The Government (says the Dune din Globe I have decided to spend a sum of £IB,OOO in the construction of tracks and roads to open up the country. The expen diture will be chiefly in the North Island.
We (Evening Star) understand that the Government intend to appoint two ac credited representatives of Labor in each centre, to the commission of the peace when the next batch of honorary magistrates are appointed.
At Dunedin on 3rd inst., Mr Carew, R.M., gave judgment in a case in which a butcher who goes round with a cart was charged with a breach of the Roslyn borough by-laws. In dismissing the case ,he said he thought he should be going beyond any de cided case if he held that the term " hawker" included tradesmen who, by invitation, call for, receive, and at the same time supply daily orders for articles of food which he thought was defendant's position.
