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Thames Advertiser, Volume XXVIII, Issue 8455, 15 June 1896, Page 2

The Crown JVuseciitor of Olago referral in tho Dunodin Supremo Court. at. tho lust sitting to the evident oxtun t to which perjury is committed in the colony. J1 c. went .so fur as to remark that liiulid not tliiulc ho .should bo overstating matters very much if bo said there was hardly tin important ease tried in any court of tho colony in which perjury was not committed by ouo side or the other. lie uttributal this to thi) fact that prosecutions for perjury were so raro,ancl thought that it would not be a bad idea if the definition of perjury givon m the Criminal code were stuck upon the ..walls on tablets, so that n witness would have before him whilst he was giving his evidence something to remind him of what the consequence- of giving fake testimony would be. Alongside of the code there might also be printed the Ninth Cotnmtuutment, which says: " Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour." Perhaps if the one thing did not detera, witness from committing perjury the other jjiiglft. We ;tgraj with Mr Haggclt that «o»ncr thing should be done to call the attention of witnesaess giving evidence in a court of justice to tho hat that there is a punishment attached to the making of false testimony.

At tho iuquost on tho body of Mr Tanner, iato of Wuihi, a verdict of death from natural causes was returned, Mrs BrooltiuH has received from tho authorities, the arrears of pay duo to her lato huabaud. Tho Pacroa of the Uatik of New JJeiilund has been raised to tho status of a Branch, Mr 0. Miotics being Liio innijagG!', j Mcssra Harris and llnjjjjnrd, of tho , Thatnca Hauraki G.M. (juwpauy, luff Auckland by the Mariposa on Ha'lurday afternoon, en rm'<r, lor England, via America. Mr Alf. Shepherd, of the Tramway Hotel, Juirangahnke, having sold that hotel to Mr JJunyard, has paid Mr Unrney AlaoDonnoll £2000 for tho Urotara Hotel at Katikati. Tho now telegraph wire from Paoroa to Waihi, is up an far ay Waitekauri junction, and will bo brought to Waihi in a few days. This wilt bo for Waihi alone, and tho old wire will bo usod for Wftilekanri and Karaugahakc. At tho Pacroa Police Oniirl on Friday, Frederick Alley was fined HI and eoslii M..i (id, for riding over Sheetum's llridgo, Paoroa, on Juno J.Hlh, at other than n talking pace. Messrs Mitchell and Nalhnn were tho presiding justices.

The Uunedin " Star" has good authority for stating that tlio directors of the v. oloniul Hank, should necessity for doing so arise, will j;ivo an exp'anution of thor administration of the alliiira of that in* slilution.

The ((Ucstion of gold mining life Karori again eamo beforo tho Wellington City Council the other cconing in tho sliaji'u of a report by tire City Kesurr <<a Committee, stating that an ojl'cp had been submitted by this parlies interested (or a lease for Ml years (with light, of rtr niiwnl), at a peppercorn rental, n- royalty of In pur ounce on all gold obtained i ()» worfcH to ho wmliieid only from oonw point situated between u line (rawn due oust from tic storehouse near tho dam and the northern boundary of the Keserve, and carried on to tho satisfaction of the Government Inspector of Mines, and the Council to supply wator for tho works afc 4ij per hW gallons. The Committee recommended the grunting of the lease, and the report was udopted,

s Kliirlliug ul. William Wood's I'oilcn struet, for Cusli. .Sugar Company's w.'ft white, -J. 1 , |icr lb,' or Milt for i|.s .'ld; do. N». | Crystal, libs (Wild, or ofllbs lor Us fid; bust (Jem Flour, .'Ullis, "m lid; best tfoutheru Potatoes, -Is ner ni-t. ; new Currants, *Ud D); Sultanas or K\mm, fill; I! ice, filiw for Is j Middles (llmbesl), Id per dozen; tins, do., Is -Id dozen ; now ,1,1111 Id Hit; %rm Candles, fid. Al!ol.lier#iod.s H|it:illy cheap, tin w\y.v.i\nd imrrhaiual onee. ijueb prices 1

Wo licir it is vory likoly that Si, George's Ohoir will rcprodueo tho canlata" Athalio" at an marly dalo. It is vory probable it will be given on u Sunday afternoon in the Uliurch. hast Wednesday Mr J aine-H Christinas, of Wuihi, mot with a very serious accident in the liuUkmii bush. Ho cut hia foot with an axe. and blood poisoning tut in. Uo was carried doivii by hLsitiulea to the Itoh Koy hotel, where ho is receiving every altunl.ion from D<'. Wil-hl,

Mounted Constable Horn received notion on Saturday in tho "HVcl that he will bo ictpiirrd to take up permanent duly in Taurang", and ho loaves fur that, town alino4 immediately. Jhiiiiu', lih c'i;lil yun-H 1 rcddciien at the Thumeu he lini proved liini'iolf a nio:it dilinait officer. His vciy likidy that Comstabfo MelTicc, nlao of tin; local force, will be appointed lo Wailckiiuri, ut which (station ho is at pi'OSOIJt,

Mr W. I'oud, the we'l ku«»n local iißCitt (i/ Ui« Auckland "Herald," has been n'tjuMtcd by his fiimto lake no duty in town lor a period and wilh that puipoi'O ho leaves tho Thiimos for Auckiaiiil this morning. Mr CW. wilt piobably have to Hit round tho Exchnme and do the ordinary work of a mining re| orto.r. That he has been rck'eated tho task shows tho confidence Messrs Wilsona and Morton ropo.se in him.

A deputation consisting of Muss *k Hill and Bpoonoi' waitrd upon the Warden (If. Kyro Kenny, E rj.) rltirinir lii.i roceitfc viuiUo'le Atohn, urging upon hia ationUuti tlio ii'TOssily of additional clerical labour in the To Aroha ollico, Thn dopu« lai inn pointed mil I ho great iuoon veriioneo BiiJlbit'ci by uiiufcrs and othen> trunsuctiti|? bustncßs, owing to the ureal increase m tho work of tho ollice. '1 ho Warden roeniral llio deputation ronrH'oualy mid promised that tho tuitttcr should he attended to.

Tho Mends of Mr John Carter, late manngor of Bunkers Jlill mino, Coromandcl, will Irani with siucnro regret of his decease. It wid be remembered that Mr Cnrlor was taken from Coromanilol to Auckland i|uilo recently suffering from typhoid fovor. Notwithstanding that everything possible was dono for him ho took n eliaogo for tho worse on Friday nij?ht, and iiassod away at about 7 o'clock on Saturday cvcuinir. Mr Kdean, a director of the Bunker's Hill G.M. Co,, was especially attentiro to him during his illness. Dccoased will be intcrrod at tho Purowa Cemetery to-day at <i o'clock. Ifo loaves a widow and n''i children. Mr Carter was n liroema-iou, belonging to tho Corinthian Lodge, and had time allowed wo understand that efforts would have been mado to accord him a Masonic funeral.

Kugstcr's magnificent collection of stereo-sc-opio glass views, known under the title " I'ounu the World Exhibition," is now, for a few days, on view all da)' and evening, at Trembalii's .shop, Pollen street. Admission, ;}il for one, or Is for live stereoscope ,— [At.vr.]

The" Jla.uraki Tribune" says j-" The Government snows to have dealt hardly with Mr Henry Alley of Hikuiaia, b'onwtimongo Mr Alloy od'etrd his land at Ilikuliiia totho Government at. ,C 3 10s per aero; after considerable d«?»y, the Government offered &'}, 17s which Mr Alloy dedliued to take. Mr Alley recently sold to a London Syndicate the whole of his farm at .CM per aero. Owing to the stopstaken as to the Tairua licenses., tho London Syndicate communicated with Mr Caduinn re the mineral rights on Mr Alloy's land, nnd fllr Oadman roplicl thnt Government was going to tnko away all mineral rights on private property by legislation. This is pretty rough on a man who has corlainly been one of the most enterprising colonists wo jjave had bore. Mr Alley has ouo cona'Jlalipn, howoyer, he is now selling his laud at £25 per aero, witjj buyers for lire auriferous porliou of tho estate at much higher prices.

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