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Dunstan Times, Issue 1230, 25 September 1885, Page 2

Mr James Knox, wardsman of the Duns stan District Hospital, died at the hospital yesterday, after an illness of only 12 days, of inflammation of the membrane of the brain and erysipelas. The funeral will leave the hospital for the Clyde cemetery on Sunday afternoon at 3 p.m.

Castner’s Monthly Family Journal for September is to hand, and is welcome. The journal to farmers, orchardists, gardeners, professional and amateur, would be most useful, it containing a fund o ? information gathered from the latest experiences, and is worthy of a place in every country household. The pages contain a deal of interesting good readaale matter.

To day will be held the Clyde Spring Races on the Dunstan Course. By the large number of entries for each event the meeting promises to he fairly successful. Mr Hugh Crossan of Bald Hill Plat, has charge of the refreshment apartment.

Wo arn requested to state that there will bo practice uu the CL'de Cricket ground to morrow afternoon at 2.30, All are invited.

An extraordinary murder took place in a

bar-room at Charlton, in Victo ia, on the 16th. A man. whose name is unknown, was sitting on a form in the bar of the Golden Fleece Hotel, when another man, Edward Hunter, known as “ the fiddler,” came in, and said, “ Where is my money ?'J The man replied, “I have got no money,” whereupon Hauler went out, and returned with a sheath knife, which he plunged into the breast of the stranger, who died in fifteen minutes. -Hunter, who expressed a hope that he had killed the man has been arrested.

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The San Francisco correspondent of the Auckland ‘Herald’ says “ 1 have never known this city to be in such a bankrupt condition as it is. We are all ladies and gentlemen of elegant leisure, waiting for something to ‘turn up.’ Everything is cheap—labour, fruit, and sugar at minimum prices. Everyone holds to his nr her halfdollar, and no one thinks of paying their bills, simply because they can’t. It is funny, actually. If a collector comes to the door, ho says, “ Here is a bill, ’Spore you’ve not money 1 I can’t collect a cent,” and goes away with a broad grin on his face. Scores of young men walk about town with their hands in their pocke.s, pitiful to see. If a situation appears in the advertising columns of the paper, even at the low rate of L 5 per month, a hundred applications are received from boys, and even men of thirty years.”

MrPirata, the Southern Maori member, distinguished himself early this morning (says Wednesday’s Evening Post) by making the tirat speech in English ever made in the House by a .uuoii member. It was short ami to the point. The question under consideration was the striking out of the vote of LIOO for the chairman of Waste L mds Committee, and Parata had voted for the omission of he item. He had previously voted for the retention of a similar sum for the chairman of the Goldfields Committee, A gioi deal ha 1 be. n said about the way members had chopped about in the various divisions, and Parata felt called upon to explain his vote. There was no interpreter present, so he rose solus, amid loud clu era to address Mr Hamlin. “ 1 voted for Fyke” (chairman of the Goldfields Committee), said Pratt, “for him to get the money. You knock it off him, you knock it off the lot.’’ With gieat vigour, and alappmg his fist n idm table, “ You wait a bit,” continued he, when there was some interruption, and the way he said it produced roars of laughter. “I vote for all to get the money or else none.”

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A notable example official integrity was displayed the other day by Judge Laporte, of Pennsylvania, His son John unfortunately murdered a friend, Mr John Irvin, at a place Warrior’s Mark. After committing the 'murder Mr John Laporte proceeded to his father's house and candidly explained the somewhat awkward position in which he was placed. The Judge, although much distressed at the news,preserved his self-possession. ‘‘John,” he said, “ this is horrible. When I waa made a Judge I swore to obey the Constitution and enforce the laws of the Common, wealth, and I cannot do otherwise than surrender yon up to the officers. If youare justifiable in this thing, as. I believe yov are, you will he cleared and our name vindicated ; but if not, the daw must take its course.” Having thus delivered himself, the Jndge immediately harnessed bis horse and drove his son'to the nearest railway station, where they entered the first train, and arrived at Huntingdon, when young Laporte was aurrenderei to the sheriff. By this noble act Judge Laporte 1 has earned univessal approbation, and is, it is stated, regarded as “ a second Lucius , Junius Brutus."