A I.noAU BurcHEU.—Professional men do strange things sometimes. Here is earn'd friend Mr H. B. Roberts, a leading member of the Wanganui bar, has determined to prove that lawyers never do devour their clients, by turning butcher, supplying the hungry with cheap meat, and his own oCico with sheepskins for parchments In reference to this the Times remarks :—“Our respected townsmin, Mr 11. B. Robert?, solicitor, was on the sth instant, ly the Wanganui Bench of Magistrates, legally licensed to slay and killsheep, cattle, Ac-, in a slaughter house erected on his property No. 2 lice. Wo believe it is Mr Roberts’s intention to lower the present high price of meat, and as ho has erected a slaughter-hooso and taken a
licence lor two years lie evidently meansbusiness. Details will, of course, ‘bo published in future advertisement,’ whoa it will more fully appear that legal lulling is notmurder.” —Independent. Teuegbathic. —The telegraph lino between Christchurch and Hokitika, which was erected and lias hitherto been worked at the expense of the Provincial Government of Canterbury, has been taken over by the General Government, ami will be worked by them from Ist Jauuary next. Customs Keiuhns.—Tise amount cf Customs revenue collected at the various ports in the colony during the quarter ended the SOlh September last was £196,489, compared with £199,452, re- ' ceived during the September quarter of IOC^
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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume XII, Issue 537, 26 December 1867, Page 1
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