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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1281, 23 February 1883, Page 2

The s.s. VVairarapa arrived in the Bay this afternoon, at 4 o'clock. Arabi Pasha and his colleagues, a party numbering in all 68 persons, were expected to reach Colombo on the 10th December, The Ceylon Government has received information from the Home authorities that Arabi is to be allowed £BOO per annum, and his colleagues from £4OO per annum upwards. The Government is authorised to obtain residences for them at Colombo, where the exiles are to be located free from supervision,, their parole being taken that they win lot' return to Egypt under pain of being shot. The 300,000 Mohommedaas at Ceylon are slightly excited by the news that Arabi and the other exiles are to reside In Ceylon, The most singular document dealing with public money haa reached us from Chrjgf. church. It purports to be a “ receipts and expenditure of the HospMV and Charitable Institutions under the control of ths Hospital and Charitable Aid Board of Canterbury, for the six months ending December 31st, 1882. The statement seta forth that the total receipts of the various institutions was £2491 Is lOd, and the expenditure in connection with them, £8917 10s 3d. In the case of the Ashburton Home the receipta were nil, and the expenditure amounted to £667 Ids 4d, Not the slightest indication is given as to how the excess of expenditure was provided for, and ths only conclusion that is left is that the management knows a trick or two in financing ot which even the smartest bankers have hitherto been rant. | The following paragraph from the Sydney Morning Herald, shows that disputes between judge and counsel are not confined to New Zealand I—A novel point was raised during the hearing of a ease before Mr Justice Field and the former legal member of council, Sir Fitsjsmos Stephen, namely, the liroper course for a barrister to pursue when le has sarcastic remarks addressed to him b* a judge. Mr Vaughan Williams was addressing the Court, when the judge interrupted him by intimating “very strongly' 1 that the Court had made up its mind. Tne following conversation, according to a report in the Daily Telegraph, ensued :—"' Mr V, Williams understood from that that his lordship was of opinion that he had occupied too much time.’ Mr Justice Field t ‘On, dear i no I You have only kept us an hour and a ! half. 1 Mr V. Williams, 'I scarcely know I how to deal with a remark of that kind.' | Mr J ustice Field ; • Oh, go on I We have four more hours to sit.’ Mr V, Williams: • I was going to say that I hardly know how to deal with sarcasm coming from a judge. The ordinary way is to meet it with the same weapon ; but of course that would not be respectful on the part of an advocate towards a judge.’ The learned counsel then ceeded with his argument. ” Trading in England has not yet advanced beyond those tactics which early colonial traders used to pursue towards the gutless Maoris. Charles Thoroughgood wu recently arrested on a charge of obtaining money by fraud, the complainant stating that defendant had offered him ten barrels of grapes for £3 os. The offer was accepted and the barrles were brought to prosecutor’s house, where one barrel was opened and ite contents found as represented, when the money for the whole lot was paid. Upon' opening the other nine barrels they were found to contain bricks, atones, and oyster shells, and the result was that the base swindler with the deceptive name, and fraudulent practices was arrested, tried, convicted, and sentenced to one month’s hard labour within the prison walls. Our telegraphic columns of the 10th (eaye the “N. Z. Times") contained an item to the effect that the Union Insurance Company have issued a fire policy on which the pre-', mium amounts to £lOl6 Ils. It may inter* est our readers to know that the South British Fire and Marine Insurance Company have issued a marine policy with a premium of £3527 10s, on which the Government stamp duty of £42 was paid.

The number of acres in hops in the Nelson district this year is estimated to be 529. From these It is reckoned (says the Nelson Mail) that in the event of the blight being kept under and everything going right up to the time of picking the yield may be put down at 12001bs to the acre, giving a total of 634 8001bs. The beer duty lust year (£58,600) was paid on 90,154 hogsheads brewed in the Colony, the estimated quantity of hops used being 360,6161 bs. Supposing the amount brewed during the current year to be the same, and the yield of hops to be correctly given above, there would he left for tram this district alone no lest* than after supplying sufficient for all. the ies in the colony.

The Wairarapa Standard thus describes a levee held by •• the King " at Masterton ; "This sight is one that is seldom witnessed in this part of the Colony, situate as we are so far from Royalty. Seated between two ladies (who occasionally wipe the perspiration from his brow with a towel) he receives the homage of his loyal subjects in kingly style : nods majestically to those presented to him ; and occasionally engages in conversation with them ; and also takes a friendly glass of the waipero, of which there is plenty The Royal Chamber was filled to overflow, ing during his Majesty's stay | every door, window, and aperture being crowded with anxious faces to get a glimpse of him. This, evidently, was not so pleasing to him as expected, for about ten o’clock the order was given to his alde-deeamp to have his carriage m readiness, and in a quarter of an hour after the royal party drove away to Te Ore Ore.” Mr Preston, author of “ Unclaimed Money," has startled Londoners by an. pouncing that the magnificent pile of buildlegs known as the Palaeo ef Jus.ts’e, which the Queen opened on December 4, has been mainly raised with the surplus interest of suitors’ money, section 6 of the Courts of Justice Buildings Aet, 1865, giving power to apply £1,000,000 from the Surplus Interest Fund for thia purpose. Mr Preston asserts, and without fear of contradiction, that no leas than £75,000,000 are in the Chancery Funds, the number of accounts being 35.545. A hundred years ago it was £'J>oo,ooo, and 8285 accounts.