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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2482, 4 March 1881, Page 4

The “ New Zealand Times” says • “ Some very remarkable discoveries havecome to hand connected with the administration of affairs in the Christchurch Asylum, at Sunnyside. These disclosures are contained in letters written by patients and ex-patients of that institution. We do not know what amount of credence to attach to the statements made in those letters, but if a mere tithe of them is true, then serious cause exists for some enquiry to be made on the part of the proper authorities into the assertions which have been made.’, It is probable that an enquiry will be instituted, and that it will extend to an enquiry into the treatment of lunatics generally throughout the Colony.

Mr Darwin, whose illness is giving his freinds serious alarm, has never fully recovered from his sufferings when prostrated by sea-sickness on board the Beagle, fifty years ago. A Real Teetotal Steamer. —The teakeetle. Peto has voluntarily devoted the greater part of his wife’s large fortune to the payment of his old creditors. It is difficult to realize that the wife of the German Crown Prince, Mary Victoria of England, is now forty years old. A literary gentleman, when a witness in a suit at’law, was insultingly treated by a shallow and conceited lawyer named Hawkinson, and took his revenge by scrawling off and handing to the opposite counsel these lines : “ When Nature formed Hawkins she called for her shears, ' We must shorten this fellow,’ she said * in the ears.’ But added at last, ‘We will let the ears pass; What is long for a man is just right for an ass.’ ” Basil Wilberforce, son of the bishop of that name, is lecturing against the idea of eternal punishment and annnihilation. It is said to be a singular fact that with the excaption of Turkey, every reigning royal family in Europe has some of the blood of Mary Stewart in its veins. The many friends of Mr William Creswick will regret to hear that, in consequence of continued indisposition, he has been obliged to terminate his engagement at the Surrey. A New York papei, heralds a manufacturer of dimples, who comes from Paris of course, and whose modus operand lis described as follows “ I make a puncture in the skin at the point where the dimple is required, that cannot be noticed when it has healed, and with a very delicate instrument I remove a portion of the muscle. Then I excite a slight inflaraation, which attaches the skin to the sub-cutaneous hollow I have formed. In a few days the wound—if wound it can be called —has healed, and a charming dimple is the result. Mr Isaac Newton Watt is not the only erratic Magistrate. A little boy was in England a short time ago charged with picking a rose and a sprig of geranium from a gentleman’s garden. The humane magistrate let him off with a sentence of three months’ hard labor! Another benevolent magistrate at Leeds gave a tram-car conductor a month for embezzling 2d, while two weeks’ imprisonment was the punishment awarded to a brute who broke his wife’s nose with u fiat iron.