LATE NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXX, Issue 13070, 9 May 1913, Page 6

LATE NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

iPer Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this clay. The police arrested Stanley Frederick Neville, charged with larceny as a bailee of £550, the property ot Kenneth Morrell, at Sydney. He was remand-eel for a week, awaiting an escort. Speaking at tlie opening ol the new Public Trust buildings, the Hon. Mr Herdman. said that the _indiij,-r of the Commission was satisfactory. Some reflection had been made on the personnel of the Commission, and it had been suggested- that the report was furnished at the instigation of the Government. Such a suggestion was absolutely unfounded. Mr l^erdman commended the proposal to separate native trusts from the European trusts:'' The investigation was conducted with fairness and thoroughness, and with as high a standard of conduct as had- characterised any investigation ever made in New Zealand. WELLLNGTU.N, this day. , Barry, the sick fireman who was refused admission to the Christchurch hospital, was taken to the Wellington hospital- on the arrival of the Maori this •morning. The Seamen's Union intend making representations to the Government regarding the man's treatment al Christchurch.

As the Maori was leaving Lyttelton last night a young woman who was handing an umbrella to her sister on the steamer, fell in the harbor. Mr Erwin. the third officer, promptly jumped in, and held her up until assistance came, and both were rescued. As the steamer' f propellers were working, Mr Erwin'f efforts were more hazardous.

The judgment of the Full Court waf delivered this morning in the case oRiddiford v. Commisf-iorier of Stamp? It went in favor of the Crown. Th* rliity in dispute amounted to £38.2C0 The Court held that both the estate anc 1 the succession duty were payable in respect of the property included in the deed copartnership entered into between the late E. J. Riddiford and his sons, that property forming part of deceased's estate, under the provisions of the Death Duties Act, 1909. It h<§ld, further, that the dutiei were assessable on the value of property as at the death of deceased. On the motion of Mr Myers, leave was granted to appeal to the Privy Council. , .