Untitled

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1291, 6 April 1872, Page 3

The Anglo-Australian, in the European Mail, says:—Dr Featherston is in Scotland, busy in the matter of procuring suitable emigrants for New Zealand. Pekin possesses a newspaper said to be a thousand years old. It is printed on silk. A London city clerk, having occasion to write to the Inland Revenue Department on the subject of his incometax assessment, and finding that he was short of envelopes, borrowed two from a neighbor, who had his stationery stamped with a crest. He was prosecuted for using armorial bearings without a licence, and fined j£s and costs. The Liverpool magistrates are about to try a new plan of suppressing drunkenness. Besides fining the inebriates, they intend to publish their names and addresses, believing that publicity will have a deterrent effect, where a money penalty or the loss of a few hours' liberty would have none. Tbe plan has been devised~by Mr Robertson Gladstone, brother of the Premier.