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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 165, 10 July 1873, Page 2

The Wellington Mutual Investment Society has just brought its operations to ; ; a clo'ae, by which each shareholder, who. haa contributed to the funds of the Society £27 5a in the course of nine yeare, receives £50 per .share. The payment to shareholders commenced this clay, and we are informed tbat the sums eo paid amount to £34, 1 96. —Post. - Picton. — • The Yress says that for several days laftt week the Wharf presented a busy scene while the labor of unloading the railway material was going on. The / Spec and Kate brought a quantity of iron, and the.Paterson brought some 160 tons rails; and as these, vessels; were being unloaded at the same time as a steamer from* the. North came in with a quantity of cargo, it afforded an idea of what may be expected in the future when the traffic is what it should and . what it will be. ' In speaking of the improvements being effected in the House of Assembly, the Wellington Evening Post says — The new House of Representatives and Legislative Council Buildings are being vigorously pushed forward towards completion. The internal decorations are simple, but very pleasing in effect/ the gold : and pale blue with which the panelling is picked out contrasting very happily with the creamy white background. The foliated wheel medallions in the centre of each panelled compartment, which form the characteristic feature of the ornamentation, are tastefully designed and very effective. There is one defective point of detail in the internal arrangements which.it is, jto be hoped it is not foo.'late to rectify. . The reporters' gallery is so high above the speakers, tbat it is questionable "whether many .will not he almost inaudible. Should, this prove to be the case, the drawback will be a very serious one, and we call attention to it in the hope that, there is , yet time to obviate the difficulty, - The Dunedin correspondondent of the Grey River Argus writes :-r-A case is expfe6ted to come before the court on an early day, in which one of our : leading citizens, "a man of no ordinary repute," will be defefadant. During the heat of the late contest for. daversham/ this person rushed into one of the big stores with the view of getting one of the employes, who had a vote for Caversham,, to come out to the poll. There were ope or two, persons in the store at the time, and one who was giviDg an .order, said to the high and mighty one he had better wait a little; and another bystander, a well-known confectioner and publican, said a few ,word;S about " Tou Macandrew character." Whereupon- the individual of repute rushed upon the little pub., shoved his fist in his face, and said, "If it weye not for my position, you — - -—- —— , I would twist ." . Your readers can fill up the blanks with their favorite expletives. Of course, there was a scene, but no- more was done. The pub.- feeling himself aggrieved, placed the matter io the hands of bis lawyer, and the ; matter ends, in the meantime, . The following notice appeared lately in the Wellington Post, signed by the proprietor — " Owing to the serious advance in the price of paper, the free list is unavoidably suspended from Monday next. The publisher has received orders to issue no iriore'papers without payment." Referring to tbis notice the Thames Advertiser says:. — " To those people who regularly pay for their papers the above notice will require some explanation. In Wellington, as in other places, there are persons who jtbink their positions entitle them to the right of a free paper. In some of the Provinces of the South this evil became so great that the free lists were done away with entirely, but they seem to have been kept up in the Empire City until the present month. The cost of paper has now become so.. serious an item that the proprietor of the Post has cut off all the ' dead-heads' at one blow. But ho, has been kind to them in giving a few days' notice, in a most public manner, that he was compelled to stop their paper. We may mention a little incident in connection with 'dead-heads ' which will probably surprise even our Wellington contemporary. We have long discontinued the 4 free list,' but a few weeks ago our publisher discovered that the Provincial Government of this Province had not, through a clerical omission, paid for a. copy which , one of the departments was receiving. An account was furnished, but as * economy ' is the watchword of the department, the claim was disallowed, and the' paper stopped. It was, however, politely suggested to us that we might possibly lose something if , we stopped the paper ! I* is needless to say that we did immediately stop the papnr; but as a paper is considered absolutely' necessary for the business of the department, one of the Government officers carries his own copy down to the Government Buildings, and presents it to the impecunious Provincial authorities each morning ! The fact is that the present price of paper will not admit of ( ' free lists,' and if one person has a right to po placed on such a list, then clearly every advertiser haa an equal claim." Tub Inangahua Herald is informed that three shifts of men are steadily employed at the Ajax mine sinking the stfaft; which it is intended to push on{ with all possible despatch; and, if necessary, for the purpose of proving tbe reef, it will be continued to a depth of 300ft. However, •the indications already met with are very satisfactory, evidencing that a sufficient body of payable stone for a lengthened term of operations is available without its being necessary tp carry the shaft - at, present to any great depth. ... For remainder of news. see four tfc page.. ■. ' ' ' * t •.' •-'• '■ i*. -■•'! -•"■-' i! '' '- '" " ' ''

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||^y' - As an illußtration of the turn of tht £1 y I lide, the Peah Downs Telegram state* a large squatting firm on the Darling - ' /Downs reduced its liabilities with a bans 4*%e. other day by paying off in one sum yOMS,OOb. • -$-* - WhAt, the true gentleman does. The fc oth-e^day, in the heat of the moment, Mi Q'fcopften, in the Melbourne County Court; said to the judge what was insulting and unjust. The judge, moved apparently both by the remark and by the silently-expressed sympathy of the Court, was affected to tears. Mr O'Loghlen made a full apology, and accused himself of the wrong done to a Judge whose honor was unsullied. His Honor, with equal candour and thoroughness, accepted the reparation, and prayed Mr O'Loghlen to dismiss the matter from his mind, There was also, it seems, a gentle human nature in the spectators, for they applauded the scene. - Copyright in Telegrams —An important case, affecting the copyright in the European telegrams was decided on Thursday in the Equity Court, by Mr ♦Justice Molesworth, The proprietors oi The Argus, sought to restrain the proprietor, of the Geelong Evening Times from republishing the^ telegrams transmitted from Europe to this country for the Associated Press by Router's Telegram Company. The defendant did not deny having copied the telegrams, and having done bo without contributing anything towards the expense of procuring them; but it was argued, on his behalf, that information appearing in a newspaper could not be the subject of copyright; that an injunction ought no more to be granted in respect to these telegrams than in reference to a paragraph about a fire; and that at all events the injunction could only apply to past telegrams, it could not include telegrams not yet received, and the materials for which were not yet in existence. In giving judgment his Honor said:— Tbis is an application for an injunction to restrain interference with a peculiar kind of property, originating from the peculiar circumstances of this country. By means of telegraphs spread round the world, we have the power of getting within a very short time intelligence from the greatest possible distance, and that intelligence is necessarily procured at very considerable expense, as telegraphic charges must be imposed to compensate for the existence of the telegraph lines. Thus there are now means by which, from day to day intelligence can be received with the greatest possible celerity, and the obtaining of that information is attended with very considerable expense, and bo far as a person who obtains the information can be said to have & property from the expenditure of money, tbat property is purchased here. On the other hand, persons of the class of newspaper proprietors, when they have received intelligence in this way, hope to make a profit to compensate them for the expense incurred, that profit arising from the increased circulation of the paper containing this peculiar kind of information which tbey are in a position to disseminate. That profit would he destroyed —at all events much impaired-— if other newspaper proprietors, who did not share in the expenses, had the same facilities to disseminate the information to the public. This is a kind of property which a peculiar state of society has brought into existence for the first time. The plaintiffs have a clear property in that for which they give a price, and from which they obtain a profit, and the defendants appear to have been habitually interfering with that property by publishing, without paying for . it, that which they bave procured by a large outlay. This inquiry to the property is going on from day to day, and it appears probable that if not prevented,, the defendant will continue to interfere with the plaintiff's property. Habitual injury of property from day to day is a good ground for the interference of a court of equity to protect it. There is no reason for requiring an action at law; the defendant admittedly interferes with what j- is^ legitimately the plaintiff's, and which does not belong to him at all. I shall grant the injunction as prayed. I have some doubts whether the plaintiffs will attain thei? object by the form of this injunction. They have made an arrangement by which two other papers publish the same telegrams simultaneously with The Argus, and it is' frpm one of these papers that the defendant copies. However, tbat is a matter for the plaintiffs to consider, and if they are satisfied with the form of the injunction, I shall say no more about it. Injunction granted. Costs to be costs in the cause. — Australasian. The great excitement of the period in America is a murder by a man named Fosterl All the American papers team with it. The account of the hanging 0 j the poor wretch occupied columns p'. ' ij. New York papers, and the sale \ h at day Snrr. CBd T d ' e9 '^ated at 250,000 dole. The action for the reease of the prison er WBB remarkable, even the murdered man , 8 wife petitioning for aft r ßt ' *' fl » Special sermons were preached > : his ignominious death in various churches. The shocking absence of horror at the| committal of a brutal crime, which was manifested in the case of James Fish, seemed to ba doubled in intensity in the pleadings on behalf of this man Foster. The Alta California, alluding to

i the subject, says:— Here is a case of alow ■»• brute who grossly insulted a lady in a car, [ . and who made threats to a gentleman who '>■;. came to her protection, and afterward, as 'J he left the car, killed him. Yet for thia miserable wretch, this almost unparalleled » * villain, all New York if stirred up, its great lawyers and ex-Governors besiege Governor Dix to [spare the miscreant's life, and even his very mournful widow makes an inkstand of her eye, and tear- > fully asks mercy for the fellow who exi ercised none. Are our American people i all going mad ? Ia Foster to become the illustration of his own theory, that mur- > der is played out? Not because of i vengeful feeling towards the murderer, 1 but because we feel the necessity of some protection of human life against the knife, the pistol and the bludgeon of the assassin i ' do we protect against this general false I sympathy and maudlin sentiment which are sweeping away every guard and protection for human life which the laws, and i a public opinion once, undebauched by i false theories and shallow arguments, provided. Either erase from the statutes ■ capital punishment for crime, or else when the crime has been proven apply the penalty without favor and without this shameful tampering with justice.