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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume I, Issue 139, 15 August 1866, Page 2

On the second reading of the Criminal Law Procedure Bill being moved in the House of Representatives, Mr. Reynolds expressed a hope that the . Government would, in committee, introduce a clause doing away with grand juries altogether (Oh, oh, and hear, hear). He could, only say that in the province from which he came, Otago, it waa a perfect farce. Another member for the same province, Mr. Wood, said that the grand juries had been "dispensed with in other "colonies, and it was found a great -benefit in comparison with the English system. The proposition did not find favor with the' representatiyes.of the other. provinces. Mr. Wildman, ; the absconding Secretary of the Lands Department at Adelaide, has been arrested at Swanhill. At the conversazione of the Reformatory and Refuge Union, held in London' a short time ago, the Earl of Shaftesbury in the chair, the Rev. A. B.' Suter, Bishop Designate of Nelson, New Zealand, .gave the children a New Zealand proverb—-" The pleasure of looking at good; food is.short, but that of looking; at. a; gqod man. is lasting," and asked whether they; would ■ rather- have, their tea or spend their time looking' sit Lord Shaftesbury ?7 There was a uniyersaland.loud response— " Rather have '.our tea!" 77