We advise those who still have old stock in hand to hold on, for ; the price will certainly make an immense i advance. There is every probability that grain of all descriptions will this year reach. figures unknown for many years past, and those who rush their grain into fche market will nave reason afterwards to regret their precipitancy. Sales of new season's oats will probably open at 2s 6d, if not more. At the R. M. Court, Outram, on Saturday, Henry Wiles was charged with sly-grog selling. The information was laid under the Licensing Act, 1881. Mr Denniston, who appeared for the accused, contended that the offence, which was committed five months ago, could not be dealt with under the new Act, it then being inoperative, as the Licensing Districts were not proclaimed. Mr Carew could not see the force of the ob jection, and fined the defendant £10. Tne evidence certainly showed that the accused ' was guilty of the off nee, but we are sur prised that Mr Carew, of whose legal acumeu we have a high opinion, should not have per ceived* that Mr Dennistjn's position was ' wholly uniss liable. It certainly is one of ! the many inconsistencies aud incongruities of this well-meaning Act that it should first fix a date for coming iuto operation, and after -1 wards nullify that provision in a subsequent; 1 section ; but such is the case, aud Magistrates should administer accordingly. It would appear from the decision recently ; given upon some of the law points involved in the Wakanui election petition case that ; Registration Officers are the supreme electoral arbiters of the colony. At least such is the opinion of tho • Lyttelton Times.' which says the law has been interpreted to mean that any persons whose named are upon the electoral roll at the time the writs are issued are entitled to vote, even if they are actually disqualified by the Act. Our contemporary is also of opinion that even plural voting becomes possible if a man can get his name placed on more than one roll. 