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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1451, 10 October 1872, Page 2

An extraordinary seen.* oocurrod at the Warwick quarter sessions between* Sir J. Eardly Wilmot, recorder, and* the pei ty jiiiry. For some time past, the borough has been in a state ot chronic excitement owing to several singular verdicts of not guilty returned hy the local juries in cases where the guilt of the prisoner has been considered" indisputably clear; and recently thetown council petitioned Government to. abolish these qtuuter sessions, on theground that it was impossible to get: justice administered. On the 25th nit. a man named Griffin -vas charged withi a violent highway robbery on a man named Mooney, living at Leamington.. He was caught in the act by a policeman, who found the prosecutor's property in his The prisoiierr told the polieeuvan he knew he was done, and should plead guilty, but nevertheless the jury acquitted him,. The recorder characterised it as the clearest case of guilt he had before hin\ and solemnly remonstrated with the jury for their veidiet. After this, hesaid, he hoped the local authorities would renew the attempt to get thk court ef quarter sessions abolished, and promised all the. assistance in his power to secure that desirable object. We get at last (says the Melbourne Daily Telegraph) some tangible evideuce of the auriferous resources of Northern Australia. The Sydney Empire has investigated the subject, and conclude!*, to fall back upon that high authority,, Marco Polo, the gossiping and adventurous Venetian, who found his way to. the Court of Kubla Khan, and had the honor of communicating to Europe f»lk particulars of Piester John. "It i c » in qui opinion," says our con tern porary v " a reasonable conclusion to draw that the Port Darwin territory is part of the country described by Marco Polo, under the name of He visited Sane bawa, or Lester Java, in the year 12.9.3,. and there heard of a great country of a. wild and desolate character called Locliac, situated at the distance of about 750 miles south-east of Sambawa, where the people were savages, and ' where gold was abundant to a degreescarcely credible.' lb was in all proba- | IftJHy owing to this statement in Mateo I Polo's travels that traditions respecting* great South land, rich in gold, valenl in Europe several centuries afoKft, and which were so thoroughly believed by the prisoners and others who arrived by the <first fleet' in ITBB that many ; of them, perished in their attempts ta reach the auriferous region., .A

During the month of August last the deposits at the Savings Bank in Adelaide, S.A., amounted to £.1,000 daily. For some weeks past {say.-* a late Sydney Herald) the price of meat in Sydney has been considerably in advance of what it was for some length of time previously — in fact, mutton is nearly double the price it was two or three months ago. The Rev. JohnO. Hanlon, M.R.T.A., Dublin, has issued an elaborate illustrated prospectus of the "Lives of the Irish Saints," to be completed in twelve royal octavo volumes, compiled from authentic published and manuscript sources, with maps defining the boundaries of the ancient and modern dioceses. A jury in North Carolina, after being charged in the usual way by the Jud,e, retired to their room, when a white juror ventured to ask a colored associate if he understood the charge of the Judge. "Golly!" exclaimed the astonished juror, "he don't charge us nuffin for dat, does he? Why, I thought we were gwine to get paid." An entirely white lion, says a Chile paper, has been captured and is exexhibited in Buenos Ay res. £2,000 was offered for it by an English merchant for the Zoological Gardens in London. If you are fond of having flowers in the room, you will be glad to know bow to preserve cut flowers as long as possible. The most simple rales are not to put too many flowers into one glass, to change the water every morning, and remove every decayed leaf a» soon as it appears, cutting off the ends of the ends of the stems occasionally, as soon as they show any symptoms of decay. A more efficacious way, howe\er, is to put nitrate of soda in the water. About as much as can be easily taken up between the forefinger and thumb, put into the glass every time the water is changed, will preserve cut flowers in all their beaury for above a fortnight. Nitrate of potash (that is, common saltpetre), in powder, has nearly the effect, but is not quite «0 efficacious.