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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 42, 15 February 1876, Page 2

Constables may take a hint from the • following: — A police constable in giving his evidence in the Christchurch Supreme Court stated that after he had arrested a certain prisoner he read the warrant to him and cautioned him in the usual manner. His Honor the Judge inquired what he meant by the usual manner, to which the constable replied that he told the prisoner that anything he said .would be given in evidence against him. His Honor : You had no. business to say anything of. the kind. A. constable's duty is to hold his tongue, and if anything important is said by a prisoner the constable should take it down as soon as he can. . If a constable says anything at all it should be this:-—" You need not say anything unless you please; but remember, if you do say anything, it may be used in evidence against you." The following is an extract from a Timaru telegram of the 2nd instant :— The low prices of grain, and the high rate of wages, make farmers' prospects' gloomy. Fifteen pence a bushel is offered for oats, which will not recoup the outlay. Considerable loss has also been sustained through the late rains beating down the crops and delaying harvesting. *J The InangahuA Times remarks there is rather keen competition goiDg on at the present time between the local butchers at Reefton, tbe result of which is that a considerable reduction has been made on tbe ' all round charges,' a fact that has been bailed with due satisfaction by consumers. The same generous spirit also animates the baking trade, and if the infection would only spread to several other departments of trade the domestic jubilee would be complete. A New York stone-cutter received tbe following epitaph from a German to be cut. upon tbe tombstone of bis wife : — Mine wife, Susan, is dead; if she huve life till next Friday she'd been dead shuat two weeks f As a tree falls co must it etac,