SALVATIONISTS’ PROCESSIONS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1412, 10 May 1886, Page 3

SALVATIONISTS’ PROCESSIONS.

The English Judges have decided that it .is ultra vires, unreasonable, and repugnant to the general laws of the land for civic authorities to attempt to limit by municipal legislation the natural privileges of the Queen’s law-abiding subjects. The authorities of Croydon, like those of Napier, passed a by-law, aimed specially at the Salvationists, prohibiting them from using instrumental music in the streets on Sundays. The Salvationists defied the municipal authorities in both cases. Police Court proceedings resulted, and in both cases the offenders were convicted and fined. The Napier Salvationists’ appe#l is f till under the consideration of Mr-Justice Richmond, ■who will most probably be guided by the dicta of Judges Hawkins and Mathew in the Croydon appeal. These Judges held that the by-law was i‘ most unreasonable and cruelly oppressive, and therefore could not be enforced.” Salvationists’ and other bands could now play on Sundays to their hearts’ content •

LEGAL INCOMES IN INGLA'D «. The acceptance of six* L-.nl (Jnivci x iL>rshijj by .Mr farrer Hera h 1 invo ves a considerable pernniaiy s.oriti o, The ’ salary L LtO.OOO a-ycar, a d it is uiuiorj stand that of late vests Sir Farrar Heri schei’a jirofeesl nal receipts havo more i nearly roadie i L 20.000. Bui there are conipctrnlions, since thn Lord Chancellor | receives far life a u> ni'n p<‘ii<>,aii j Lo.Oi 0 ajnar. The mast, uonapi. ions ins'ati' "I saerui.-ine ju<iii«i,ary iinhiion for . ilieial lani-' is to he i>■ u ■ >t in ill ceo i of S.| Unlace l.'avey. Mr Har.y has for in.iuv vans hr.fii teed'it};; .*•) it ’'H' "t , ,tons'.lor;, 1. y ovei 1,20,(D0 '.s j SdicOn: General ho get-' Lti.OOo am! s knighthood, with no retiring pension. There are fees which prooabiy bring the olli ial income up to L 9,000 a-yoar. Still, a man who has for a 0110 time been

earning, according- to some accounts, L30,0C0 tv-year, may think himself privilodged to accept a fourth of that sal-ry. Mr Davey is a moat indefatigable worker. One of his associates says that ho thinks nothing, tfhon in an important case, of working light oil twenty four houis at a stretch without taking sleep Sir Richard Webster, the Attorney General in the late Conservative Government, is also a tremendous worker, keeping his lamp burning far into the night when ho has any special case on. Sir Richard Webster attributes his immunity from illtuis, in spite of his tegular condition o' overwork, to the fact that he is a strict teetotaller.—Exchange