Miscellaneous Items

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 26, 12 August 1886, Page 4

Miscellaneous Items

* | Bendigo: the horse which has won f r liis fortunate owner. Mr. H T Barclay . the Eclipse Stakes of £!0,000, the riches. racing prize ever offered or run for in tht world's history, is a six-year- old brown V.nrse, who has distinytii-iir.'d himseiFon si-veral previous occasions. In 1 883, when n three-year-old, he won the Cambridgeshire Stake*, just beating Mr W A . Long's colt Tonas, and thereby pre- , venting the stake coming to Australia ; in 1884 Bendigo was was ngnin kept for fhe same race, nnd only sustained a head defeat by Mr Hammond's slashing raa"o Florence. Last year Bemiigo scored two victories, namely, in the Lincolnshire Handicap and in the rich Hardwicke Stakes at Ascot. He was also second, ■with 9st Blb, in the Cnuibrid»eshire won hj the French mare Plaisunferie. Since that lie has been fcept in clover, and during the last few months has under* gone a special preparation fnr the rich stake he appropriated on Friday. The Barrier murder is just ceasing to be a nine day's wonder; and people are now beginning to appreciate Caffery's artfulness. He has murdered Taylor in cold blood : stolen his employer's vessel, wn(e>-ed victualled ber.foi a long voyage and cleared put it is supposed for South America where an extradition warrant will not be able to reach him. There cannot be the slightest doubt that he had further^ designs on the Taylor and Seymonr families, but was baulked by thorough weather which set in at the time. The Sovereign of the Seas is a smart little cutter of about 60 tons. Perm, his. -companion, is a thorough scamp, and has been concieted at different times in Anckhtd. I fancy their fe male companion will now devoutly wher herself back again on terra firma\ his chance of reaching port again is a very remote one, for her presence will always be a danger to the two culprits, which they will very likely get rid of by making away with her. "The trip 1o South' America' takes over twenty days, but may take her much longer. The •Pall Mall Gazette' calls attention to the emphatic declarations of Mr Justice Hawkins conGereing the inadequacy, of the law — eyen after it was amended last year — for the protection of girls. As !M r Justice Hawkins has himself tried 120 cases within the la*t six mouths, he speaks as an espert whose authority can« Bot be gainsaid. It is indeed scandalous that a satyr like Gibney, who was sentenced recently to four years' imprisonment for assaulting sixteen girl-children between eight an ■ fourteen years ot age, cannot be sentenced to perpetual irapris* men!: Penal servitude for life is the sentence for levying blackmail on a man of w^'ilth; penal servitude and the cat-o%nine-tails foi' taking sixpence with violence ; put neither penal servitude nor the lash can be meted out to those who spend their leisure m corrupting the children of the poor. For them there is only imprisonment, and in the ease of Gibney it only eitenrls to two terms of two years each. ■He ought to have had two years for each case, or thirty-two years in all.