LATE TELEGRAPHIC.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1222, 2 August 1895, Page 19

LATE TELEGRAPHIC.

Auckland, July 31. This morning at the Police Court, before Mr R. S. Bush, S.M., Charles Gilmour was charged that on the 6th July at Auckland he did unlawfully execute a transfer of certain shares in the Kapai-Vermont Goldmining Company, in which transfer the name of the purchaser of the said shares was not written in ink at the time of execution thereof. Mr Mahony pleaded guilty on behalf of the defendant. He pointed out that this case was different to other cases brought before the Court. The Kapai-Vermont Company was registered in Sydney, and the popular opinion was that the shares did not come within our law.

Mr McAlister asked His Worship to inflict a heavy penalty, as there had been five convictions in Court, and the practice still went on.

Mr Mahony submitted that it was a Sydney transfer, and the shares could only be transferred there.

Mr Bush: Still it is necessary that the document should be stamped here; that is the point at issue. Mr Bush inflicted a fine of £3O and £ll4s costs. He said that in any future case a heavy fine would be inflicted.

Mr Mahony applied for the document to be restored, but Mr McAlister objected, saying that other proceedings were pending. Mr Bush said he would take time to consider the matter.

The document is a duplicate one. On one side is scrip for 100 shares, and on the other side the transfer.

The parishioners of St. Matthew's have decided that the stone church fund commenced in Bishop Selwyn's time, and now amounting to over .£23,000, be utilised by steps being taken to build a stone church. Christchurch, July 31.

The je sellers of Christchurch, employers and employees, have prepared a petition to the Colonial Treasurer, protesting against the duty of 25 per cent, on cut and uncut jewels, on the ground that the previous free admission of these enabled the manufacture of jewellery in the Colony, and the giving of employment to a large number of men.

The Bootmakers' Union to-day sent a telegram to the three Christchurch members and Messrs Kelly and Pinkerton : "Boot trade council disgusted with new tariff. Our evidence before Commission not considered."

Dune Din, July 31

At a meeting of the City Council to-night, the Mayor drew attention to the new duty of 20 per cent, ad valorem on gasometers and gas appliances. He said the Council would have shortly to import a new gasometer which Would cost from £15,000 to £20,000, and the duty would come to about ,£2,000. That seemed an enormous tax on a public body, and at his suggestion it was agreed to communicate with the Government and the local members, urging that local bodies, who erected their own gasworks, should be exempt from the tax.

Messrs lieid and Gr£iy complain of the duty on threshing machines, and point out that they cannot be made in the colonies for years. The only result of the duty, they say, will be that farmers will be charged higher rates for threshing. The City Council decided to-night to appoint Mr F. G* Patterson, of Melbourne, as expert inspector of abattoirs^" The enow is rapidly disappearing in town, and the weather promises to be fine. Wangsanui, July 31. The police received information .from I Karioi on Saturday night that a man I named Whitmore, who had been keeping a ! private school at Oakune, cleared out on Friday night with all he could lay his hands on, also taking two boys named Jewell, aged 11 and 14 respectively. He has been traced towards Taupo through the snow, and it is believed that the boys have perished with cold. No reason is apparent for the man's action. A constable has been sent from here at once, and search parties are out from Karioi.