NEW ZEALAND
(By Telegeaph.)
AUCKLAND, April 12
In the Compensation Court to-day £3OO was awarded to Mr S. Smith in a claim against the Government for damages to land at Helensville through taking off a portion for the purpose of the Kaipara railway.
WELLINGTON. April 12,
Although Ministers are not yet prepared te give the exact figures, it is known that there will be a handsome surplus this year. The accounts are being kept open so as to biing in every possible item which can be charged to the year’s expenditure, bub when all is allowed for there will be enough to pay off the £50,000 of deficit it was proposed to wipe out this year, and still leave a good margin. CHRISTCHURCH, Apeil 12, John Davey was committed for trial to-day at Amberley on a charge of sheep stealing. John Wheatley, a second hand dealer, was fined £5 in the Christchurch Resident Magistrates Court to day for feloniously receiving a book stolen from the public library. The book bore the library stamp and a copy of the rules on the back, and was purchased by Wheatley with two others for a shilling.
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 4981, 13 April 1889, Page 2
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193NEW ZEALAND South Canterbury Times, Issue 4981, 13 April 1889, Page 2
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