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Manawatu Standard, Volume XII, Issue 1733, 14 June 1886, Page 4

Regarding the manner of dealing with habitual -drunkard*, the Inspector of Lunatic Asylums says:— "There have been eight commit ia!s to asylums under the clauses of the Act relating to habitual diunkards. Great difficulty occurs m complying with the requirements of the statute — that these persona should be placed m a building, or part of a building, not occupied by lunatics. In fact, no special accommodation exists for them m any of the public saylums. If proper accommodation does not exist m an asylum, the cummiltal of habitual drunkards to that establishment, being certaiuly illegal, should be piohibited. Speaking at a Socialist meeting m London recently, Mr Champion said that" even with a prosecution hanging over his head he did not hesitate to nay that if he thought the miserable iVßteni under which they now lived, •with all its attendant horrors, could be got ritl of by cutting the throat' of one and a quarter million lend-owners who took so much more than their ■hare of the country, he would cat their throats with his own hand if he were *Me at that very minute. He would, so help him Heaven." Fancy the poverty of a poor body Content with being a charwoman at threepence per week to h maiden' lady, named Alinnet, who has just died at Girton, near Newark, under circumstance* that would lead to the assumption that she had bes suffering from extreme poverty; but whim .the house was searched after the funeral £2,34o was discovered. The money was .secreted m different places, £400 being found at the top of the bed, while a number of bank notes were iound stitched beneath a carpet a 1 * for lining. Fifteen spade ace guineas were found, and altogether there was about a peck of copper, silver, and gold coins. If or u»i ny y cie i| r» the old woman had lived alone, no one being ad initted to the house but the elderly, charwoman who did the house work for 3d. per week. A correspondent of a- London paper writes: — One of the most distressing 'features of our streets at this severe season is the placing and exposing of infants m »poMtions to excite charity and receive alms. £t seems to me sir, that m the interests of tho poor helpless waifs it should be the diity of policemen to lake such children, whenever fonnd, to ihe nearest union, and when those who own them, or pretend to own then, are discovered, they should be brought under the. notice of the nearest magistrate. I am aware that there is a Society for the Prevention of cruelty to children, but I fear that until another Plimsoll shall arise the stream ot. busy Jife will flow on, heedlesh of infants who die ironi want and exposure m our streets, 'that besotted creatures many gratify debased -and brutal appetites. • A Sydney paper says "Such is the infamy of the British lawyerjiension system that Lord Halsbury (Hardinge Giffard), who was Lord Chancellor of the liite Tory Ministry, and only held that post during -*he law and Upper House holidays jnow gets £5000 a-year for the rest of ' hwnatnral life. ShouLlhelive tnbe ,80 he will havedrawn, m consideration P,;of his mx monthsi services, for which me was well paid, £1 50,000! Lord Bmugham was Lord Chancellor for 2 Jyeftrs, lived 38 years, after his appointment, and drew m pension money £230,000 screwod out of the toil and sweat aud sorrow and sufferings of English millions. After all we think there really must be a hell. 'There There are several millions with insufficient food m a country vhere a man for doing nothing for six months gets £5000 a year for life! ." Twenty-five or thirty years ago," *riteH the Inspector of Stock m New South Wales, "the saddle horses of linn colony, taken as a whole, were Ilie best m tbe world ; but now it ia Iniverrtally allowed that comparati veil few really first-class saddlo and light harness horses are to be met," |le adds, "and tlmf this* is also the {pinion of Colonel Beu Williams, who fctely visited this colony from India. Pile inspector ■ (Mr Bruce) attributes his .deterioration m great part to the £tenti"n devoted to the production Kwift racehorses. It wns a favour■^atement of Bir Hercul< s Robinimproved ihe. breed of ouylit to be' encourage\l Pl^PH»ugon ; but that theory ia fe^no^n to be fallaQious, It is X proved th»t we cannot h«?e botb Bkgth ft»4 gr^afc fl«etPß3» in^