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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 165, 10 July 1878, Page 2

-. The follbwiug |s tbe evjdencs"|g|vgh by Mra ' E. Hope at the inquest ,on "the. body of fief . daughter Kathleeu who was burnt to death last Monday week : - "I live at Mahakipawa. I am wife of E. Hope. I was at home on the morning of the' lst 'July last. Tho . chimney in the .house I OMuf^ejd'hadJbeeu on fire on the previous Saturday, "bnt I bad put jt out. Iwas roused up on the morning the Ist July by a great crash;, the roof ofmy house had fallen in. The house waa „ oh *• fire.: t opened the bedroom ; dqor* the| flames apd • smtike drove me $ack. J^herej was only a very< small window.' iti qaywbedroom. I called^Katie, my eld£st?gh*i/now; with me; she. tried to help mfejjtq 88,ve< the! two little children. I ran agaifist^sonratbinn' J oil the floor in the bedroom. I. found, i^ was! , my little boy; I picked him up, the window,. and -threw him o'utsii|a!<rty t&V grass. I then felt something 'else on the floor; it was Katie, who had fallen down insensible. She was rpjlsed up, J: suppo/if, %i pain of fire, and; trie^. with meito^ruWiuto the other room jto md my youngeajpgirj,. Kathleen. ;We cbuid7.not reach be*»~Katfe again ;fell down insensible. E dljagged{ h*eV -oat through the fire <£ear?of the^buildipg. £l had notbing on bjit iay; nigb t-dress. picked. '- up i tbe j two' <&ildren' 'oisfcaide the ; bouse, andf -them: td'^ Mr -Chant's. By- this time eveirylhin'gf f^*«i bjirnt to: the ; ground!;/ I had ■ take'ri^preij cautions fa' day prHfro before 'foroakg w»e! ijchimney as 1 '-thought/ secure.; -- 1 ' cannot' imagine, how' the firel 'originated;:-- On that; night ;i had ho fire in"the houa'e, for we, hjjidj only *^e£. wood, and we did not. try fo flight; any flee.V :I waajip myself on theojofiiingjjfj 'ihe litjl, spppo/e abont 3 or tbe' "ntornipjj;, [..There was at tbat tinie nd sign of' fij-e.jThe'wirid was rising. I wenttobe^agait*,! -and if ell asleep." I was roused by 'the cra'ibf and the roar o£(he fire. Tbe "chimney was? builjt of -Wood, tbe fireplace lined with^bricksl set in clajrj; Myself and tbe tjoree* pbildren' were in the hotfse that night,''b^byyitt heri own, bed, and Katie and Kathleen within c inj my bed.Vall in the same room." f f : The other day in reporting a cassTwhica bad come before Mr. Justice Johnston in tbe Court, Timaru, the Soafft Canteribury Times made the learned Judge, -in ad?jdressing one bf tbe'counsel. v to.Bayi " Kibo'sbt Mr.- I —." What the Jadge' really ; did'aar was, " Cvi bono?"'&6. IThe readera of tbat paper .were, of course,, greatly, jwjrprised., tbat; such slang should emanate from .ajegal digr : . nitary noted for his.gopdffense. *;Tbe Judge,' too, was not ,too well. pleased at thoi/'ibull."of our contemporary, and ,t<jok occasion:, to comment upoa i.t in ,his, humqrous. style. ...He paid be supposed" tbad the '-fiwjfc Canterbury iTimes had made use of language", which was | common in the society in ; which those con- | nected with it moved. ..' He was not acqu^inti ed with the word ; but he supposed that it was of Turkish origin. The following paragraph ia from tbe N. Z. Times of Monday :,t-A meeting of civil ger-... vants will ■be lieid 1 at the Royal Hotel tbia afternoon at half-past four o'clock, to corW „ aider what: steps:should be: taken: with .respect to recent cases of- misconduct on tbe part of some clerks employed ini the. Govern.- ; i ment Buildings;-.i;i::}.!--,-r.; •/-' y.iqiO 7-^,1 ,,-.,.;. . it is said that the (^mefle^firidingl that: ; California is becoming too hot for them, are | looking to the colonies with a.view of itJirning I i tba tide tbis way. 1

%^e|take<-tnl?^llovtieg^m th§|wess LCofeft! Titt&g-jmth re^ardpo the!iMnsl' '.question winch ottr contemporaries 'tap diiK cassfrigv nbim ii^Meiaef^^provlneial is Fsap&rfor to^.tfie c^ntyja^stedi, we have but rlittlfe to Bt&fiyffeih od-^eiperieiise; olboth^ tfie Shswei* mast bein the^hegative.v 4 No one-, who watched the miserable farce at playing .at Government here, when we had a Superintendent, a little Parliament with a Speaker and Executive, Ministry and Opposition, would wish to return to the old order of j things. Compared wi^r that ridiculous body ?: the County Council ris^uccegsfulfindeef. fi; His Excellency Sir "William" 'Jervois ife-*' turns to South Australia by the 3.5. Luaitania. His son, a lieutenant in^the Royal Engineers, , will act as his aide-de-camp; and Mr Snow, a barrister, as private secretary. •A contemporary furnishes the following receipt for getting rid of horse flies: -Get v four-horse power engine erected in the back, of the mansion, run shafting in every roon, is®mgate<jksa the engine aforesaid by belting, :#meajr- the^wheels with treacle, and set the *engfrie^oing. The flies being attracted by the tredcle on the fly wheels, will light on them, and the wheel revolving rapidly they wjljjbe got rjd.tf.Vrhis kAmost .efficaciops remedy, anqt!il|prodneri|l flal^fey saigas black Sfjf r|nt jarM Jf fW I **Jsthe San Francisco NetßrLetl<u&&i April 13, there appears an article which concludes jwfetrthese words :-«*ln New Zealand, Sir Geprgi Grey, among other vagaries is attempting to introduce manhood suffrage. A Uttle eSpeilence,o£Affieri9an politics, and an "insight asjtp.how are carried on in .thiftiountryibfbuldcp^ him to change his opinion in favor of existing laws an= the subject. > It has l truly/ been- remarked that a spirit of insuhbrdioalron- is in '..the world. &t.the>present #h}e/a,i*a\the wayto meet the danger, is cot io abandon our posts, 'as the manner of some •has'h^eh/hurto'tiold \ the.fort^till alldafiger'^ past:* y- \_ \- „ ,\ From. lSJlhto, W7 ,abou£ forty million.! eet of ilmfeef- filkv* Be'drcu't'hy's'aWmillera out of the Southland forest, whi'e I hut £4878 has been returned to the State. The royalty (says the Dunedin Star) charged is unquestionably too light.