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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 46, 22 February 1877, Page 4

A prisoner was being tried for sheep stealing, and he was asked by the presiding judge, an Irish chief baron, what he bad to Bay in defence. " Ab, shure, your Lordship, didn't meaelf and me fawther, and me grandfawther all vote for your lordship when you put up for Tipperary ? And begorra didn't we carry your lordship to the head of the poll ? " •* True, true ! " murmured the judge, and was visibly affected by the reminiscence. He looked kindly at the prisoner at the bar, aod. in summing op directed the jory to acquit him, though the evidence was very strong; for a conviction. The jury felt the pressure upon them, and the foreman, in giving the verdict, said, " Well your lordship, I suppose we must cell him "hot guilty;" but faith, your lordship, there'll not be a sheep at ail left in the country." To which his lordship complacently replied, "Ab, never mind, gintlemeo, — nevermind the mutton ! Acquit him, and ate beef/ Aod acquitted he was. Tbe Scotsman has a long article on New Zealand, from which we quote a few lines of the beginning and a few of; 'he conclusion: — " Macaulay's New Zsalander" is ooe of the most familiar, if not among the oldest, friends of the reading public. He has so often beeu marched out in prophetic anticipation to take that meditative stand of his on the ruins of London Bridge, that he may fairly be considered as : worn out in the service, and entitled to a place, od* the shelf alongside the Oldest Inhabitant and a few other veterans of the same kidney. But the New Zsalander of the present, unlike his venerable descendant, is full of vigour and youth. -He, has a knack, as moat, juveniles have, of speculating on his ttiture greatness ; but he is also of ' opinion that he is a person of no small importance even at the present moment, ; and that this opinion is not -'altogether: witbo'st warrant he annually proves. by* a great array of facts and figures. . .- 'Still it may be questioned whether' tbe New Zealand Government and, Legislature have not gone a little tool fast in putting on tbe Bhoulders of the* people such a load of taxation. Enter-: prise is an excellent quality, especially, -in a new country -that needs opening up,: but too much enterprise in the matter; of railways and kindred projects has led; to the virtual insolvency, or at least toi the open repudiation ;of their liabilities,! of many large States of the American I Union. New Zealand is not at ail likelyj to follow such an example, certainly,; but it is clear that her citizens will; have to fight hard before they cani bring the finances of the colony into a* healthy condition.

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