NEW ZEALAND.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXV, Issue 125, 28 May 1891, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND.

Wellington, May 28, At Wadcßtown last evening John Witton an old settler, dropped dead, ' The Kaiwarra licensing election resulted, ia a win for the moderate party, and the local option poll favoured an morease in publicans' lioenses. D,rjNKDiN, May 27 Tfy» Hon. Mr Seddon to. day paid a yisit of inspection to th.e defence works a.t Dunedin and Port Chalmers. He gave instructions that proper quarters should bo erected for the men at tne^eutralbattery. The deputation waited on him, to bring before him the matter of enoroaohment of the sea at St, Olair. The Minister ad vdoated the introduction of an Enabling Bill, under "whioh a looal body oould borrow for the purpose of erecting a sea wall, ,In the afternoon the Minister received a deputation Xtotx the Fait Rent League, who Mvooated the introduction of a Fair Rent Bill, The .Minister stated that, while prepared to deal with cases of grave hardship, for which there were many precedents, the Government s duty was to conserve the rights of property, and this they w.ou.ld, d.o, At a largely attended meeting in the The.<

atre, it waa decided to form a Kfafcbnal Liberal Association, and Sir R. 'Stout waa appointed President. The Hon tt. Seddon presided, and in the oourae of hk remarks oa , «H ; 9 oli oy °f the Government said bo lontftfKe was a AHuister all Public W»rka would be oarriedout on the oo^peratire prinpiplu.

Supreme Court Retrenchments. ••-<-'- Wellington, May 28. With reference to a memorial to the Miuisfcer of Justice respecting the amalgamation of duties of sheriff mul registrar of tbe Supreme Court in Wellington, the Minister p.>iata out that tho Houue of Representatives decided last; year that some economy should' be effected in working theSupreme Courts. The House aotually went so far as to retrenoh clerks employed in these Courts, nevertheless on taking offloe the Minister found that they were atill employed, and were being paid out of un-authpiiaed'&penditu.r'.-'iHa'vinf? satfafie'd himself 'by enquiry "that 1 it *wotis be highly inoonveoient to, dispense with „ the . olerks, the Minister still felt ?boubd to respeofi *. the,/] wishes of Parliament and td -endeavour ito save -moaey in .some less inconvenient way, < htfoe.ttjlfc atnajgainatjon ,6f thiqffloeji of Regiatrai-and^ Sheriff, this amalgam^ tion will a.pply not only to Wellington, . but to all other places where it is not already in foroe. ABtheiohange has been- decided on and made, the Minister considers it shotald generally have a fair trial, more especially as it hap .been found to oanao ; no inconvemenoe or injury in tHe towns in which it has been for some years in operation,