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Hawke's Bay Times, Issue 1531, 5 December 1873, Page 38

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A Much-required Law

In order to prevent tlie possibility of! such a case as that of the Tichborne Claimant ever again recurring, it is said that early next session a bill will be introduced into Parliment to the effect that should any person "through any eccentricity or other cause, purposely abstain form making his existnce known for a certain number of years, he shall bo looked Upon as dead in the eyes of the law, the property to which he may have claim to go to the next of kin. A Profitable Sinecure. In the debate on the English Estimates it was stated that the Rev. Mr. Thurley, a connection of the Lord Chancellor of that name, had received in respect of a sinecure oiSce the enormous sum of four hundred and ninety-three thousand pounds! Mr. Mellor, the member for Ashton-under-line, inquired whether this lucky person was still alive, and the Treasury assured the House that he was, and that he had drawn nearly £13,000 a year from the pocket of the public for nearly half-a-century. The Last Thing In Bonnets. Glass bonnets are among the novelties at the Vienna Exposition. These articles come from Bohemia, and specimens have been sent to Paris and London, and some also to the United States?, in the hope that they Avill become popular, and be " all the fashion" next Antum. The hat is described as made of loose pieces of glass, fastened closely together by a gutta-percha band, which allows it to conform to the head. Inside there is a lining of silk, and the trimmings are various. Birds and flowers are chiefly used for ornaments, coloured so naturally that in appearance thej' are far superior to the usual artifical goods, A bonnet of glass weighs but a f«w punces, only a very small quantity beijig used in it§ construction. Of course they are very durable, rain will not spot them, and the cost is said to be small.