of the said Acts or regulations are, or may bo, applicable to any such person or Company as aforesaid.

The Gazette notifies that cock pheasants and Californian quail may be taken or killed in the South Canterbury district from May 1 to July 31, and native game, excepting the tai, huia, •white heron and created grebe from April 1 to July 31.