THE BOROUGH COUNCILLORS'

INDIGNATION MEETING AT PALMERSTON. (Pfiß UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Palmerston North, September 5. A crowded indignation meeting was held last night to denounce the clauses of the Municipal Corporations Acfc, under whioh a councillor ia liable to penalties for supplying goods to a Borough Council in the ordinary way of trade, as decided by the R.M. in the case _of Graff v. Park on Thursday, when defendant was fined £50. Resolutions were unanimously carried suggesting the necessity of amendments in the Act, and arranging to bring the matter under the notice of the Legislature this session.
iag in the South. Things.&re said to be very dull in Otago, possibly this fresh supply of spirits may make them look less dispiriting, for the time at ail events, but I think a place that can sp^nd as much on alcohol as New Zealand generally, and Otago in particular, » cannot be so very hard up. The Napier folk« don't do thiuga by halves, as I see they have subscribed no less than £548 13s towards the prize fuudsof the Fire Brigades Demonstration, to be held there a few months hence. At a Fire Brigade banquet lately, a bashful youne; branchnian was called upon to propose the toast of "The Ladies," which he did, by saying, " Chaps, here's to'tho gels, who raise the only flames we can't put oub !" '

PARLIAMENT.
THE GRAFF v. PARK PROSECUTION.
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