STRATFORD POLICE COURT. THIS DAY.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 8832, 16 July 1890, Page 2

STRATFORD POLICE COURT. THIS DAY.

Wednesday, July 16.— Before CaC. Kettle. Esq.,R.M. ' GILLESPIE COMMITTED FOB TRIAL. The' Court opened at 10 o'clock After a trial lasting over three days, during which some fifteen witnesses were examined, Constable Gillespie was to-day committed for trial. ,Bail was allowed in two sureties of £50 each. The accused was submitted to a most searching examination, laßting nearly eight honrs, an Tuesday.

Referring to the value of land in New Zealand, the London Estates Gazette expresses its surprise at finding that land near cities in New Zealand is worth considerably more than it is in many parts of the old country at present. A compact farm of 61 acres, situate near an important town in Yorkshire, was sold by auction recently' for about £900 ; -while for a "desirable freehold property" of 87 acres, called Home Bush Farm, with leasehold sections in the harbor district , close to Wellington city, £2250 is asked, which is about the cost of the Yorkshire farm of two thirds of its size some twenty years ago. when land values in England stood as high as have ever been recorded. As prices of colonial produce are largely ruled by London prices, the value set upon land 16,000 miles distant from that market seems rather high as compared with that placed on land in parts of England,