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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 18, Issue 1093, 12 August 1871, Page 2

A child, thirteen months old, has died at the Thames from taking "soothing syrup/ 3 The Wanganui Herald of a late date contains an advertisement " to lawyers," inviting tenders for bringing actions against the editors of the Evening Herald and the Wanganui Chronicle for having placed the name of the advertiser to au indictment for drunkeness in the R. M. Court* The Wakatip [Otago] Mail says:—At a sitting of the Warden's Court, the Chinese litigants set an excellent example. A day or two before they withdrew all the cases between themselves, and deposited for each of the several companies the sum of £so—£2oo. The Company that first goes to law is to forfeit £SO, and so on. They have also adopted an arbitration tribunal, to whom all matters of dispute between themselves are to be referred. Of coarse the Europeans would not use these means, but " John" is thoroughly disgusted with the European Courts of Justice. He says that he always goes to the wall, and cannot understand it at all. Hence this new movement, which is likely to be adopted i throughout the district.