Notes and Events.

Manawatu Herald, 22 October 1892, Page 2

Notes and Events.

♦ From the report of the slander case in che N.Z. Times it is evident that His Honor Judge Richmond was not with Mr Baker. The report says : — . "Mr Baker contended that the District Judge had misdirected the jury and erroneously decided a plea of privilege set up by the defendants. His Honov at once said that the plea of privilege could not be sustained. Mr Baker urged that as the words were spoken by the defendant to her friends in the bona fide belief that she was discharging a moral and I social dnfcy, the occasion must be | considered in law privileged. His Honor (warmly): I tell you I have decided the point; it is untenable, and I will not listen to you any longer. His Honor delivered judgment without calling on Mr Jellicoe. In doing so he said that none of the objections urged by Mr Baker were sustainable. It was obvious that there were no facts in the which could justify the Judge" in holding that any such privilege as claimed by the defendants existed, that he could not review the Judge's refusal to amend Mr Baker's proceedings, or his discretion in refusing to allow evidence to ba called in reply, and there was nothing io show that any evidence was improperly admitted. . :

The following little narrative might be taken as a hint by those who will be asked to subscribe to the Medical guarantee : — Mrs Trotter : ' I hear that all three of Mrs Barlow's children have the measles.' Mrs Faster: 'Yes, so I understand. They're so poor that they have to economise on the doctor by all getting sick at once.'

Doctors are not infallable so that we reproduce a warning as to what not to do. Upon the recent death of a parson, the following bulletin was placed by the family upon the door of his late residence: ' The Eev. Mr S departed this life for heaven at eleven o'clock a.m.* Some passing wag, possessed of more drollery than reverence, placed beneath the notice a telegraph blank 1 filled out in the following manner: — • Heaven, 12 a.m. Mr 8 not yet arrived. Getting uneasy. — Peter. ... .. . ..,. ... ,