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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2413, 10 December 1880, Page 4

Crime lias been steadily decreasing in Victoria for some years past. Taking the years 1869, 1874, and 1879, it is seen that for the first period I person in every 28 of the population had been arrested ; for the second period the statistics show 1 in 33 ; and for the third 1 in 86. By letters received by the mail, we understand that Mr Peacock, late of the Auckland Telegraph Department, and one of the victims of official retrenchment, has fallen into an excellent way of business at Honolulu, The best thing that ever happened him, he states was his dismissal. Married —In Chillicothe, September 12th, Herbert L. llollingstone and Emma J. Mos.s*’ Thus ' does one familiar proverb receive its death blow. The Marquis of Bute intends to erect a Roman Catholic- monastery for for English Monks on his property at Jerusalem and plans for an oratory have been prepared, the building to cost §20,000. Scene—A Court of Law ; trial for manslaughter is going on j Pat in the witness box. Council for the prisoner; “ Did you see prisoner knock down deceased? Pat no yer Honour ; he was alive when I see him knocked down. SOM MSB AND CO WHOLESALE AND RETAIL SEEDS MERCHANTS & NURSERY MEN, Octagon, Dunedin. Farm Seeds, Flower Seeds, Garden Seeds. Tree Seeds. Forest Fruit, and Ornamental Trees and Shrubs, Pot Plants, Hedge Plants &c. Appointed agents for the celebrated Apliolnaris Water. W. BEST & SONS, Foreign Wine, Spirit, and Mineral Water Merchants, 22, Henrietta street, Cavendish square, London W. Pric Lists on application. WAIMATE AGENCY. MR. WOOD is Agent for the Times at Waimate. The Paper will be regularly delivered every evening for SIXPENCE PER WEEK.