MISCELLANEOUS.

Inangahua Times, Volume V, Issue 5, 24 July 1878, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS.

' Ao Ashburton last week a man. named Tlohbory was compelled 1 to trarel 200 miles to answer a summons, at the instance of tho local Road Board, which claimed S$ for vatca, booaoso h» happened to have boon flomoone's workl^ tenant for a brief periods When Uw oaso waa called on tho Court ruled that Tichbory could not be hold liableon. account of his having boon a wookty tenant, and when ho asked 1 for hi* expenses, as ho had oomo a huodrcd miles to answer the summons, hewas mot with tho preposterous reply that ho ought to have aicertainodl for himself a* to whothor or not he- bad been legally plaood on the rolll aod haro aoted accordingly. Bmilio Haskision alias Rasmtwon,. who got fourteon years for garotting in Christohnroh, is perhaps ono of tho most notorious criminals in the Island. He has been known to tho police for over thir-

> teen years, and during that period has beeo nearly all his time m gaol, or at large charged with some offence. At Hokitika, in July 1806, ho received • •entenco for obtainjng money under false pretences ; Hokitika, May 1867, burglary received tiro year* j Hokitika, January 1869. tixyeani fbr.larcony frdro « dwelling. Mid dwdtin* boinfc th« gaoler** r«»« , denoo, which he-bnofce into' and rofcbed ; subsequently, he eteqadl from Hokitika GaoJ, fot which be* feeoived twelve month*, and whilo illegally at large committed * larceny, far which ho wcmy<M » month* tiioc* that time the reoord ahow» that he ha« been convicted) in Otago, i where for stealing from a dwelling ' he received- three yea» hard laborJudge Jobnatone in pasting aenteooe remarked s— Yon hare choaen, to adopt ovina* at your profession and i baiinea*, tad now I ahrfl efertamly d«ota , U »j4«ty to-.nake it impoasiblc for yoa i to commit any offence against aoeiety for i aome ti»a*ta com* If you had /been oonvioted under tha higher indictment T i possibly might have sarad yoa from the woMt punishment— p«nal BeYritude for life— on the ground that when yoa had an oppoctonity yotf. did hot «how< ranch contempt for human life and did not do any permanent injury to- tha^-m«n» But [ aa yoa hare been, tried for an ofibno* which the law doea not dsenb to groaa, I do deem it my dttty to- pits' upon you tha heayieit aentenoe allowed— the aent<tnde of fourteen, yeara— and I dotrmttbat yon. will diioofor before that time that tha proßreat of aootety hare hati enabled at to carry oat oar punishment in a tnuoh more effeotire manner than haa hithortobeen tha caae." Raferwhg to aome remarki made by that notorioaa blunderer, the New Zt>K* Under, the Napier Telegraph aaya— • We aak what can it matter ■ whother theTelegraph waa a morning or erening journal P The principle ia the ttflw. W* are aware that if the Telegraph had •apportedtiie G<ey GbrernnuMt it would! have obtained^ the contract. The Tolo« graph' wai the low«it tenderer. It had by far a larger circulation than tho IlawkeVßay Herald, and morepror, held the contract the previoua year. It waa ,aa groat • piece of favoritism aa evitr ditgraoed a Govemmcnt, whatever the ,Gr<«y TTellngtoni hireling* Preia may' say to the contrary.' For some time back (says the AH the passenger carriages on the railway between i Melbonrne and Willi»msWwn haVebeen runnifig with doors unlocked,- an an ex« poriment. to be generally adopted on all' the Government lines if found safe and' ecrenießt,, It seems, however, th*t tJi«' privilege baa benn grossly aboaed by on»< •cnipulont pMMdgera who tri»Toll<»H in fir»t.ola»s oarriagfta with lecond-oUw tickr««, and; worse, that marly travelled in* ditrtminately in both elands without nny^ tirkf ta. Several penwn* guilty of eitheriabme were discovered yestoMay. *ni thi»v are to be prosecuted for the oSVnca, jThn doora w^re looked y<»«terd«y morni ing to the attontijtm'ftnt of the pnssone^n I until they und*f*tood the oanirt. Tho ,old'«»yst«m of lookdddoors will be honoo- ; forhh oontinmdl ' The following special' telogram appoar ,in the Wflllinctniv Post of the 12th injdtftnt: — Tlio onnio of the native rising in Now Caledonia wna thai sev#rnl chieft. were seized as hrtstai^es far tho delivery 'of the murderers of a aettlfer nanvviChono and his family. Tho natives ro< • in ths» night, murd&rfd the guard, am! resoued' tho chiefs* and devastated the jrtlomcnt. Affairs are in a vory critical ninir, us thn military foroe in the inland it insufficient. Unless at«Utan.cs is iramodiAfely irtidercdi by Franca, it is probablo that Inland ! will be petitioned- to annox thfl inland. — 'The Sappho hringa four dd«titur«i men from- New Gninr a> They dony 1 that p«y- • able gold has been dinoorored, ami Ho weather irapfdfli the. operstionn" of xhnproipecton. Game i* plentiful, «n>i" »l\» Natiws* friend ly, A 'Russian tr*VAll/»r. who has Mturn#d from New f)i»m<M, refuses to give any information " afboitt th t country. Tl is believed that his )>arjr . i«, settled where the heav-y gold' wi« reoontly obtainesl.