CLIPPINGS.

Evening Star, Issue 3082, 4 January 1873, Page 3

CLIPPINGS.

The Wanganui Herald saya :—“ A gentle* man in Rangitikei, who through his wife has come into a princely fortune, has just received a demonstrative proof of the reality of the affair in a kind of preliminary remittance amounting to LI 100.” .At a sale of wool and flax held by Mr A. Buckland at Auckland, on the 27th ult,, nearly 700 bales of wool were sold, amounting to nearly L 14.000, of which L 12.000 worth were bought by one house on foreign account. The highest price realised was Is 9d. The Chinese in Victoria seem to be building up a future for themselves in that Colony, and a monopoly in certain special productions, and amongst these tobacco. Numbers of them, it seems, have engaged in tobacco cultivation about the Mitta Mifcta to an extent which must seriously interfere with imports into the Colony. No fewer than five waggon loads of the leaf, each waggon containing five tons, passed through Beechworth in one day, and the loading would not be worth less than Llsoo.—lndependent. Some years back the Rev. F. D. Maurice wrote to The Times to state that a gentleman went to the British Museum with an order to have a caf?e opened, containing some valuable medals, for his inspection. He examined a particular medal, which was supposed to be unique, restored it to the tray, and after talking some time with the custodian was about to leave, when the latter discovered that the medal was missing. It was searched for everywhere, and could not be found, when it was suggested that the pockets of the visitor should be examined. To this he demurred, and a policeman was sent for. However, before he arrived the medal was found to have slipped between the tray and the bottom of the case. When asked why he refused to be searched, the supposed culprit produced a medal from his pocket, the exact counterpart of that which was in the case, and remarked that his object had been to verify the authenticity of his own, which being identical with the missing one, and discovered in his pocket, would at once have convicted him of the theft,— Globe. We shall save something in type metal and printers’ ink by the consideration of the Colonial Minister in sending us a Governor without many titles. In Queensland they are (in this respect) less fortunate. In a late number of the Government Gazette of that Colony, I read the following heading of an official notification :—“ Proclamation by the Most Honorable George Augustus Constantine, Marquis of Normanby, Earl of Mulgrave, Viscount Normanby, and Baron Mulgrave of Mulgrave, all in the county of York in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, and Baron Mulgrave of New Ross in the county of Wexford in the Peerage of Ireland, a member of Her Majesty’s Most Honorable Privy Council, Govemor-in-Chief of _ the Colony of Queensland and its r ependencies.” In seven columns this detail of titular distinctions is repeated eight times, and fills, by measurement, fully two out of the said seven columns. It looks like a waste of force to discover so imposing a preface to the announcement that J. Smith’s license to occupy 40 acres of land is forfeited, and to find it all repeated a little lower down in a notice that the same 40 acres are again open for selection.

Ibr a considerable time past the borough of Warwick has been in a state of chronic excitement, owing to several singular verdicts of not guilty being returned by local juries at the Q'arter Sessions in cases where, it is said, the guilt of the prisoners has been considered indisputably clear; and recently the Town Council petitioned the Government

to abolish these Quarter Sessions on the ground that it was impossible to get justice administered. On July 5, a man named Gridin was Jurgcd with a violent highway robbery. He was caught in the act by a policeman, who found prosecutor’s property in his possession. Prisoner told the policeman be knew he was “ none,’ ar.,l should p’ead guilty. The jury acquitted Idm. The Recorder character! :ed it as die clearest case of guilt he had ever had hefor him, and solemnly remonstrated with the jury for their verdict. After this he hoped the local authority would renew the attempt to get this Court abolished, and promised all the assistance in his power to secure that desirable object.