NOTES ON CURRENT EVENTS.

Manawatu Standard, Issue 42, 20 January 1885, Page 2

NOTES ON CURRENT EVENTS.

Victoria is far and away ahead of other " colonies m th'e extent and varieties of heir manufactures. Whether this may be attributed wholly or m part to heir protective policy is a question winch will probably be answered by each individual m accordance with his views upon the question of Protection v. Freetrade. such is the fact, and the Colony is to be Congratulated upon its successful enterprise. At the present tiinq there * are 2600 factories of all descriptions' m Victoria, capital invested m which amounts ; to . „£8,500,000, the employe's, number 45,000, and the sum annually paid m wages comes to five millions and a\half sterling. The last census of New .^Zealand tiives/the total number of manufactories m this Colony at 1,271. of the. approximate value of £1,1)92,333, and the hands employed about 18,000. \ . ', '>'*'#ne' 'London' Times 'is'erigaged: m a curious crusade against prohibition. Wearers of the blue ribbon, it says, aite' m main persons of inferior physicaixleyelopments ;ahdj. if '-we :ihay judge by their facial expression, are not remark-, able for intellectual power. Our civilsation produces an abundant iindergiiowth of feeble , bodies and .lop-sided minds, •'people' tylicse individiial insignificance becomes 'less oppressive to them, when they fancy, themselves members of a, great organisation. Their vanity is; flattered by the idea that they can set an? example of superiority to others. TJhese^ Wo the people who become anti-vacchja- 7 tors, anti-viyise^onists, or teetotalers, or all- three. As a rule, they are personswho do not require alcohol, sometimes because^a strong digestion enablbs them up sufficient- nutriment m other 'forms, and sometimes "because their /capacity for exerting lorce is so limited that they are compelled to "be. careful m consuming the materials by which 'it is supplied." ';■___ " „;■" Writing of German- annexation m New Guinea, the Australasian says: — j"'Tlie upshot of the whole affair is that colonies-are now m a much wprse position than they were when Mr Chester, .planted the* , British, Jtag on New Guinea. A contingent danger has been transformed into a real peril, and a possible enemy has established himself at our dbo'i\ The names of the islands! an- ; a3>ded denote jthehiuto have been disco- ! ■ vered ;by English navigators, iwith the exception, perhaps, , oft Jfe'w.Hanoiver, whiqh was discovered, we believe* by TaSman.^d, therefore,' Great Britain has a prior claim to their occupaiiionvOn# of 'theiti is larger than- New (jale- • donia, and is only separated by a narrow strait (from New Guinea. Their annexation , by ,(Jennany, ; or without the aca.uießoG ) nce J of Great Britain, is^a jlirect slap m ; ilie face for the colpnifls ; antl no language' 1 will be too 'strong ' to express '■'fche^cleep pain; regret, liuriiiliation, and -" resentment which 'such a' step has occasioned to Her Majesty's subjects m Aus- : trajasia. Nothing; could, have occurred/ so well calculated to weaken .tbe feelings '"' of attachment which bind them to tlie . mother. country, and to shake their confidence m the power, wisdom, and patriotism of the Imperial Government.;

Some months \igo says the Napier Telegraph, 'a,' lwuse on the T White-road was broken into' after midnight, find damage ,done to the furniture. The, of. fenders had money,' and were let off with a fine. If they had been given three months hard labor, it would have been a fitting punishment, r the more so as -they! occupied a respgciableV status m society, and should have known better than to abuse the position of a woman who it was' cowavfliee' lk) think was help;-; less. The leniency shown on that ; occasion, perhaps* had something to: do with!tho commission of a similar otfen.ee more recently, and which was brought before, .Jihe- Resident Magistrate yesterday, when agaiii a fine was the punish-, onent ajyarded,, with of course. the costs' 'a ; ud tlaniagea ! of tUffo^o. :; We utterly fail to see why "all classes,of. the com* muni ty should not - obtain ; the same i measure 'of protection ;against ruffianism < i whether: that calls itself ltpk? . jng pr hpusebreaking. V; ■: :\,u ;■;!..

, The Crarmoyle breach of promise case, m which Miss Finrieyl known as Hiss Portoscuo, of the theatrical' profession/ sued Lord Garmoyle, eldest son of Earl Gairns, for breach of promise df mar-,-riage, willMstilibeifrieshjjn the uunds of pur readers, the plaintiff ;gau^ng ,a verdict by consent of detendant for ±10,000.,Commenting on this the Law. Journal says:— "The, ilO.OOOaWarded to !the plaititiff m Fibney vl Gairns (otherwise! GarinOyle) is ■ probabiy ; the ■ largest , amount ol damagesever recorded m this cojintry ill an aqtion for breach ofupromise of marriage. The nearest ,'ap-' prpach.tQ, it is given m 1885 to;a ,sol|ciwo (laughter for" the loss of the., 'allia]}cg'bf a sotioifrir- yjMq bft4 iHUierited a considerable !fb£ttitie from' his ! ft,tiieij (t'Woad, '-.*; Hurd,' a Bing r 'JJ.C. 166.). In 1866 the sum of was -.awarded to a iniUiner.'s daitghter as compensation for ipging. a husband m the shapfe of a ypung g^fttj^nian with ±700 a year &sfiii'y V.. Dajpqf3ta/85Law. J. Rep. C, P. 191), but tjfieve were ou'pmnstances ! ii ifte case "tending tq 'make tlie fla'iiia^^ exemplary, In former times apparently it w.as wore gommon for disappqinted husbands tQ hms ftptions than now, and m the reign pf Wiljiarn ftnd ftfary ±400 was awarded for the Iqss Qf a 144y worth ±6000. .('Harrison v. Gage,' Cartb. 467)—^the -lai-gesfc sum, we ..believe, awarded unsympathetic jurymen to » pale plaintiff. .:. No doubt as \arge, ,ki& 'perhaps. . larger, sums than the present lmv§ b>en paid out of court, but we now havp a» .ass@.^ment, agreed upon by all concernp4 arfd sa,notjqne4 by a, jury, of a.cQijutesQ's cproijgt: $t '±10,0,00, ... .-• :

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