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Inangahua Times, Volume VII, Issue 1075, 17 April 1882, Page 2

We are informed that Mr Weston, M.H.R., has addressed the Colonial Treasurer, urging the necessity there is for establishing a Stamp Office,. and appointing a deputy-commissioner in Reefton. The present disturbed* condition of political affairs will, however, no doubt prevent attention to the matter just at present. „..'. sA|%fl» named Augustus Vaugh|n, a tailor by trade, who formerly acted as informer in some sly grog-selling charges here which were dismissed, died in the hospital on Friday last. ''Hapwas fifty-four years of age, and leaves a wife and family, but, we understand, they are in no way dependent on him. His funeral took place on Saturday. His death was occasioned through general debility. Standard weights and measures have been fprwardetl to the Sergeant of the district in order that tradesmen and others may compare their weights, if they think fit. Strange to say there is no Inspector of Weights and Measures appointed for the district, or, If there be such an individual, he takes care not to show himself or discharge his duties. A notice in another oolunin minds shareholders in the Wide- Awake ■* Company, that their transfers must be lodged with Mr Hindmarsh, secretary, this week. We would wish to draw public attention to the meeting announced for this evening, and, sincerely Jjojmb ths a full dance will be present at the hour announced. We have fully expressed ourselves in another column, A fine old gentleman who died in London some eight years, ago made a provision in his will to bequeath every grandchild " alive at the time of his decease " a certain sum, to be invested in the Three per Cents, and to be handed over to such grandchild, with accumulated interest, on the attainment of the : age of twenty-one. Now, amongst the sons was one married in Melbourne, whose first child was born about four months after the grandfather's death. He (the Melbourne father) thought, as most of us would, that his child had no interest in that will. But it appears that . the child takes his share. By the mail just arrived he is informed that the bequest is available, with eight years accumu^aWd int^t, and JlJtii Would hate' been so for any grandmul born within nine months of the testator's death. This (says "Ogles'* irt^the Australasian) is a relic, I believe, of some old Norman law, which thus dates life back, and the principle of which is expressed in a NormanFrench law term — " Vivant en ventre vivant toujours." Opinions differ as to what constitutes a reasonable cause of absence from school wheq, the compulsory clauses of the Eduisation Act.are in force. In orie i^sfen^a in the Wellington district, the "cause of non-attendance at school," on the part of a boy aged 7, was stated by the father to be that " He had to obtain beer for his grandmother and to nurse the baby." The R.M. at Christchurch gave judgement in a case against the trustees of St. Paul's Presbyterian . Church for holding an entertainment in the building, the same not being licensed for the purpose. The Municipal Corporation Act, under section 393 of which the charge was laid was upheld, and a fine of 5s and costs was inflicted, the Magistrate regarding it as a test case. Sericulture is being developed at the Thames in earnest. A company has been formed for the promotion of silk, and a parcel of four acres of land has been secured for the growth of the mulberry tree. The. computations made by the company are — 400 trees per acre, yielding leaves enough to produce 25001bs of cocoons, or 2001bs raw silk, worth £300. In the last letter the Home correspondent of the Otago Daily times writes : — I notice some of our Edinburgh butchers are selling meat which they state, on large printed placards attached to the carcases, has been imported from Australian oxen. I have not tasted this meat, nor have I made inquiry as to the degree of favour with which it is received by the public, but I am bound to confess that its appearance is anything but-attractive. Ah action has been commenced in the Supreme Court at Invercargill in which the plaintiff claims to recover from a bank carrying on business there moneys which his wife had paid into the bank in her own. name, and afterwards withdrew from the bank without her husband's authority. The question will be raised whether a wife who has deposited money in her own name can withdraw it without her husband's consent, so as to relieve the bank from liability. .« t : A Queensland * draper, ' with a pretty wife and and two lovely daughters, engaged a Chinese gardener, who, when he had finished picking slugs off tlip cabbages for the day, used to rig himself out in great style, and at length came to be, by reason o£ his industry and elegance, quite the talk of the town. One day however, he kissed the youngest daughter. The girl told her Pa, who after playing a fantasia on John with a garden rake,

booted him off the premises. The discharged Celestial then took out a summons, bat the moflier and eldest daughter did their utmost to get the old man to settle j the matter. In vain, however, So insulted her. Tlits enraged the parent all the more, of cdursfe, and, anyhow, at length the day came round when the summons was returnable. The case went on, and the mother was called into the box. But before she oould begin to sob out her evidence, John said — ' What for you glumbe], . hey. ZMe kissee you allee same girlee. Hy-ya. • In the yew 1788 there were only 29 , sheep in Australia. At the present time there are no fewer than 62,000,000. The Napier Telegraph shows good cause j why fever and kindred diseases are rife in that townlhij> during the summer months. "A resident in town the other day dug a hole in the backyard of his premises, in order to bury Borne rubbish. Living on the low level, he had not dug down more than a few feet before he came upon the the shingle, the quality of which so pleased him that he opened up a miniature quarry, and gave the whole of his backyard a thick covering of the gravel. The next day the heat of the sun drew forth from this seemingly nice looking clean shingle such a horrible y stench that no one con^Ljgo hatto vti£ yard. Further infp|rajjf||L showecFthat the subsoil from jfc«Eaithy shingle had been dug was thoroughly permeated with the sewage of the adjacent sections. It is upon similar shingle that the whole of Napier on the low level is built." We may add that on such subsoil the whole of Reefton is located. Tho Rev. T. S. Forsaith is about to leave for England, and a valedictory meeting was held at (New South Wales), at which the Rev. J. T. Warlow Davies, M. A. v presided. Mr Forsaith (sayß the .Sydney Herald) goes via New Zealand. This gentleman between twenty and thirty years ago, when known as "Tom Forsaith," took a prominent part in New Zealand politics, and in 1854 was a member of a Ministry for two days — giving it the sobriquet of the "clean shirt Minfctry." i 1 ; r In the chapels of tftb diocese of Dublin lately a pastoral letter was read from Archbishop MacCabe, in the concluding paragraphs of which he says: — Our afflicted people Btand in great need of grace from God and; wise counsel from those in whom they trust. Centuries of wrongs have done much to crush their energies and almost to extinguish their last ray of hope, and, in the condition of almost reckless desperation to which bad laws reduced them, they were — and it is hard to wonder at it — prepared to grasp at any remedy which promised even an alleviation of their woes. The secret conspirator was never slow to avail himself "of his opportunity in the illegal societies, .which resulted in midnight atrocities, and which worked out their mission by sending their dupes to lifelong slavery or death itself. But before the dissolution of these societies the hidden and unscrupulous leaders gathered the spoils of their iniquity Hby trafficking in the blood of their deluded victims. The .monster has again raised his head antongst us, and the voice of; waning must4bife iron t|b %ihfsdjj guar^tou # the f»C if that fold if Wbe saved from further ravages. Much has been already done to redress the longstanding wrongs of our people. Time, and the power of honest public opinion, will gradually but surely destroy the last vestige of unjust laws. Meanwhile, we must pray earnestly to God that our people may not listen to the open or secret abettors of violence or injustice, or to the counsellors of extravagant expectations; bufcthaty being/'.wjse with sobriety," they may earn from the Almighty Lord of Justice the protection of His divine providence by which our dear country may once .more become the joyful mother of countless happy and contented children.