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MISCELLANEOUS and Hawksford, Law of Gambling, 1913 ; Fitzgibbon and Johnston, Law of Local Government in Ireland, 1899 ; Australian and New Zealand Law List, 1959; Ontario Mining Court Cases, Vol. Ill—1918-1960, ed. D. G. Horan ; Commission of Inquiry into the Duties, Salaries and Emoluments of the Officers, Clerks and Ministers of Justice in Temporal and Ecclesiastical Courts in Ireland, 7 Vols., 21 Reports, 1816-1831 ; Report of Fry Royal Commission of Inquiry on Trinity College, Dublin, 1907. COUNCIL OF EUROPE, STRASBOURG— Council of Europe News, 1951-1960, bound together; 18 European Conventions, bound together (1949-1960) ; Council of Europe Orders of the Day, 195 8-60 ; Research (Quarterly), Nos. 55-59 (1960) ; Forward in Europe (1959-60); Handbook of European Organisations, 1956; The European Conventions, 1956 ; Juvenile Delinquency in Post-War Europe, 1960. MISCELLANEOUS EXCHANGES—Edinburgh Uni versity, Calendar, 1960-61 ; Glasgow University, Calendar, 1960-61 ; Manchester University, Calendar, 1959-60 ; National University of Ireland, Calendar, 1960 ; International Law List, 1961 ; Dublin Uni versity (Trinity College), Calendar, 1960-61 ; Incorporated Law Society, Calendar, 1961 ; New South Wales Law Almanack, 1960 and 1961 ; Queen's University, Belfast, Calendar, 1960-61 ; Scottish Law List, 1960; University College Cork, Calendar, 1966-61; University College, Dublin, Calendar, 1960-61 ; University College, Galway, Calendar, 1960-61 ; University of Wales, Calendar, 1960-61. SUPPLEMENTARY LIST—Wilson and Kelly, Irish Income Tax, Third Supplement, 1960 ; Chronological Table of British Statutes, 1235-1959 ; Current Law Citator, 1947-1960; Current Law Yearbook, 1960; Halsbury, Laws of England, Simonds Edn., Third Cumulative Supplement, 1961 ; All England Law Reports, Index -and Noted Up, 1960. BUDGET STATEMENT DEATH DUTIES AND STAMP DUTIES - The Minister for Finance in his Budget Statement in Dail Eireanri on .April I9th, made the following announcements which will be of interest to solicitors. Death Duties on Small Estates - The present minimum rate is 3% applicable to estates between £5,000 and £7,500. The Minister proposes to re-introduce the rates of i%'and 2%. The new rate structure will be i% on estates from £5,000 to £6,000, 2% on estates from £6,000 to £7,000, 3% on estates from £7,000 to £8,000 and 4% as at present on-estates from £8,000 to £10,000. DONATIONS—Coldridge

lending P. money and supplying him with goods he could not recover under this head the sum of £373 IDS. for cash lent and goods supplied. BRIEF NOTES OF CASES (a) Tsakiroglou v. Noblee Thorl G.m.b.H.— The House of Lords has affirmed the decision of the Court of Appeal and held that, despite the closure of the Suez Canal, the contract in the case was not frustrated and that consequently the buyers were entitled to damages.—(See (1961) 2. All E.R. 179). (b) Plato Films Ltd. v. Speidel.—fhe House of Lords has affirmed the decision of the Court of Appeal (see GAZETTE, Vol. 54, page 54) and held that some paragraphs of the defence should be struck out as inadmissible and irrelevant.—(See (1961) i. All E.R. 876). (c) Attorney General (Garda Michael McGowan) v. Arthur Carville— 95 I.LT.R. (1961), 41, In this case the Supreme Court affirmed Davitt P. on 3oth April, 1959, and held that District Justice Lavery was entitled to dismiss on the merits a summons charging a defendant with driving a specified mechanically propelled vehicle without holding a driving licence on the ground that the onus was on the complainant to prove that the defendant was uninsured. (d) The State (John Cunningham) v. District Justice O'Flynn.— The judgment of the Supreme Court given by Mr. Justice O'Dalaigh, previously noted in the GAZETTE, Vol. 54, page 18) is now reported, in full at page 24 of the Irish Law Times Reports 1961, Vol. 95.—Members will recollect that this case dealt with the correct form of summons in the District Court. (e) Incorporated Law Society v. Richard G. Browne.— In this case, an auctioneer had filled in the blank spaces of a contract for sale, including the names of the owners of the property, the intending purchaser, a description of the property, the nature of the title thereto, that it was being sold with vacant possession, and the amount of the offer made and of the deposit paid. District Justice Burke in Galway District Court on 7th April, 1960, held that the auctioneer was an " unqualified person " within Section 3 (i) of the Solicitors Act, 1954, that he had performed a legal transaction specifically reserved to solicitors, fined him io/- and ordered him to pay £50 costs. The case is now reported in 95 I.L.T.R. (1961) at page 7. LIBRARY ACQUISITIONS B._DONATIONS AND EXCHANGES CANADIAN EMBASSY, DUBLIN— Canada Law Reports 1959 and 1960. . .