missioner of Police, and that harshness and' undue severity have been exercised in dismissing an officer who has been sufficiently and sorely punished by a Court of Justice for an assault that really amounted to an act of self-defence." 1 ■ Apetition'fromresidentsandownersof property in and about Wellington, Kaiwarra, Johnson 'ville.Porirua, Ohariu, &c, has been presented to Parliament by Mr J. G. Wilson, the mem '. ber for Foxton. The petitioners ask that the .Kaiwarra tailgate may b» abolished, for the • following reasons :—" That the tolls levied at the toll-bar are unjust impositions, and ought •not to be levied, because they press upon your -petitioners and others residing in their neigh borhood more hardly than upon other parts of the community, and greatly retard, the progress and development of the country districts ; that the tolls, levied at the said toll-bar press with undue severity on farmers, dairymen, firewood sellers, and others from the country who must pass through the toll-bar to sell their produce.; that a memorial, signed by 150 of your peti tioners, was presented to the County Council -for'the abolition of the said Kaiwarra toll-bar as unjust in its operation, which by resolution of the said County Council was not enter tained." ': : -'

' frfae ordinary -fortnightly meeting of the Waste Lands Board was held on July 27. Present—Messrs J. G. Holdsworth (Chair man and, Commissioner), H. Bunny, W. W. Taylor,'and G. Beetham. The Chairman re ported that no lands had 1 been sold since the previous meeting. A letter was received from the Wanganui Harbor Board asking that the thirty-four unsold sections of land in the Harbor Board's endowment block might be thrown open for sale on deferred payment. It was resolved that the further consideration of the request be postponed for a fortnight, and that in the meantime inquiries be made as to the. extent and description of road-making within the block. A request from J.Taylor apd J. M. Le Elleh to transfer their license to occupy Bection 22 Mangahao Block to H. and A. W. Sedcole, was granted. A report was received from the Chief Surveyor giving par ticulars of field work completed since the last monthly report. Tha following are the details : Wanganui Harbor Board Endowment, 12,741 acres ; South Mauriceville, 685 acres ; Tokomaru Block, 4830 acres ;. 