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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2825, 14 April 1882, Page 3

Mr Robert Miller, a.farmer at Winchmore had his hand drawn into the cogs of a chaff-cutter yesterday and four of his fingers were cut off.

There was a breeze which threatened to become a squall at the E.M. Court, this morning. Two learned counsel discussing a point of order, waxed warm, and departed somewhat from their usual suavity of manner. Lawyers should.never quarrel, that's clients’ business.

The perjury cp.se heard at the E.M. Court this morning excited some little interest, as it arose out cf a recent charge of larceny of wool, at the hearing of which the present accused was a chief witness for the prosecution. The then defendants are now prosecutors. After a somewhat prolonged sitting the case was adjourned till Wednesday next. A full report appears in another column.

Referring to the Woodstock rush, the “Lyttelton Times” correspondent at Hokitika writes as follows' uhdor date yesterday I have just visited the new rush again. Many business promises have been erected, and tents are pitched all over the ground. There must be a large population on the ground itself, and the shafts are g /ing down rapidly in all directions. It is said that several hundred miners are on their way down from Melbourne and Sydney, so that the ground between Woodstock and Ross will be thoroughly pros, pectecl. The political news attracts no interest, public attention being absorbed by the rush.

The “ Lyttelton Times” says : —A Paris correspondent draws attention, to the nonrecognition of the English marriage law in France, which leads to the desertion of many English woman and children on their arrival in this country. A Frenchman may marry an English girl in England according to our laws, and as long as they remain in England they are lawfully married ; but let a trip to Pads or French soil bo taken, and the wife is no longer a wife and the children become illegitimate. Young women who contemplate marriage with Frenchmen should make themselves acquainted with all the French formalities. It is true that there are Frenchmen who do know the laws of their own country. A short time ago a Frenchman came to Paris, and finding that the Englishwoman ho had espoused 18 years was not legally his wife, honourably re-married her according to the French law. But, unfortunately, Frenchmen do not always act thus, and instances may be noted where the police have been called in to expel the English wife and her babes as intruders at the house of the husband and lather,