At the Middlesex sessions^ April 25 Jameß Skeffiag toa was sentenced to nine mon the' imprisonment as a rogue and vagabond — his twenty-fourth conviction for a similar offence. The culprit eaid that he was tbe father of three detectives, three jockeys, atd three daughters, all in the service of persons of the highest respectability, A publican in Sydney has been committed for trial for manslaughter, haviDg allowed a man to drink till he' died. Sydney Smith once said a certain defect io the railway system would not be remedied till a bishop had beep burnedi A bishop was nearly burned, acd th£ evil wag remedied. A. fa < p al>li cans hanged— or what 'wpuld7 be worse for tbem,— -put to hard labor—for seliit»2 poiaoMbadrihks, wbald p'eHiM 1 hkVe a similar effect; * f
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 169, 18 July 1881, Page 1
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