LCOAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 5, 4 December 1883, Page 2

LCOAL AND GENERAL.

The Gisborne Herald, in announcing the fact that the juvenile depositors of Denny" postage cards have dwindled down at the local postaj branch to juet three or fovbr, remarks' thiat^ U Ms perhaps well:! that this state of things is so. ' There are only 4©ft. many children inclined to greed, avp ic4i ' and selfishness without the Gnv rnment. officially encouraging vicious tabitai ri -filr. lifted B,li.ss, anctjoner, oi, Me|« bourne, who was one dftbV victims of the" JoUmont railway accident about eighteen months sine?, and who received substantial damages from the Victorian Government, has succumbed to the effects of the in* -juriea he : received, ; „ • < . .' . -, , : . | . According to the Sandhurst journals, there if a class of men who, for a pecuniary consideration, become bondsmen for women- udder reajand for various offences. One of tbeae professional bondsmen ad* nutted in the Ansize Court on Friday last "fthßt^be peneralJy.Tec^ivpd; £l foxhis ser» >Tice*idthatcai>aiity;i. V V >.\. 2.. --..The, Bruce Herald is of opinion that tjhe majority of Freethinkers, and not a mostx^praved 'characters, are *those;whir>=had;W|igiob.oraxnm2d into them both Sundays- and week days in their youtb. A. nunibe'f : bf fcidye^tjsaavents are .stills held, over till room can be made for them W* fear: some of our advertisers will think we are treating them rather un« . kindtvan this respect, /but we tyiU .mafc*[ amends at some other time. A verdict for threepence, and one guinea costs, was given in the Hutt Court, Wellihflrton latflly.i Wi OBurfr, storeTreepiMS ? sued Tsdwin Pike, settler, for £8 B*, goods uuppltefl aHong ttrae apro. Defendant set up- tUe plea that the <l<*bt was barred by ;.the {jStatuJbp/of Xanaitations : and on goina JOtoltlie account only one item, a pound of .snea^, was found to have been supplied the limit of sir years. Verdict accordingly. Though the letter of the law enabled the defendant to escape roost of his i debt, {here waa&jSort of equity in his Tiaving to pay ilTs'Sd for a pound of ~ ragar v _ : „ .. It is admitted (says a Southern Journal) that in New Zealand paterbnl Government has been piVshed^^tdan extreme undreamed of even by Orientals; 1 ' The New Zealander from 'the, hour in which his parents register -his Wrth to that when tho Life Assurance \ Deparfmßnt ; pays his policy to his widow 'or eiecutor; braided or impeded in the . face, of }iUs L by asiistanoe. pleasmg-doty, the payment of the pWperty't^f, should by law be performed this weel;.