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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2822, 11 April 1882, Page 3

The wind has been endeavoring all the morning, to veer round, to the opposite point of the compass, and if it succeeds we may hope for fine weather.

At the R.M. Court this morning there was only one case, Messrs Woollcombe and Belfield being the presiding magistrate. Rachael Cole was committed to the Lunatic Asylum on a charge of insanity. There’ is nothing like keeping life insurance continually before people’s eyes, in the style of those cheerful 'individuals who are always urging you to “ think of your latter end.” The Government has an office in the Exhibition building—a very likely place for people to choose fo r insuring their lives.

Colonel Hanltain and Mr Henry Bunny, members of the Royal Commission appointed to inquire into the land claims of volunteers and naval and military officers and men, took an opportunity on their trip to Auckland to interview Te Whiti, Tohu, Titokowaru. and Hiroki, in gaol, and found the whole of the prisoners looking remarkably well and happy, though they did not allude to the cause of their imprisonment, they did not seem to care at all about their confinement. Te Whiti and Titokowaru appeared to be remarkably “ jolly,” and the latter enjoyed the statement that; he had caused one of the visitors a good deal of trouble in time past. There seems to be no derire on the part of the prisoners to be released. A Philadelphia surgeon cured the burnt hand of a man by skin-grafting, the skin being taken from a Chicago drummer’s cheek. The experiment was not wholly a success, however. The man’s knuckles now have a color and hardness so much resembling brass that he gets arrested every time he goes out.