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Ashburton Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 1030, 24 August 1883, Page 3

. A hundred Hungarian counties and boroughs hare sent addresses to M. Kossuth on the occasion of his eightieth birthday. , Dr Toung, the celebrated manufacturing chemist, and friend of Livingstone, has died at his residence, near Glasgow, aged 70. The historical Cock Tavern in Fleet street, London, which claims to date from the reign of Charles 1., was submitted for sale the other day. At various points on the Japanese Coast fortifications are being put up, particularly at places accessible to attack in the event of a war with China.

There are 2,830,000 acres of bog in Ireland, of which 1,264,000 acres are mountain bog, suitable for pasture, and 1,676,000 acres flat bog, available for fuel.,

Ice creams are sold for consumption in America in paper boxes and pails decorated with suitable designs and holding from a half pint to a couple of quarts. The Free Church of Scotland General Assembly has resolved by 390 to 259, in favor of allowing congregations to use instrumental music in public worship. Manitoba has entered a protest against the action of the Dominion Government seeking for an increase in the duty on agricultural implements from States.

The Massachusetts House of Assembly has just refused to pass a resolution for an amendment to the Constitution so that women may be appointed Justices of the Peace and notaries public. Liord R. Churchill has finally abandoned his intention of endeavoring this session to move a resolution that would disqualify Mr Bradlaugh from taking his seat in a new Parliament under exceptional restrictions with respect to the oath. t

A singular ’marriage took place at the village church of Wold, Northamptonshire. The bride, who is thirty, four i years of age, has been bedridden for the past fifteen years, and had to be carried mto the church on a chair. The bridegroom is sixty-five years of age.. New York city has 2,000 rag-pickers, whose collections are valued at £IOO,OOO per year, while the hand-carts engaged in the same business gather £600,000 worth. The entire rag trade of the country reaches about £6,000,000 annually. A company of men, all of whom are 6ft or over in height, have founded a town in Montana, which they have named Giantville. lots in this town will bo sold only to men six feet or more in height, who have wives sft. Sin. at least in stature. The Pope has directed copies of a re- ' print of all the Papal letters on Ireland during the present Pontificate, to be sent to all the English-speaking bishops of Europe, America, and Australia. It is

regarded as an important re-assertion of the consistent teaching of the Holy See.' A remarkable instance of the ingenuity developed by necessity is afforded by a convict in a Louisiana prison, who made a saw but of the buckle on his trousers and constructed a key from a splinter of Wood; with which he unlocked the chain that bound him to the floor. The Law Times remarks that the force

of the blow dealt by the Married Women’s Property Act 1882, has received its best illustration in the decision of Mr Justice Obitty on the 18th inst in “jB« March’s

WilL” A testatrix, who died in the year JSB3, by her will, made in the year 1880, gave all her property to a husband and wife and third person. His lordship held that having regard to the new Act, which,, since the decision of the late Master of the Rolls in “ Hasluck v. Pedley,” must be held to apply to an antedated will, the - proper construction to be put upon such a gift was, that it was a joint tenancy

among three persons. Previously to the passing of the Act the legal rule was, as is. well known, that the husband and wife . > took only a moiety, because they were by , , the common law but one persoq. With- ■ ; ottfr venturing to dispute the wisdom of the new enactment, we would submit that '" ‘ it* applicability to the construction of a will is open to question. A doubt as to ■' ’ .the 1 intention of a testator cannot be solved by referring to. Acts of Parliament;

hut when the intention of the testator has ), heen arrived at; then and then only is the jkct of 1 arliament applicable. Takinf w,*.... Able view, and applying the Harriet ~ Women's Property Act 1882, to the case -of a gift to a man and his wife and a third ' .person,, whilst the husband and wife ; still take a moiety only, the wife woold, by virtue of the recent Act, take lor her separate use * half share of the fooictf*