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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 225, 3 October 1879, Page 2

BB?^. »Rgl& ™» ■«i_| [_: j- im iwiin-r . ■ .v.m. |, M ,— , Says the " Loafer in the Street," in the Christchurch Weekly Presa.— la connection with the Canterbury Sunday threepenny donation, a good atory comes from a church not very many miles from Christchurch. Four young gentlemen attended divine service, and discovered that there was only one solitary threepenny bit among the crowd. One of the churchwardens being absent, the bag was taken round by a parishioner who, though doubtless a devout Christian, had not that repose of manner which stamps the caste of tho Vere de Vere family. On his coming to the quartette above spoken of, the nearest to him dropped in the whole available bullion of the crowd, saying in a stage aside, " That's for the lot of us." " And a precious mean lot you must be," said the temporary collector, "if you can't part a penny a piece for a seat in a church like this." Tableau. No wonder (says the NZ. Times) the Government were anxious to get rid of Mr Saunders at any price, and even to promise " consideration " to all and sundry who would contest the late election with him, and did not scruple to telegraph to outsiders and make them offers that were simply disgraceful. But Mr Saunders was too much for them and their evil machinations, and returns to the House by a large majority like an avenging Nemesis. The member for the Cheviot ia not likely to forget the dark and dirty way in which the Ministry tried to have him shuffled off his mortal coil— politically speaking—and yesterday he fired off the first small gun of what will probably prove to be a heavy cannonade before it is finished. He gave notice— simply and quietly, but with the calmness which presagea the storm— that he would next sitting day ask the Government whether the now notorious Whitmore cum Inglis telegram was franked, as on public service; or whether it was paid for as a private telegram. The answer to this will have to be given, however bitter it may be for the Ministry to swallow questions of this kind, and will probably throw a good deal of light on the way in which the late elections have been worked. Other questions of a similar character are likely to follow, for it is notorious, at least as a rumor, that the wires have been strangely manipulated by the Government party during the late elections. A young man named William Turley has been charged in Sydney with mutilating a young lady named Agnea Harley, with whom he had been keeping company. From her statement at the Police Court lfc appeared that Turley went to see Miss Harley, and had an altercation with her at the door. Miss Harley thus describes what followed :— I heard something rattling in his pocket, which I took to be a revolver, and that iqstaut he opened a razor and, held, it over my head. I could see that It was a bright instrument, but I did not know what it was. Then he put one hand on my forehead, forcing my head back and my chin up, and he cut my throat. I did not shriek, but I pushed him, and he fell. I ran as far as the dining-room, qnd fell witn my head on the floor ; and I recollect him cutting me again with the razor. He cut my chin then. I remember it distinctly. The third time he severed my ear. I struggled with him, staggered to my feet, and got into the street. Never saw him after. Am atiil a patient at the Infirmary, and am going back there now. I havo another ent on my arm and on my breast which Ido not remember receiving. The prisoner was committed for trial.