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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 16, Issue 859, 5 November 1870, Page 2

Judge Forbes, in a recent decision at Gee* long, determined that, as an old act of George 11. was still in force, no person could obtain a verdict for liquors sold iu quantities less in value than 20/ at a time. A, Melbourne paper says:— Tl\e late Ovens. Constitution must have been (if there is any truth in an old sailor's superstition) launched on a Eriday. Here is a category ' at' the ills which have befallen those most promiuently conn.eoted with it. We cull from the Spectator :-—The tchtors of that journal, which was first started in 18&6, and became defunct in, 1868, when the Ovens Spectator commenced its career, were singularly unfortunate. The first became insolvent; the second died suddenly, with a suspicion of being aecidently po^oned,; the thjrd, Mr Barry, has within the last week committed suicide j the fourth and fifth editors bepame insane ; the sixth, a gentles men who bought the paper, lost heavily by his, venture; the seventh and lust has not as yet, sustained any serious calamity in consequence of his connec ion with the departed Q^M