A doputjitlou from the Otn#o i'rotsotioti League waited upon Sir Julius Yogel yesterday to requnst him to deliver mi ndilrcus while in Uimcdin. .Sir Julius i\grc.t:d to address a public meeting, but remarked that ho wan not sure ho could go tho length of the Protection League. Towards the close of tho interview Mr Neil (herbalist) suggested that if a protective duty were placed on patent medicines the'makers of

them would establish factories here and so in crease the population. Mr Frnser remarked soltu voee that considering the nature of patent medicines generally, whatever their niuuui'ao-

ire might do, extensive consumption

would very likely decrease the population. Sir Julius, in reply to Mr Neil, said that the virtue of patent medicines depended entirely upon the amount of faith possessed. The makers of those medicines, he observed, all pretended that they had some secret that no one else could possibly

discover; and he was not sure that duties would cause them to start nmunf actories here, but he had no doubt whatever that if patent medi cines weru mado hero and advertised sufficiently) the people would be induced to consume them. At the I'almerston R.JI. Oourt yesterday, be fore Mr H. W. Robiuson, R.M., Thomas Beadle was charged on tlio information of Sergeant Gonn with placing a net across tho jShag river within half a mile of its mouth. When caught by the sergeant the defendant said he was fish-

ing for mullet. After hearing the evidence his Worship administered a warning to defendant

and fined him in tho sum o£ 40d, the lowest penalty provided by the new regulations under which tho information was laid. As it was the first case brounht under the regulations the magistrate was inclined to take a lenient view of

the case, the minimum penalty being fixed at £2 and the maximum at £50 under the act.
