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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1256, 23 January 1883, Page 2

The London correspondent of the Dunedin “Star” writes:—“Her Maienty in her Pi-ivy Council has before now had many important colonial appeals to decide, but none appear to have involved larger issues than the great New Zealand will case of Rhodes v. Rhodes, recently decided. It will be remembered that though the Lords of the Council ruled in favour of the appellant (Miss Mary Anne Rhodes), thereby upsetting the decision of the Supreme Court at Wellington, they directed that the costs of ali parties should be paid out of the estate. Three sets of solicitors were engaged, and the arguments lasted six days. The importance of the appeal, and the anxiety of the Government to give the petitions of colonial subjects due attention, is shown by the fact that, besides the four ordinary Judges, Lord Blackburn and Lord Watson attended the hearing. The costa incurred in England have dow been taxed, and amount to the good round sum of £2840. Mr Benjamin, Q.C., the appellant’s leading counsel, had 250 guineas on his brief, besides refreshers and consultation fees every day ; and the Attorney-General, acting for the next of kin, had a like sum. Tuere were also two junior counsel on each side, and the trustees paid 100 guineas tu counsel to watch the case on their behalf. The costs are in addition to those incurred in New Zealand, so that the lawyers seem to have had fully their share of the late Birney Rhodes’s £4,000,000. It may be interesting to mention that the fortunate litigant (Miss Mary Anne Rhodes) heard her case argued before she returned home, and had the honor of hunting with the Empress of Austria.” The scene in front and about the precincts of the Supreme Court building (says the Auckland Herald of the .Bth inst.) was of a very unusual kind. A crowd of people, a large proportion of whom were women, had gathered to see the prisoners “ brought in ” for trial. Even at the rear of the building there was a considerable number of people. The parapets of the terraces on the east and west sides were thronged. The cry every uuw and then “ here they come ” would produce a rush. The prisoners were brought to Court in three of Crowther's omnibuses. The policemen sitting on the front seats with the driver, and on the omnibus steps behind, attracted attention along the route from the gaol. There was also a two-horse cab, which was occupied by the female prisoners. The prisoners Priestly and Mrs Hamilton were the objects of this eager curiosity. The vehicles were beset when they stopped. There was a long procession of male prisoners from the omnibuses to the cells in double line and handcuffed. Priestley was very conspicuous, being well dressed in black cloth, with belltopper hat, and black kid gloves. Mrs Hamilton was also neatly Iressed in black, her hat being covered with crape. Both prisoners looked much better than when seen in public on previous occasions. They had lost much of their previous care worn aspect. There was no demonstration other than this eagerness of curiosity, But this was much too manifest. Even in Court several well-dressed women were to be seen wedged into the crowd of sight-seers, some of whom did not appear to advantage beside the clean white muslin of the female sensational fete, Even in the gallery there were several ladies. It would seem not to be a very laudable curiosity that could find gratiication in this way. A Kansas story is about three mice that rolled an egg down a stairway without breakage. One held the egg in his close embrace, while the others rolled hitn like a ball from one step to the other, always managing to -et him strike on his back, thus protecting the egg. How the man who told this lie got down the stairs is not known. Few Parisians are perhaps aware of what becomes of all the waste scraps of bread, or hat these are served up to them afresh in a liffereut form. All the fragments collected tn schools, in the gutter or in the heaps of •efuse, are sold to men called boulangers en oieun. The best pieces are dried in an oven and, when rasped, form rusks for soup. The tiore worthless pieces are pulverised and converted into bread-crumbs for garnishing hams or fish for frying. The smallest pieces >f bread are washed, pounded, mixed with aoney and peppermint, anti they re appear tS tooth-paste. We announced in our local colums yesterday, that Mr Archibald Forbes would appear on Monday night at Parnell and Boylan’s Hall. Elsewhere, a brief synopsis of Mr Forbes’s career is published, which, no doubt, will be read with interest. Mr Forbes’s lectures will be certain to attract large audiences, and for the convenience of hose who desire to obtain good seats, a box office fas been opened at Mrs A. M. Browne’s deposit ,ry, Gladstone road, where season seats may be seemed.

Mr S. C. Caulton, who is resigning his position of Manager of the Masonic Hotel, was to-day presented, by the employees of the establishment, with a very handsome locket, accompanied by an address, which was as follows : —“ We, the undersigned employees of the Masonic Hotel, beg to tender you our most cordial good wishes, which you have earned during your management, and beg as a token of the esteem in which we hold you, that you will accept the accompanying locket,—Charles Oscar Fischer, A. J. Thomas, Po .willow, E. W. Harney, E. Faram, Fr.ncis W. 8. Price, A. McKay.” Mr Fischer read the address, and Mr Caulton replied. Mr D. Page, the proprietor, was also present, and spoke in most eulogistic terms of the departing manager, as well as of his present stuff.

In reference to the proposed match between Captain Barry and Mr John Walker, the Wanganui Chronicle says : — “Mr Walker has sent a letter to the captain agreeing to pay the latter’s passage money to this port. He also stated that a deposit of £25 had been made with Mr Joseph Chadwick, which amount would be increased to £lOO on receipt of intelligence from Capt. Barry that he had deposited £25 with Mr H. Blundell, of the Evening Post newspaper or any other gentieman known to the Wanganui public.” Mr Grossman, Surgeon Dentist, announces that he may be consulted at Mrs Foster’s residence, Bright-street. Mr Grossman is stated to be a most accomplished dentist and introduces in hh profusion, i 1 the latest, inventions. W • fe.-l assured that he will have no <• casion to regret his short visit to Gisborne.

Mr A. Y. Ross in an advertisement in our columns thanks the electors for having for the tenth time elected him to a seat in the Gisborne School Committee.