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Otago Witness, Issue 2509, 16 April 1902, Page 56

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On the realised figures for 11 months tlie railway revenue for the year is expected to be about £100,000 above" the Ministerial rs innate, which was £1,760,000. Tlie expendi ture should be abput £1.245,449. or £93.445 above the estimate. At a meeting of the Police Provident •Board on the 9th the application of Sergeant •Murray, Auckland, to retire on May 31. was granted. Sergeant Kelly (Christchurch), Constables Joyce (Kaiapoi), Walker (Invercargill), and Salmon (Ravyera) retire on the 12th inst. on account of ill-health, and w ill receive the usual allowance. The Rev. Mr Fitehett, M.A.. son of Dean JTitchett, of Dunedin, is coming to Wellington to act, pro. tern., as incumbent of .St. Thomas Church. ! The Representation Commissioners are to i meet in Wellington before the end of thiinonth. | The Chief Justice gave judgment tlnynorning in the Friendly Societj case Osbouio ,v. D. Wilson, an appeal from the judgment of the Palmerston North magistrate. wh.> had awarded the respondent £13 for medical .attendance on the child of a lodge niembc r. [The respondent was one of the surgeon- of fthe lodge, but had taken up the case at tlie request of another surgeon, on whose li-t fthe appellant's namo appeared. Hi^ Honor (held that there was no evidence of a special 'contract between the parties for attendance [on the child after the first visit, for which ehe doctor admitted he could not have .charged. If the doctor intended to charge Specially for ••üb'-pquent attendances he ehould have distinctly said so The judjr ar.ent of the magistrate was set aside, and J.he appeal allowed An Order in Coum il ha- been pa-^ed im [posing an c\port duty of 2= per 100 super licial feet on kauri timber m flitchc- not rxeeeding 30m in width a. id 9:n in thick lie-ss Mr C. C Kiltie. .S M . at the Wdiiganui Police Court, in dealing witli a ca^e again-t the licensee of ;-er\ing ;i nrohibited jx-i-rm. Admitted that, it was veiy diflicuk ioi Jicenseos to identify prohibited pc r-oiw. and taid the law should be made t<; t ompel them }to wear a badge on the aim. that tne\ be known. During the last month the Land and Sui ;vey Department put upon fiie nurkft f< •- 'teelection eight propc-rtie? wine 1 ' have bei n acquired by Government for c'o=ei -<tt'. Sn^nt. The Cabme-t on Thur-day (Vfinit'ly i< f-oivcd to ret. re all civil undiit- over 65 years of a^e 'Ihe balloting for 47 -re tion- of land thro;, n open for selection under loa-e in t>. rpttuitv took pliuf.it Hamilton unde r tlie -up' rv 1-1011 of Mr Mueller. A--i = tant Bur\ cv or j.on> r.if There were 1476 appluanon- i-". the 47 f-ectioiis into which a block cf 45,490 £><rrW been divided. About 150 lUfuliciuUi weic

present. The drawing was done by a young girl. The successful drawers are fiom many different parts of tlie colony. A most extraordinary case was before the S.M. at Palmer Eton N. A local resident laid an information for bigamy against his wife, a woman of apparently about 25 years of age, alleging that she had married at Oamaru five years ago. Four times a remand was gi anted on the application of coun«el for the prosecutor, who did not appeal personally the last time, and the justice* therefore dismissed the case for want of prosecution, with £4 4b cobU Prior to the dismissal the sergeant of police re ceived a warrant on information laid at Oamaru by the same prosecutor, with a request that the defendant be arrested and remanded to Oamaru. The justices yesterday remanded the case till this morning, when Mr Greenfield, S.M., refused a icmand to Oamaru, and remanded the accused for one week. Prosecutor did not appear, and was not represented. A Palmerston North resident has wjritten to the Premier urging tliat, when in England, he should endeavour to secure greater facilities for colonial youths joining the navy.