LOCAL AND GENERAL

Patea Mail, Volume XII, Issue 55, 5 June 1899, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Tho co-operative workon, to tho number of eighteen, Imvo commenced work on the Mftben road, and ten more are expected to join vuo Maben itoad squad during this week. Unequalled and Invincible Woods’ Great PeppennintCure for Coughs and Colds. 1/6

The Borough Council meet; this evening at seven o’clock and Cemetery Board later. To-morrow morning the County Council ravels at eleven o’clock, and the Hospital Board at two in the afternoon. A very successful meeting of the Orange Lodge to >k place on Friday last, Bro. (Sinclair, W.M., presiding. After the completion of umtino business two candidates were initiated, making seven fur the two lodge nighis, and four new members were proposed.

The address of the Governor at Kr-tikati concluded; “ As a contented, happy, and united community we offer you hearty Cead Mills Fall the. English or Scotch or Irish be wo, Teuton or Maori, whatever we be, we are Irishmen all incur welcome to thee.”

In a settlement near Auckland a poster was displayed on the boardings that on Sunday evening a popular preacher worVl discourse on “Hell; Where it is, and How to Poach It.” A wag put underneath, in view of certain local developments, “ Members of the Borough G uncil, and Volunteers in uniform, wannly welcomed.”

The Eev. Father Golden, who for many years has had charge of this parish, left by train ou Friday last for Ins new charge at Stratford. Father Golden has, during Ins slay here, endeared himself to the hearts of Ins flock, and universal regret was expressed at losing so devout and attentive a prio-t. He has tho good wishes of all denominations for his future success and happiness. The Postal Department notify th it in order to meet the lequirements of the Postal Union, as greed upon at the Washington Convention, it has been decided to alter the c hours of the Id, Id, and 21,1 stamps in use in New Zealand, and from an early date the Id will be printed in green, the Id in red, and the 2ld in a darker blue. This change is also to be adopted by the Australian Post Offices. The colours of the Id and (id stamps will, owing to this change, require to be altered, hut the now colours are not yet decided ou. A private letter just received from Captain Andrew, Ist Lancers, Hyderabad Contingent, who will bo remembered as the first New Zealander to gam a io npotitive Imperial Commission under the present regulations, gives the gratifying intelligence that ho has recently bom up for the High Proficiency examination in Persian, and passed most successfully, being in addition most highly compifr mented by !ho Indian Government. He pissed tho ordinary examination in Hindustani some years back, and will in a short time try for the Higher Proficiency standard in that language.—Christchurch Press.

In the Court of Appeal judgment was given in the ease of Staples & Co. (bicwors) v. Corby. Defendant purchased nn hotel from the vendor, who had himself purchased it from the plaintiffs. Defendant’s vendor, in the conveyance to him, entered into a covenant with the plaintiff for himself and assigns to sell no colonial beer other than was purchased from plaintiff. Defendant purchased with a covenant which was entered into before the recent legislation against tied houses. The question was whether the defendant was bound by the covenant, and the Court held on English 'decisions that the plaintiffs were entitled to an injunction restrlining the defendant from a breach of covenant with costs. The question whether the assigns of the plaintiff's would be entitled to i ho benefit of the covenant was left open. The repeated vomitings of the Premier through the North that the Government has reduced the rates of freight on grain are being ruinously discounted by the Southern papers. The Christchurch Press of the 2‘hd inst. publishes a particularly destructive article, backed by an exhaust tive table of freight rates for the current year, on the'subject. The North Otago Times, dealing with the same topic, says : •‘The Government having entered into an agreement with the Tyser Shipping Company fur the eonnveyauee of wheat and oats to Great Britain at reduced ■ rat-s, settlers are requested to make early application for space,” This advertisement was inserted by the Government on the 27tii of April, and on the 24th of the previous month the other shipping companies had announced their rates of freight, which are exactly the same as the Tyser line are charging, When, therefore, the Government inserted the advertisement they knew that the statement cent lined in it that the freights were reduced was untrue. In spite of that fact they continue the dissemination of the untruth. The circumstance of the Government making the arrangement with the Tyser Company i s duo to the fact that an elec tiou is drawing near’, and Ministers aim at seeming the agricultural vote, which is nut with them.