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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume X, Issue 180, 21 July 1875, Page 2

Horticultural Societies, we observe by our exchanges, are holding meetings in other parts of the colony. When is our own going to meet nd decide upon a programme for the next show ? The Eesidenfc Magistrate gave judgment this morning in the ease of Blotoen y. Flowers, in which Mrs Flowers of Wakapuaka sued her son, a, widower, for £46, being the balance due for the maintenance of three children for four years and ten months. At the adjourned hearing this morning defendant did not appear, and plaintiff stated that rather than proceed with the case she would agree to a judgment for £20. Judgment accordingly. A swamp containing about 90,000 acres, and situated in the "VVaikato district, is to be drained by a company which has bought the land. There was some unusually bright lightning in the S.W. last Monday night, says the "Wanganui Herald of the 15th instant. It was of the description very aptly termed "bulls-eye lightning," and was dazzling despite the bright moonshine. Says the Wangauui Herald : — A most amusing announcement was made in the Eesident Magistrate's Court today, that the defendant in one of the cases had previously been ill with the measles, and now all his witnesses were laid down with the same complaint. Under this peculiar " measly " position, it was stated that the case had been settled out of court — a fortunate thing, one would think, for all parties concerned. Of all the extraordinary resolutions passed by any deliberative body, we (Dunedin Evening Star) do not recollect one that will, come up to the resolution which the Makarewa Eoad Board, at the instance of a wondrously wise member named Trumble, passed lately, and which reads as follows :— That the sou or son-in-law of any member of this Board, or son or son-in-law of any officer employed by this Board, such parties aforesaid, their tenders not to be accepted foc^iay work required to be done by the Makarewa Koad Board ; the aforesaid resolution no(j to be rescinded without one month's notice, and a full meeting of the Board! The Marlborough Express, m reference to the railway buildings at Blenheim, says:— We have been informed that the buildings in course of erection are only temporary, and are inclined to believe that is quite correct, although not in the sense our informant meant, but inasmuch as the piles for supporting some of them are of sawn white pine, which can scarcely be considered permanent. The cost of these buildiugs will, we fear, very shortly be found to be anything but temporary. What does the Christchurch Press mean by the following remarks, made in connection with the proposal of ths New Zealand Times to print Hansard! Nothing personal we hope :-— We dare- , say the reports are disagreeable to some. Rats, modest creature?, delight in privacy, and prefer to paas unnoticed as they scurry across the floor of the House. To a turncoat, t Hansard is an unmitigated nuisance. When for example, a member joins in a vote of want of confidence in a Government expreesly on the ground that the financial proceedings of the Treasurer ore bringing ruin on the conntry, and a few weeks afterwards, not having been invited to inks part in the new Administration, assists in pottinggthia incompetent and disastrous Treaftirer back into oifica aijein, it is no doutt an unpleasant reflection to him that his former speech remains in irrevocable print. I Mr Nees, formerly of the Steam Joinery Works, Christchurcu, baa constructed a machine which cuts railway sleepers into lengths, and adzes them in readiness for the rails at one operation.