A proclamation in the New Zealand Go vernment "Gazette" contains the following regulation respecting the fees to be paid by Building Societies to ReA'ising Barristers : — '' Every Society Avhose rules or any amend ments thereof shall be certified to by the Revising Barrister, appointed under the said Act, shall pay to such Revising Barrister a fee of five pounds five shillings : Provided always that the said Revising Barrister shall be entitled to no further fee in respect of any amendment of any rules he may certify to, if one fee has already been paid within the period of three years next before the giving of such certificate."

We understand that Mr Duke, of New ton, lias instructed solicitors to enter legal proceedings under the following circum stances : While Mr Duke was absent at Pukekohe, his son, a minor, Avas charged with assault, and bound over to keep the peace. Before his father could be commu nicated with to find the necessary bail, £10, the youth Avas sent to Mount Eden, and there, it is alleged, was put to hard labour. The grounds of action are, that the convic tion in the first instance was bad, and the subsequent course pursued by the gaoler, in dressing the youth in prison-clothes, and putting him out into the work-yard with other piisoners, was illegal. For this, damages are claimed.
