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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume X, Issue 262, 4 October 1875, Page 2

The Dune Jin Star says— "A Past Master" writes to us to the effect that notwithstanding it is handsomely illuminated, the congratulatory address td the Prince of Wales adopted by the District Grand Lodge should, for the credit of the craft in Otago, be withheld and another substituted for this compound of had grammar and nonsense. In the Wellington Police Court, last week, Mary Parris applied for a protection order against her husband, Andrew Parris, on the grounds of repeated cruelly. She had only been married a few weeks; her husband was a fisherman; he was in the habit of punching her head and calling her a fool ; he used sometimes to call her so before they were married, but she took it to be love then; she didn't now; she loved him before they were married and for tweaty-four hours after, bv't after that she hated him and had ever since. His Worship dismissed the case, remarking that marriages ought not to be upset after only a week or two. Mr Bathgata (says the Otago Daily Times) made a very just : remark with i reference to the unlimited credit syst;tn the other day, in a eaae in which a man was ordered to pay for a ring which he bad purchased. The magistrate gave the purchaser fourteen days to pay, as he wished it to be understood that he was not prepared to enforce the law v.cry strongly ia esses of that kind, where the articles supplied were a luxury. It has often been suggested that the right of action for goods sold should be done away with altogether, so as to enforce immediate payment. Bets, which are simply •debts of honor, and of which payment cannot be enforced at law, are far more faithfully paid than trade debts; and possibly it might be found really to the advantage of the trader to place trad a debts on the same footing as regards remedy as bets. At present, it ta considered rather a fine thing to swindle a trader,, but it is excessively low to repudiate a gambling d6bt. If a change in the law effected a corresponding change in current morality, and resulted in its being thought a blackguard act to fail or delay to pay a trade debt, traders would have m reason to complain. In France, the thing has worked well : why not' here ?

Acaoantei from Paris epeefc of the stupid race after novelty which she ladies of that city are engaged in. " Something new" is the demand every feminine numb skull makes of her milliner,^ and no ino^t how. ugly she Jhing is if it ia v new,= there are always idiots to be found to wear it. Some of these silly women have tried with success to make themselves conspicuous : by wearing the plainest of clothing, even to hats of plaited grass, bat as ihey pay as much for these as for the roost gorgeous raioient, the dressmaker is the only gainer. A cynical journal happily observes that the Parisian nea should adopt sackcloth and ashes, 08 a fashion that ehould recommend itself to their reason, if not to their taste. The following items of Japanese news are from papers to band by the mail; — • " The, News reports that a Japanese, said to have been a lawyer connected with the Saibansho, made away with himself recently by cutting his throat, having first iqgicted two cross -pats', on his stomach. The story goes that bed ha been so "chaffed" by his acquaintances of late that bis life became in his opinion not worth having. — Two cases of suspended animation are oqentiqneJ. An Qaaka woman of eighty-nice years of age apparently died, but when the friends commenced to wash the body nest day, the old lady revived, and the funeral has been . postponed. The other case was that of an actor, who was enacting the part of the ghoat in a play, and who' fell from a property lantern in which he was placed. He was picked op for dead, but recovered before the preparations for interment were far advauced.'