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Evening Post, Issue 94, 29 May 1865, Page 3

Notice is given by the Registrar of the Supreme Court, that a Sitting of the Court for despatch of Criminal and Civil business, will be held at the Court House, Dunedin, on Thursday, the Ist June. A supplementary note informs witnesses in the case of Regina v. Jarvey for murder, that their attendance •will not be required until Monday, the 12th June. ' The Kelso Mail observes that the parallel between Julius Cesar and Napoleon Bonaparte, dr.iwn by the Emperor of the French, is not so striking as the difference between them, for Caesar conquered Britain ad Napoleon didn't ! It is said that the creation of a number of new peers may be expected before the dissolution of the present Parliament. Amongst the gentlemen whose names are freely mentioned are Sir Francis Baring, M.P., Mr. Somerset Beaumont, M.F., Mr. Maukinmn, M.P., and Mr. H. Herbert, M P. The ketch Struggler, which was lately stranded on Stewart's Island, was last week sold by auction, by Mr, G, W. Bitiney, and was purchased for the sum of £55, by Messrs. Callow and Pay, who seem to have lost no time in realizing their purchase, as fie vessel is now lying at our jetty,— Southland News. Mr. Senior, one of the Irish poor-law commissioners, has been killed on the Irish Midland Railway. He persisted in crossing the line when a train was coming up in spite of all remonstrances. Lord Chelmsfobd's Joke os the, Casb of Mr. Edmonds.— A correspondent of the Manchester Guardian says :— " A joke is ascribed to Lord Chelmsford, who could not help betraying his pleasure at seeing his great rival roasted, as he was himself for like esiusa not long ago, at the fire of family affection. Somebody eaid that during Lord Derby's pro,j rokingly candid and Ironically forbearing >* speech, 'old Bethell' looked as if he wished himself back in the Commons. • You mean,' •aid Lord Westbury's predecessor on the woolsack, 'he would like, for this session at ¦ ¦/•tat, to be member tor Bury St. Ednmada. ' ' (

Fatal Accident. — The Marlborough Press of the 20th instant says :—": — " It is with deep pain we have to record the deat h by a violent end of Mr. Robert Palmer, the old and highly respected overseer on the run of Mr Fyffe, M.P.C. Yesterday week, early in the morning, Mr. Palmer left Mr. Fj flip's homestead to proceed to one of the ont-sfa-tions, distant about eight miles. He was mounted on a young but exceedingly quiet horse, and had reached within a hundred yards or so of the out-station building, when he pulled up to speak to some of the workmen and give a few directions. Remaining with the men but a few minutes, he turned his horse's head in the direction of the house, and at a walking pace he proceeded on. A short time afterwards one of the men having business at the house proceeded Ihither, when he found Mr. Palmer lying on the ground, and on examining him, to his horror found that he was dead. He at once gave the alarm, and assistance coming, Ihc deceased was conveyed into the house, where the body was examined when it was ascertained that Mr. Palmer had by a fall from his horse broken his neck. He must, frorti the nature of the injury, have died instantly. How the fatal accident occurred is not and never will be known ; but it is presumed that the decceased was sitting carelessly on his saddle, and that the animal stumbled, when he was thrown on to his head and dislootted his neck. An inquest was held on the body of the deceased, and a verdict returned in accordance with the facts of the case, so far as they could be ascertained. While a young widow is weeping over the memory of her husband, she may fl«h up a suooessor in the dark gtream of her tears. In the Wat. —A Dublin merchant running ontfrom his counting-house to get his lunch, was impeded in his progress by a poor man with a wheelbarrow. In his excitement, the merchant told the man to bo with his wheelbarrow to — no matter where. Pat looked round, and curtly replied, " Maybe, your honour, we should be more in your honour's way there than here." " The great beauty of a wife is," said a henpecked husband, "that if she abuses yourself, she won't let any one else abuse you." Eve, according to Milton, kept filenoi in Eden to hear her husband talk. There hare beta no Eres since.