EXTRAORDINARY SCENE IN COURT.

Manawatu Herald, Volume II, Issue II, 13 December 1889, Page 3

EXTRAORDINARY SCENE IN COURT.

An exciting scene occurred in the Police Court at Christchurch, when a man named Phillip Wilberforce, with several aliases, was charged with stealing £18 from the Sandridge Hotel. He asked for the case to be heard by the Resident Magistrate. This could not be done, and he violently abused the Justices, Messrs {> * Hulbert and Johnstoi*, calling them y\ cads, jackdaws and liars, asserting he would not be tried by them, and interrupting the evidence till tht Bench ordered the case to be ad journed, and committed him for con tempt. Inspector Pender persuadec 4iira to apologise.; and the case pro voeaded. Tha, evidence, showed tha he lodged at the hotel under thi name of Perham. While he wa there money was missed from a cas] box in a drawerin the landlord' bedroom. Late one night the ac cused was seen crossing the passag : from the direction of the landlord' ;j|. room to his own ; the gas was feurne out. The police found on him ake which unlocked the drawer whei the money was kept. The Benc ;. considered the evidence insufficieni h and distoUsed the case. The con '§■ [:'.. mittalfor contempt was withdrawi W^ : '*^tMAnQQfation* - ■•'■"' :■■ ■■

•ernbroidcrv are smII favourite t im aai%s. The fish, not seems to be getting popular, and it is now madp in -every d« lioato lint. Booses fo»---evening wt ar with transparent lons . si >eve and d' ep pointed yokes are asomadooffistittec. The yoke is 2 jrmed of sever 1 rows of very nu'row pearl- edge 1 rib on ran in ai d o it rf fienft. Thf« so-crt led uncrush'iUe £§k net ia a new gossamfr-like | lu^t y\a , but it do- s not r» Fpml.le fish r.Pt. Npar'y ».ll the new laco is pointed, and the coloured lace is embroidered. _. * ..-.. &"■'-, • »■£* - .... .-, Flowers haye, giveri placer- "w feathers in ornaments for the hair. In fact, heather is the only flower that competes with the coat «f the p3trich. Insects have gone out of fashion— blown away. Gold and silver tinsel ornameiVs are also popular. Then there is one of la single wreath of ostrich • feathers, and the fourth "doable wreath. Ostrich is the;" Material chiefly used. Some of the newest mob caps are made of guipure and torchon lace with serrated edges with twisted velvet fronts and ornamented with loops of delicate ribbon, heliotrope, yellow, pink, blue, moss green. One pretty cap 'Was trimmed with loops of whitg, and pink velvet, the front of another' pretty cap was of white mtfraßout' flecked with gold at the edges. A good many caps arr trimmed with sprays of heather. Baby ribbon is also worn on caps, but it isn't becoming, Blouses and jerseys are getting prettier and prettier. They are en-, tirely loaingdihehr shapeless shap^i A blouse I saw this week was of delicate old rose silk, smocked at the neck and wrists. This looks pretty to wear at the theatre with a alack lace fskirt. A blouse of this character can be used as a variation with all sorts of skirfej; / . ., .«. Some evening, dress novelties-—' brocades, velvets, aud silks— were shown io me at Evans's. This is to. be a season of velvet, and, over, a hundred shades have already been reproduced. But brocades, striped and tiDsel brocades, will hold t^eir own for trains and petticoals. The tinsel brocades are the most popular because they look so brilliant by the artificial light. Silver sprays, and leaves are scattered over ft ground of .white or pearl ; gold sprays and leaves over a black ground. Natural sized gold leaves scattered thickly over a black ground looked lovely. The rainbow brocade at 10s a yard is chopper and pretiier than the tinsel. Narrow stripes of pale pink, yellow and blue on a white ground, are strewn faintly over with ears of corn. This brocade — gQ"!4. **£r t s™y»fop . wti*- t>kie, yellow, pink, or white material. Apple blossoms on a delicnto green ground looked pretty. Another brcoade at 1 OS"; had broad stripes o gobelin grey and narrower stripes of terra-cotta and old gold, thinly covered with an old conventional design resembling palm Rives. Moss roses and burls and tulips are the favourite floral designs on slriped brocades at uiaepence more than ten shillings.