LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VII, Issue 1182, 26 November 1880, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

-h'j<> F.uiii ■>-nfr-T>>. +'■■■■■- ■■■ ' . ■■ ' to-morrow being a club Club will statrt-fdr'Roseland at2.io. -p.m. Crews to be at-tfie'fihedat 2'sharp. ; We call attention "in our advertising colaroris-of iHe programme for the J Battery I"etc, on St.. Andrews day, and we also remind, those interested that the sale of Booths Will take place to-morrow at 2 p.m. fit 'the auction inartof Messrs. Pitt and Beririett.^' •■'•' Says the Wairarapa Standard : — ln a private 1 letter i from 1 a' valued and well-in-formed correspondent the following item of public intelligence* is. contained. "Some j oneiias^teiegraphed Home that the colony is" going in for and I have got;^ hint/. thas : a big ' bearing ' spec_ has been doiip'pn Change. / J have a suspicion —mind only a'suspiciori-^-that Eeuter was made use of." - - , !|^fiame T "Glei'c&eri; a nurse at the Hobart Town Hospital, , who was recently dismissed from the institution (says the Sydney Bulletin), used to have her home letters addressed to,tJjffi£V9?M p J'gSf *; J? n °hess of Gleischem; " .and it was rumourecl..that she was related to.,Qaeen^ Victoria. ; The Lady Superintendent could iipt stand this, so she' put this Dowager^" Duchess to_ scrub floors; H^^CtfA^arltionv^VGount^Gleichen, to whom the J^dycalludpdvvto above may possibJy^Ave been related, was one of the moat ' intimate 'teendl' of the'late Prince Consort, to whom, 'if We mistake not, he was distantly related.

The first action in the Colony for default in sending iv Property Tax returns, was heard and decidedm the Wellington B.M. Court a few days since, one Mr. Crease being the victim. The department consented to forego coats, and to press only for the minimum penalty of £o, which, with an order for the payment of quadruple duty, the Bench had no option but to impose. The decision given is calculated to have great effect upon those who have neglected to comply with the law, but it is stated that in Wellington the returns have been furnished by nearly all from whom they can be expected, and that only a very small proportion of those taxable have omitted the necessary formality, which they are now likely to perform on seeing that an action once begun cannot be withdrawn, and that the offence being proved the Bench has no option iv awarding the penalty. Even an . abettor in the omission is liable to a penalty of £50, and' the penalty of quadruple duty and a fine of from £5 to £100 is applicable to those who send an incorrect return, as well as to those who send none at all.