MISCELLANEOUS.
♦ The Postmaster' General of New South Wales has made arrangements for the introduction of stamped registered letter envelopes, which will be sold to the public at 4d. Lottie Wilnoott has been summoned to appear at the Court at Newcastle, for lecturing on the forbidden fruit on a Sunday nigbt. The case excited great interest. The same lecture was delivered at Sydney without any interference. The charge was dismissed after a prolonged hearing and much discussion. The North German Gazette, in an article on British politics, expressed the opinion that in the next elections in Great Britain the Liberals will pay dearly for leaguing with the Home Rulers. Five professional roughs, ringleaders and organisers of the bread riots in Cork, have been sentenced to six weeks in gaol. Director Gould, of the National Observatory nt Cardona, Argentine Bepub lie, telegraphs that a greit comet is pass, ing in a northern direction. While that ' unfortunate nobleman " whom the bulk of the world persists in calling Thomas Castro, \* still 'languishing in Dartmoor.' awaiting the argu» merits on the writ of error which the Attorney-General has kindly granted to his friends, so that they may ask the judges to determine whether his two sentences ought not to have been t.ne — another very remarkable case which is i likely to involve some extraordinary questions as to the proner heir to some large estates is ripening for trial. Almost the whole of that large riveside metropolitan parish called Deptford belongs to a Mr William John Evelyn, a lineal descendant of the man who wrote the famous diary. He has other considerable estates, but this Deptford property was managed fcr him by a Mr Liardet, who, as the property is within the Par* liamentary borough of Greenwich, once set himself up es a candidate in opposition to Mr Gladstone, when that right hon. genMeman was elected six or seven years ago. Some disputes took place between the owner and the agent, which resulted in Mr Liardet being discharged from his office about fifteen months ago. Then for the first time Mr Liardet said that the present Mr Evelyn was wrongfully in possession, of the property, as his
fa her was an illeiiitimate child, and this i»e publicly repeated on many occasions. So Mr Evelyn now seeks the aid of the i Court of Chancery to do two things — first to silence Mr Liardet, and next to enable him Io proye his own legitimate birth and rightful possession or the property. Mr Justin Fryj ] 10weFeri who is dealing with the suit, is of opinion that Mr Eveyn wants to go too fast. He iias restrained Mr L.ar.iet, bnt has ordered that the other question shall be postponed until it is seen whether an? action is taken by the Lady Evelyn whom Mr Liardet bad sou»ht to make out was entitled to the property. Upon a modest g^are stone in Vmcen' nps cemetery appear. 5 ? the |>lnintive legend, ' His neighbor played the cornet.' "he Jennings' testimonial and banquet, on the closing of the Exhibition, promises to be a brilliant success. A shocking tragedy occurred at Wattle Fiat, near Bathurst (New Fouth Wales.) A man named Poulson, s farmer, killed his daughter, aged twelve. By a miscalculation by the clerk of the totalisator at the racecourse, Forlury. says the Times, double the proper amount was paid on the sweep. Only one gentleman — a Mr D >uglas— wfio have receive! £32 as the result of the error, acted honourably in the matter. He came to the proprietors and returned £16 upon hearing of the mistake, A painful incident is recorded in con» nection with the murder in Dunedin. Mis Aitcheson, the mother of Mrs Grant, was on Monday on her way down from Christctiurch in the train to visit her daughter, being unconscious of the deplorable event. The shock to her feelIng* may be imagined, when on reaching Palmerston she learned the truth b? hearing a stranger reading from one of the newspapers an account of tbe murder.
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Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 26 March 1880, Page 2
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668MISCELLANEOUS. Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 26 March 1880, Page 2
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