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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 206, 22 October 1880, Page 2

1 At the Invercargill District' Court the other day, Judge Harvey said:— "l retire With great regret from the Bench. I may say it is a blow to aie, as I shall have to take up the cudgels once more and start in the practice of my profession. Whetherl may succeed in it or not is entirely in the womb of time, but after being away from practice for co many years I shall necessarily Btart again under great disadvantages. la this matter I cannot help feeling that I have not been treated with that consideration which an officer of my standing ought to be treated with and is entitled to receive. It may be that some other arrangements may be made, ijnd I hope they will be when I may again appear among you, but Ido not at present See much- probability of that." ! The Auckland Herald of Saturday last s'nys: — " c Miss Leaf, who is now plajing in Wellington, has received a telegram announc-. ibg to her. the pleasing intelligence tbat'Bh'e bias been selected as ono of: the members of the Lyster Opera Company, and she is requested to be in Melbourne by, the 30th of this month, when the necessary arrangements will be made for her first appearance. This is a further. Btep upward in the profession, u'pbn r which Miss Leaf deserves to be congratulated. ■ ' The following is from the Marlborough Express:— A little fact that will possibly be interesting to the community generally came to our knowledge: the other day. A lady in the neighborhood feeling dissatisfied with the lOd per, lb offered for her batter by the local .storekeepers, sent 141 b of it over to Wellington, .with the expectation of receiving a ibetter price. Butter, it api e«rs, however, has been selling in that city for 8d for Borne little time £kst, and' the Hlbs id question passed off for the grand sum of 7s. "Go farther and fare worse "is very applicable to this case. :. • ! : ■

The Parihaka correspondent of the AZ. TtWs writes, under date October 18, of the monthly nieetiug:— Your correspondent returned from Parihaka last night. There was a large attendance there, estimated at 2000 all told. Many Europeaus were present, including two ladies from New Plymouth. !A large qflanlity of provisions had been received from Hawera, the gift of Hone Pihana and his people. Mr Parris waß there, and bis visit, is considered significant of an attempt to come to terms with Te Whiti. The latter spoke for an hour. He made his usual assertions of the destruction of the European dominion over the natives, and glorification of the twelve tribes of Israel, which are the Maoris He refused to consider the prisoners as released, because be did not Bend for them to return. He said the Government tried to release the prisoners for its own ends, not for the good of the Maoris ; like a hawk who, seeing a tui, caught in a snare, loosens the noose, and the bird falls to the ground, but the hawk docs not do this in order that he may release the tui, but tfrit he may eat it There 13 not the slightest; sign of submission to the lav/s, which are 6imp!y repudiated as European contrivances, and eousequeatly inoperative over the Maori race, Rain put an end to the meeting. When the limit of retrenchment in the public service will be reached is extremely uncertain, for we (N.Z. Times) hear that the Government have but just at t their hands to the work, and mean to be thorough with it A list of the Civil Servants employed in every part of the colony, with the salaries they are receiving, is being prepared, to guide Ministers in the course of economy they have entered upon, Tberule will be to amalgamate offices wherflfer practicable, and at the same time, preserve efficiency. It is said that two more Magistrates of the Middle Islaud are to be dispensed with, while the position of Resident Magistrate for Wellington will, for the present, be filled by Mr Davy, but whether hia appointment will be permanent is yet an open question. The amalgamation of the Marine and Customs Departments, upon the basis formerly prevailing, will involve the retirement of Captain Johnston, the Secretary of the Marine Department, but, we understand, that he will have the option of accepting, at a reduced salary, the position of Nautical Adviser under the new arrangement. The office of Chief Clerk will, we understand, continue to be filled by Mr Wilson. After the recent performance on board the St Leonards in Wellington, the Post had the followiug paragraph s — However attractiv e realistic " Pinafore " performances •• on the water, with real rockets, guns, &c," may be, they are not altogether devoid of peril to the citizens. It was discovered this morning on opening Mr. Pearce's store in Willisstreet, that one of the " Pinafore rockets had descended on the iron roof and smashed right through it, exploding inside among the (foods, but, fortunately, without setting any thing on fire. The large hole left in the roof, however, admitted copious torreuts of rain, I which did considerable damage. An American paper publishes the followin g amusitfg incident concerning Mrs. Hardinge Britten : — " Dr. Tanner attended the lecture of Emtrid, Hardinge Britten yesterday morning (August 17). It was not known by the audience or the lecturer that he was present in the hall. Mrs. Britten, in closing her remarks on magnetism, referred to Dr. Tanner and the wonderful example he had given of will ovei* matter. She Asserted that the density of population, the magnetic influence of the multitude, and the aroma of food, made his feat possible in the city, while, if attempted in the keen air of the country and in solitude, the body would soon be exhausted by the vigorous and consuming oxygen. At the close of her remarks, a well-dressed, sharp-eyed man rose, and obtained permission to address a question to the speaker, who introduced himself as the subject of the lady's remarks. All eyes were turned in surprise upon Dr. Tanner, who said, 'If I had continued my fast in Clarendon Hall, without the aid of the air in the park, I could not have continued for 20 days. Indeed, the bracing air of the Minnesota prairie made it possible for me to continue 42 days at once without food. My experiment in this city ' vaa attended with far greater difficulty. Therefore, my experience is not in accordance with your theory of magnetic forces.' Mrs Britten did not attempt so sustain her theory. The doctor looked fresh and vigorous, and talked to many who surrounded him be- j fore he left the hall." | A wedding party at Levallois-Perret was brought to a termination by a terrible dis covery. After the marriage at the Maine and the service at church, the party met at a reitauraut for dinner and a dance in the evening. All went merrily as a marriage bell, or ball, uutil the bride became alarmed »t the sudden absence of her husband. He uraa searched for everywhere without success, und the mystery was only cleared up when *he went with her friends to her new home. J She then found that he had been there before her, had taken her dower of 60,000fr., which had been put into the corbcille, and had absconded with it. When, the discovery was made he was probably far on his way to Belgium. Temora is proving a veritable Tom Tiddler's ground to the favorites of fortune, who have been picking up nuggets from 34<.zg 12dwt 13gr to 12oz and lOoz. One party bunked, as the week's proceeds, 350z in nuggets, and handed each man £22 as his dividend, after all expenses had been paid. : Man that is married to a woman Uof many days and full of trouble. In the morning he draweth his salary, and in the evening behold it is all gone. It; is a tale that is told ; it vaniuhetb, and no one knoweth whither it goeth. He raiseth up clothed in the chilly garments of the night, and seeketh the somnolont paregoric wherewith to soothe the sufferings of his infant posterity. He becomelh as the horse or the ox, and draweth the ohariot of his offspring. He spendeth his shackles in the purchase of fine linen to the bosom of his family, yet he himself is seen at the gates of the city, with but one auspender. Yea, he is altogether wretched. A man without arms was brought before tbe London Magistrate recently for bigamy. The defence was that there could have been no puttiug the ring on by the husband (as enjoined in the Church Service) aDd also that he could not have given his wife his hand. This wan admitted, but the father of the first wife testified that she pub the ring on her knuckle and that the bridegroom "shoved it on with his teeth," « That," observed the judge, -" is not according to Ru brie." The bigamist, howerer, was acquitted on other grounds, the first wife having deserted him for seven years. At a concert at Pesth, Richard Sahla, the young violin virtuoso, who has been creating r great furore in Vienna, was playing the Paganini violin concerto, when in the midst of the first solo, owing to the intense heat, hia E string snapped. Any other artist would have lost all presence of mind and been completely put out, but Herr Sahla 1 quickly turned round, snatched a violin from one of the members of the Hungarian orchestra and to the utter astonishment of the immense audience played his concerto triumphantly through to the end. The violin which Herr Sahla took from the Gipsy was a very common one, and worth about two guides, or about four shillings.