MISCELLANOUS NEWS.

Inangahua Times, Volume III, Issue 97, 2 April 1877, Page 2

MISCELLANOUS NEWS.

We bar* received tbe tbird part of the New Zealand Justice of the Peace, a monthly oeriobcal published hy Mr Wheeler, Dunedin. and edited by Mr G. B. Barton, barri*ter-at«law. Its maia object may be Inferred from its title, namely :— To assist Justices of the Peace, Coroners. &c., in th? discharge of tbeir duties, to collect and discuss practical poinsof la v. to review ddSculties, that ! may at auy time arise in onr tower Court* lof Justice. &\ We*jneed scarcely gay that the Justice o£ the Peace contains much matter both interesting and valu- | able to those for whose esoeiat benefit it jta intended-"' 'he great " unpaid'— and oftentimes to th * t aid magistracy. Our con emporarv «ay< :— -The G-ivemraent has made known its intention to reduce the number of paid Magistrates at every opportunity, and »np »ly the vacuum with the unpaid. Vhe Justices of the Peace w l| be required to take a much more active part in tbe adtmnis ration of justice tban they have hitherto done.. Tuis is undoubtedly a s'ep in the right direction, and will probably* p ove the first sep towards a rein -ddling of the whole ol our legal system. Tie change * quite in accordance with the pra-tic j in Kn jland and the Austra iin Colonies where Justices of the Pc t<** dtsp ,«e of a m iss of b isiness wlwch. in se.v Zealand, i< left to Ihe higher Courts. Th ■■• waste of time and labor invoiced in .mr svstetn is enoroious, and has n » c »rr-snotj.i ng f.dvaijtage. The Justices shou'd ie req«i*ed t> take n>t only the criminal • u-tiues*, bat also the civil business within cert 00 limits— sach as those w lich are defi ted in 'he Victorian Justices of the Peace Statute, which gives j'i is diction up to £3) in alt case of ordn-ry debts, excluding actions o tort, with the exeeptton of a<s*ult» The ju.'isbc ton of the Justices should be rigid j tetin >d. As in any case they are Lkey to need a^sts'anre in matters of law/th* Goverra-nt might adopt the Irish pian and »ia »l. the Jmti*es, when any legal difficulty presents i'self, to state a ease for the opini »n of the Law Officers, This assistance, in Ireland, is furnished by the Law Adviser to tbe Governmen:— not by the Attorney or 6olicitor»General. Io Paris there are contractors who pay the city 80.000dofs per annum for the privilege of keeping Ihe streets dean. The Eastern qu -sti >v has heeft settled in London, by the aurriige of Thos. Turk wish* Jane litis*, The Princess Louise h*s opened iv tho east theatre of th* Albert flail an exhibition of needlework bj. mistresses anti pupils in the public seboola. of London. The Co-operative Fruit Company of Los Angelos, 'Tali to -ait have ordered 503 barrels of orange seeds for planting. The Company now have a million of orange trees ot three year'i growth. Tho Tablet anno inees th* eonrersion, ia London, t o th** Oatholi^ fvthof Misa. Km'y Buchanan, a younj lady well* kimvn and much esteemed in Dunedin. The entire c>ffee cror, of the w->fld last year was 9 10,000,000 \»ou ids, fill? one»htrd of which waa consumed in tha United States. * Great progresais being mile ir^fc the survey of the rivers of Northern, Q tee'islaiid, 1100 mites having been a unded. The thickest armour plate for vessels yet nroliped has j'iat Ken rolled in .Sheffield, by John Brown A Co- V »* » mo e.s tluck. The seam hammer has been applied to the m i jufaeture of stone an I bnok. The ininutWctured articles are s> dattsethat they lose all poroaty aid .-onsequently are impervious td the water. During the year eoling SOt'i June, 1876 one hundred and seventy two ships were laden and cleared from San Francisco with wheat aud flour tor Europe. A man mm" I John Looi? has died in Melboumefro n inj tries receive I by be»ng thrown o-i . of an hotel by the landlord, who has been co uantte 1 or trial. Two bu ehers in B.li. rat have been proceeded against f>f offering for sale Sfc carcases an i 22. sides of mutton, Which were unwholesome. m \ " Did you ever,*' aska a contemporary, " watoh the noiseless movement* of a pretty girl's lips as her dt ess is trodden upon, ani inarrel at < tie *etf»9ott* md which ena >!es her to do the situation justice i» so q<itet a m anu.-r ? A dosen touts of type wonld'i furnish die ies enough to -epr.»seit the ren* k* of lit* average mau, uuder hke iuttueQJte.it.