NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 7172, 16 September 1886, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

[per united press association.]

AN EXTRAORDINARY OVERCHARGE '

liV STAMP DEPARTMENT.

Wellington, September 16. ;

A case of some importance was heard in the. Supreme Court this morning. The plaintiff, Mr. Pritchar,d, of Blenheim, bought in at a sale for £50 a property over which he held a mortgage. The Stamp Office sought to charge him duty on the whole value (£9,000), which he resisted. Judge Bichmond decided that he was only liable to pay on £50. ™ A SUBSTANTIAL PRESENTATION.

Mr. Grrubb, late postmaster at Napier, and now assistant Inspector of the Post-office here, was presented at 2.30 this afternoon with 100 sovereigns, a silver Japanese bowl, and an address by Sir J. Yogel, on behalf of the ttapier subscribers. DISCOVERY OF A DISTIL PLANT. Dunedin, September 15.

A gentleman walking amongst some tussocks at lloxburgh noticed an iron nut above the grouiad, and pulling at it, brought to light the worm of a btill. He communicated with the police, •when a search was made, and the plant was found almost complete.

DIVORCE CASE.

Dunedin, September 10.

Iv the Divovco Court a decree nisi was granted iv the case of Sarah Emma Kilpatnck against Joseph Kilpatrick, formerly an auctioneer in Dunedin, on the ground of cruelty and desertion. Eespondent did not appear.