MISCELLANEOUS.

Inangahua Times, Volume XI, Issue 1703, 12 May 1886, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS.

. • » According to all reports the Kimberley goldfield, in West Australia, promises to be the biggest thing of the times. The gold is said to be plentiful and near the surface, and prospects are discerned of a lasting field. The place, however, is somewhat inaccessible, 'being situated at a distance of 370 miles from Cambridge Gulf, and old diggers recommend that those who intend to go there to provide them* i selves With six months' provisions and horses, or plenty of money. Caution, therefore, seems advisable in. considering the matter, West Australia, moreover, in its present condition affords few other attractions to immigrants.

A bold robber wjh perpetrated at the residence of Mr Nipper, in East Melbourne, on the evening of tbe 19th iF r^L ? e had thai da / obtained £1,000 from tbe Hot. James Munro, being part of the purchase money of some property, and at eight o'clock placed tbe money ie a drawer in his bedroom. On returning at midniahl he found that the whole of the money had been stolen. A reward of £200 led to the prompt arrest of one of Mr Nipper's servants. A man known as " Tom tbe Oook " in Bonrke (New South Wales), it r+ ported to have come into tbe possession of the title and estates of the Earl of Eglinton. He bas been supplied with ; money, and has gone to Melbourne to sco solicitors, wbo are sore that he is the right man. He is married, »ud has been cooking for shearers on Boomery station. Duriug the cross-examination of the prosecutrix in the ease of an alleged capial assault, beard in the Water Police Court st Sydney recently it transpired that she had asked the father of the accused for £2000 to compromise the roa.ter, and of this amount £1000 was to be divided between the detectives who had charge of |he case* Docnme iUry evidence in proof of this was put in, and the Bench held that the application of the proseeutrtx for a sum of money to compvomtse the matter had placed her out of Court Mr Holt, of the Bank of New Zealand in Sydney, has been committed for trial for stealing a cheque for £1500, which be bad paid in to bi» credifc iuto another bank; and he is under remand npon a second charge of falsifying an entry in the bank ledger, wherehy aMr Ohisholm was shown to have overdrawn his aewxmt by £3250, whereas in truth he had done no such thing. The secretary of the Toung Hen's Christian; Association in Adelaide (Mr Walker) bas emhessled £1800, and is to b» prosecuted ; and the list of defaulter* in Adelaide is swelled by tl» arrival from Europe, hi custody, of Mr Godfrey Rgremont, wbtf n accused of making away with buildiug society funds to the tune of L6OOO. The case of Walker has eioited much attention in Adelaide. He had been secretary to the V.M.C.A for many years, and was wifely known and much respected. Hi* salary was £300 a year, and the reason of his embossling appears to have been an inability to make ends meet on that salary. Ho has a wife and children, and bis lather is a respected elegy van in Adelaide, who bas been 50 years in the ministry. Walker confessed iis defalcations, bat just as they were on the point of being discovered. A short time ago Melbourne ' Putteh ' published a paragraph in which, referring to the casf of a postal clerk named B» owne, of whom it had been said in ParliajiMvt tfaa a* «* twWtli.n, , bnt sit on his office stool and dnrw hsf salary, it suggested that as "every man has his use," he should stand outside the General Post Office in Melbonre and hold out his tongue for the people to wet stamps on. Over the letterpress was a cartoon representing Browne in that capacity. He brought an action against the paper for libel, and tbe trial took place before County Court Judge Casey, the jury finding for tbe paper. The Supreme Court, however ordered a new trial before a Judge of that Court, without a jury, on the ground oC Judge Casey's misdirection. The second trial took place before Mr Justice Holyroyd, who, in the course of his judgment, said : — v Possibly, a* has now been proved, the plaintiff deserved no blame Cor this self-irapnted incapacity, which wss really failing eyesight The author of the libel not only failed to inquire whether the plaintiS deserved blame at all, but held him up te derision as a * creature unfitted for any employment whatever. The comment is not merely a piece of coarse pleasantry ; it is a contemptuous and inputting caricature, aggravated by a sarcastic explanation, , and can bear no meaning bat that the plaintiff is a degraded doll That man must have fallen very low of whom it is not an outrage to publish that he is fit only to dangle out bis tongue for other people to wet stamps on." The Judge awarded the plaintiff £900 damages. "Kbating's Cocoa Loznresss cum Coughs, Asthma, Brmchitis. Medical testimony states that n > other medicine is so effectual in the cure if these dangerous maladies. One Lozenge alone gives ea*e, one "or two at bedtime ensures rest. Fur relieving difficulty of breathing they are invaluable. They contain no opium nor any violent drag. Sold by all Chemist*, in Tins* Is. ljd. and &.M. each.