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Const Smart is investigating a case of reported attempted blowing-up, with gunpowder, near Boat Harbour.

The adjourned sitting of the S.M’s Court is to be held on Wednesday, at 10 a.m. Mr Bishop, S.M., is, we understand, to come up overland.

Under the Oaths Act Amendment Act, it is proposed to allow every witness in civil or crimiual proceedings to make oath as follows : —“ I swear by Almighty God, as I shall answer to God at the great day of judgment, that I will speak the truth, tbe whole truth, and nothing but the truth.” The right band is to be held up during the recitation of the words quoted.

There are two or three important cases to be heard by Mr Bishop, S.M., on Wednseday next, the more importaat being in connection with the Green Hills station—a claim for rabbit skins, etc.—which is occasioning a good deal of interest, locally. It is reported that Mr Stringer, Crown Prosecutor, Christchurch, is to appear for tbe plaintiffs.

■Yesterday Mrs Gordon's eldest child, a lad of about 10 years of age, met with an accident through a companion attempting to lassoo him. In endeavouring to evade the noose young Gordon ran foul of a light spring cart, laden with goods. Before the driver (J. Kent) could pull the horse up, the cart wheel ran partially over one of the lads legs, with the result that his ankle has been dislocated, at least so we are informed. Parents should warn their children against the danger surrounding feats of amateur lassooing Here is one evidence of the injury that may be done, while strangulation of a child is not at all improbable if youngsters carry on the game, which must be stopped it possible.

A special meeting of the Kaikoura Branch of the N. Z. Workers’ Union is to be held next Wednesday evening.

“The Abattoirs and Slaughterhouses Act, 1894,” introduced by the Colonial Treasurer, is a measure aiming at censolidation of tbe law on the matter it deals with. Repeal of the Acts passed between 1877 and 1891, both years inclusive, is sougnt, and the proposals of the Bill will, if carried, make the law much more stringent.

The Napier Evening News gets off the following:—“lf we know the Rev. Mr McAra, Presbyterian minister at Kaikoura, and we fancy we do, he will visit the editor of the local Star with a bludgeon in his hand. That audacious journalist, in describing a wedding in which Mr McAra performed the ceremony, said : —* Mr McAra being the celebrant.’ " The News then endeavours to be sarcastically funny at our expense over the use of the word “ celebrant," but only succeeds in becoming ridiculous. Celebrant is quite admissible, even if it be not absolutely correct. The meaning of the term being (as tbe would-be joker of the News can learn for himself) one who celebrates, or one who engages in the solemnization of a public religious rite. Perhaps the News man, being in a captious mood, would have us use the word “ perform." That would not be entirely out of place, or absolutely inappropriate, but tbe hypercritical might retoit, “True, but actors and fools very often perform, as, also, do animals of the quadrumana species.” If a marriage is not a religious rite then celebrant may be styled pedantic. The News paragraphist must have been hard put to when he endeavoured to make merry over such a matter. The sight, even, of a bludgeon would, we opine, be too much for him, while a tap on bis cranium from a child’s wooden hammer, a mere toy, would, it appears, reveal a startling shallowness, and a weakness now only partially disclosed. Fancy goes a long way in some cases; so in this. The News man has a fancy that he knows our reverend friend. He cannot do so rightly, or he would know that that gentleman is not given to making such a sorry exhibition of himself as the News would mistakenly lead its readers to believe, or infer, out townsman is apt to do. This journalistic amenity will, we trust, lead to the Star and News becoming better acquainted and fast friends, journalistically, at any rate. It will give us infinite pleasure to meet our “ contemporary ” of Napier, and discuss, with him, say, an omelette, or some other savoury edible, and qualify the whole with a glass of claret. We are rather easily satisfied, and never thirst for any man's blood ! Ta-ta News !

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Kaikoura Star, Volume XIV, Issue 757, 20 July 1894, Page 4

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Untitled Kaikoura Star, Volume XIV, Issue 757, 20 July 1894, Page 4

Untitled Kaikoura Star, Volume XIV, Issue 757, 20 July 1894, Page 4

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