WELLINGTON NOTES.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXXI, Issue 15488, 14 December 1910, Page 5

WELLINGTON NOTES.

_—s. — [From Our Correspondent.] WELLINGTON, December 13. The new Justices' Manual, a handbook for the use of Justices of the Peace, by Messrs W. G. Riddell, S.M., and A. H. Holmes, clerk of Court at Wellington, has now been completed, and will be issued free, on application to Justices of the Peace. The work has been carefully compiled and will provo of considerable value to Justices of the Peace, taking the place of the Now Zealand Justices of the Peaco handbook, which is now out of print. Tiie new work has been rendered necessary owing to t!ie consolidation of the statutes, which involved a complete revolution in the references to Acts and clauses. • It has been compiled with a view to setting out in condensed form the procedure followed in the inferior ! Courts, as a guide to thoso Justices ; who, without professional training, are often called upon to act judicially. The j limits of jurisdiction and powers are ' plainly indicated. | air G. D. Greenwood, of Canterbury, who has had a successful carper as a > racehorse owner m the dominion dur- j inp; 'the last couple of years, according I to an admission made yesterday in tho ' Supremo Court, ventured into the ' hazardous sport for a unique reason. I Tho owner of Armlet, Danube and j Peircno invested in them _hecauso they were about the onb* things in New Zealand that were not liable to tar.n- j tion. It came about in this way. A j member of a limited liability company, tho holder of a large preponderance, of the shares, lie found himself left with a sum of over £-52,(XX.) on his hands in consequence of the sale of an estate, I the Whiterock Estate. In order to • avoid payment of-tho graduated land tax, as it would have proved an extremely heavy burden, Mr Greenwood said that he had looked for investments olsewhere, and had sent £85,000 to I the Argentine for investment at 9 per j cent, most of the balance, to Queensland for investment, while the remain- | der he had put into racehorses, because j there was no tax on thorn. They ! were about the only things that were \ not taxed in New Zealand. (Laughter.) His Honor: '• Perhaps the At-torney-Gonera] will turn his attention ! to horses now."' j

Speaking at a dinner at St Patrick's College, Wellington, at which the roctor and staff entertained the visiting clergy. Archbishop Redwood congratulated Bishop Grimes on the fact that another college was to be opened in the beginning of next year at Cbristehurch for the higher education of Roman Catholic young men, :;s it showed the progress of Catholic education in New Zealand. He hoped also that the new college would bo as successful as St Patrick's College had been. Hie high school at Christchuroh, >.aid his Craw, would be as St. Patrick's was, under tho direction of the Marist Fathers, and, judging by what he had seen of their abilities in tho field of education, ho had no fear as to its success. Tho Christ church institution would not bo a residential college for the time being. It would bo opened, it was expected, in February.