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Motueka Star, Volume II, Issue 80, 20 May 1902, Page 3

Mr Justice Williams has upheld the decision gi en in the Magistrate’s Court, Dunedin, in favor of plaintiff in a case in which Smith, a butcher, sued the St Kilda Borough Council for having wrougfully and negligently constructed a ditch and allowed it to remain unprotected and uncleansed, and the bank to remain in an insecure and faulty condition, whereby his horse was injured. As was expected, Germany is paying in loss of trade, for the slanderous attacks on Britain, and according to the Berlin Merchants’ Guild already orders to the amount of hundreds of millions of marks have been lost. The punishment is well deserved, and the attacks have only had the effect, so far as Britain is concerned, of improving her commerce among her own people. The full effect of the slanders has not yet been felt by Germany, as the action taken by that nation has paved the way for improved relations between the Motherland and the colonies. It is estimated (says the Christchurch Press) that the meeting of Canterbury sheep owners, held in Christchurch last week, represented close upon one million sheep. A Swedish woman has started what is called the “somersault cure” for women who desire to improve their figure. “Sometimes,” she says, “it takes logic and patience to persuade a stout, dignified lady to turn a somersault, and in the preliminary trials a difficult object has to be helped over. At forty-five, you know, such an action seems an awful and awkward enterprise, but once you learn how to turn somersaults, even at fifty, the exhilaration of it grows on you and its effects on one’s girdle measure are simply astonishing.” During a discussion at the meeting of the National Council of women at Napier, it was stated that there -was a great amount of drunkenness amongst young marledKwomen in New Zealand. One speaker said that she had witness/' ed scenes which had horrified and pained her, w T hen bright young lives had been blighted through the effects of diink, resulting in neglected homes and neglected children. Nothing, she added, had so much tended to make her an out-and-out temperance advocate as the effects of drink on young women. In a shooting competition at Levin Private Wood, who won the Cup, made the following score at 500 yards —55555454555555555544—96, out of a possible 100. He must have got tired of making bulls eyes. A Wellington correspondent telegraphs :---There is some little trouble here over the Seddon purse of sovereigns- Objection has been taken to remitting the amount to Christchurch. At a recent meeting of the committee there was some discussion as to who was entitled to the credit for initiating the testimonial. Two numbers claimed that they started the project butthat the original suggestion came from someone else who had asked them to go down to Christchurch and initiate it. At this meeting it was also stated that Mr Seddon had given a hint that he did not want the purse presented on the eve of his departure for London. The total amount of "the purse is said to have reached .£2500.