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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 144, 18 June 1881, Page 1

In the year 1880 America issued seventy ! patents to women. Sixty-nine of -them I were for front-door keyholes : that blow foghorns when fumbled with the wrong key. . At Timaru, in his charge to the 1 Grand Jury, speaking: in reference to a case of- i arson, Mr . Justice Johnston is reported to ! have said: — "This case proved that the ! Grand Jury Was"; not so useless as it was ! made to appear, but a tribunal which was of- i extreme Utility in a free- country. One of ; those things which the English people boast most of is that in their country the' ; ; educated classes of society, from the laborer to the moat responsible person of property and intelligence, take an active part in the ; administration of justice. There might •be I complications at times, but the system ad- ; mitted of modification. By it the private' i persons assisted with the Judges, in the, 1 administration of justice, jftid their assembP ing together was, to His Honor's mind; one" !of the moat laudible institutions they had, although ita .application was attended- with ■inconvenience, and a great many cases were submittedtto them which ought never to go 'before, them at all. Some of the freest - 'countries in the world were acknowledge ling the advantages of what he might- call' .two classes combined to some extent in the' ipi-ftctical and personal responsibility in : the r ladministrationj of . the country. ! He wa^ notjoiie of thoae personal who thoaght the 'Graiid' ' |JCijy;one ot those absurd- instittttjofts^vh!^'