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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1172, 11 October 1882, Page 2

New Zealand’s debt is computed at £56 4s 2d per head. New South Wales at only £2l 8s lOd.

The Queen will spend the coming winter at Mentone.

Presents of men-of-wur to Colonies sometimes turn out expensive ones. The Wolverene costs New South Wales £6,000 per month.

Some of the “ Austral’s ” cargo of frozen meat fetched as high as 7|d per lb in London.

The Corporation of the City of London have resolved to present the freedom of the City to Sir Beauchamp Seymour and Sir Garnet Wolseley ; the former will be presented with a sword, and the latter with a gold casket. Lieut.-Gen. Sir Henry Wylie Norman, K.C.8., C.1.E., Bengal, is likely to be left in command of the British forces at Alexandria. “ Mokau ” Jones is in Auckland. He has just succeeded in getting a lease of 40,000 acres of Native Land at Mokau.

The Taranaki Iron Company intend resuming operations at an early date. In 1881 there were 2,182,226 head of cattle, and 35,591,946 sheep in New South Wales. Mr Belt, the sculptor, having sued his defumers, has been allowed by the Judge, Baron Huddlestone, to show whether he is a good sculptor or not by making a bust of the Judge in open court.

A London paper has discovered a great want in New Zealand. It hears we have “ a great opening for sensible clergymen, several incumbencies being vacant.” The adjective is, to say the least, an ambiguous one.

The Corporation of Brighton have brought an action against the “ Lancet,” on the advice of Mr Grantham, Q.C., in consequence of the very damaging attack on the drainage of that watering-place which it recently published. Having very often stayed and lived at Brighton, we believe the place is at least as healthy as any other town on the coast. For one week the death rate was only 17'6 in 1,000, and of two deaths from fever, one was “ imported.” In the Court of Appeal, the Master of the Rolls refused to allow an appeal in Prestbury Ritual case to be heard before the long Vacation. It was stated that Lord Penzance was unable to transact any business in the Arches Court, because the proceedings raised the question whether he had a right to sit at Westminster or not.

Charles Soutar, who is awaiting his trial on a charge of violating the sepulchre at Dunecht, will be tried before the High Court of Justiciary within 60 days unless the Procurator-Fiscal can show cause why the case should not be tried in Edinburgh. The Dowager Countess of Crawford aud Bulcarres, accompanied by her unmarried daughters, will visit Dunecht in the course of the next fortnight. At the Central Criminal Court, London, before Mr Justice Stephen, William Mortens, a German compositor, was tried for having published in the “ Freheit ” newspaper, a number of articles approving of the murders of Lord Frederick Cavendish and Mr Burke, libels which the prosecution insisted were published for the purpose of inciting evil disposed persons to commit assassination. The Judge, in summing up, said there could be no doubt that such articles were incentives to acts of bloodshed and murder. The jury found the prisoner guilty, and sentence was postponed.

The London Globe says that the effusive Yankees who express themselves horror stricken by the number of evictions in Ireland had better look at home. If the New York Herald may be believed, no fewer than 16,000 families, or, say’ 60,000 human beings, were last year turned out of their homes, in the city of New York alone. This was done, too, not after long warning, nsin the case of Irish evictions, but at two hours’ notice. Nor dip the evicted tenants owe heavy arrears of rent. The law of New York State empowers landlords to give two hours’ notice of ejectment the moment any due instalment of rent is not paid, and this power is, it appears, very generally used. There is certainly one advantage in the system ; it prevents the accumulation of arrears. But we doubt whether the Irish farmj ers would much relish the substition of I the American procedure for that of the base and bloodthirsty Saxan. The curious thing is that they should tolerate on the other side of the Atlantic a state of things which they certainly would not endure for a moment on this. ”