The Otago Daily Times says :—At the conclusion oi the trial of the man Oonden, the prosecutor, fearing an ac tion for false imprisonment through the prisoner having been discharged without the case going to the jury, inquired of his Honor what the probabilities wire on that head. His Honor replied that there was a popular idea in the public mind, similar to what he had notic 3d in drafts of Acts of Parliament, that the judges should be popular lawyers. Although he was not bound xo answer questions of the kind, he informed Mr Williams that he might rest safe from the fear that an action would he brought against him, Miss Marietta Chi Ids la-4 year, says the Saline (Ka.) Post, with the aid of a girl thirteen years old, set out ten acres of cotton wo »d trees, upon her firm at Oak Cieek. A. boy marked the rows with a plough. The trees were pulled from land broken the year Previous. The whole cost, beside her labor, was S2O. The profit from these ten acres, in ten years, will be greater than ten crops of wheat or com would **• Miss Chillis, this year, on her homestead, near Crete, has put out 1,000 shade trees, besides appletrees, gooseberry and raspberry bushes and Sfoawberry vines,
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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 18, Issue 1139, 6 October 1871, Page 3
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