A Nice Family

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 148, 14 July 1888, Page 3

A Nice Family

At one of the New South Wales Circuit Courts a prisoner was tried for horse stealing. His council represented the prisoner as an innocent man, the hope of a respectable family. "Gentlemen," said he in conclusion, " convict my client, and over him will weep a loving mother, a fond sister, and an admiring father." The jury were hard-hearted enough to disregard his appeal, and found the man guilty. The Judge, who appeared to be delighted with the verdict, wound up as follows: — " Prisoner, the sentence of this Court is that you he kept in penal servitude for five years. When you get to Darlinghurst you will meet your loving mother who is serving a 6entenoe for sheep steeling. When you get to Berrima, you will meet your admiring father, who has been convicted for burglary; and then if you should be transferred to Bathurst you will have the advantage of seeing your fond sister, who has been found guilty of infanticide. I don't think prisoner, any of them will have any inclination to weep over you." Now that we may expect some cold weather and the Winter is duly setting in, the matter of purchasing Flannels is a very important one, and "one who knows" advises all and sundry to either buy personally or send their orders to the Wholesale Family Drapery Warehouse, Te Aro House, Wellington. At first newspaper correspondents shrank from even mentioning the estimated number of the dead resulting from the overflow of the 'Yellow- river, but there is every reason to believe that the calcuation by the European who is most jn the secrets of the Government at Pek« in is nowise exaggerated, and that it is probable that about 7,000,000 out of the 25,000,000 inhabitants of the Province of' Honanhave perished ; notwithstanding that by clinging to planks and float* me furniture, a vast nnmber succeeded in eventually reaching districts beyond the reach of the waters. ADVEBTisiNa Cheats.— lt has become bo common to write the beginning of an elegant, interesting article, and then ran it into some advertisement, that we avoid all such cheats, and simply call attenation to the merits of Dr. Soule's American Hop Bitters in as plain honest terms as possible, to induce people to give them one trial ,as no one who knows their value will ever uae anything else.— Pnmdenee -AiwrtUer.