LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 254, 2 December 1909, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The opening of the new Inglewood municipal swimming baths takes place this afternoon. A Gazette notice states that school tickets, available lor two months from dale of issue, at three-fourths of the ordinary return fare, will be available to school boarders returning home for holidays, at the end of the recognised school term. ,

The following unclaimed letters received from places beyond the domimou are lying at the chief post office, New Plymouth:—James Barr, E. Baker, E. Bell, J. Bennett, Jeremiah J. Fahey, C. Flux, Peter Hodge, O. R. Holmes, Mrs. Johnson, J. F. O'Hanlon, Petty and Archer, John Seott, Herbert Gilbert, JR. Smith, W. D. Smith, Mr. Taravake, J. Williams.

Tho-Waitara Borough Council recently received an offer to lend the corporation for the purposes oi its water supply, and the making of its streets, in accordance with the sanction given by the ratepayers, an amount of £IB,OOO at i'/< per cent., out was declined, the executive of the borough wishing to get the money at something better than 4 per cent. The lenders are an English linn. The borough authorities believe I lie money will be forthcoming, if not from the Government, from private sources at. a charge of not more than 3% per ccn';. -Mail.

In explaining the reason for granting i reprieve in the case of the Chri sichurch, murderer, Roberts, in the House of Representatives the other evening the Premier read the report of Mr. Justice Denniston, who presided at I Intrial. It stated that the jury, in efTeri, said that -had the onus of proof of saility been on the prosecution, they would have found the issue in favor of the incused. On this point his Honor was nut able to entirely concur with the finding, as the evidence indicated a purposive and intelligent course of action totally inconsistent with the existence of' a inreasonable doubt as to the prisoner Icing sane within the legal definition of sanity. The rider of the jury was, ho »•- ever, evidently intended to express their opinion that although there was not sufficient to prove what might be termed "legal sanity" the accused was, in a wider and more popular sense, morallv irresponsible, and that, consequently, il was their desire and opinion thai )<•■ should not suffer the extreme penally nf the laiw. But for a belief that this impression of opinion would be effective, they -would, staled his Honor, probaoly have disagreed, or have lound, nolwiihstanilinir liis direction, that the accused was legally Insane. The medical evidence was to the effect that accused (who is onlv twenty-one) was .physiciliv. morally and mentally what was jjener illy described as a degenerate. To proofs of inherited tendencies they added that J —probably as a consequence of such do-

'■ieneies—the accused hud still further debased liimwlf liv excessive alcoholism. , .".ml bv other abuse. Their conclusions certainly justified that purl, of the jnrv':; rider which found that (lie accused was not possessed of nonn.il. menial and Tihvsir-iil la'-nillcs. Sir .Tosenh added ilnit Mr. Justice TViiuislnn had enll-il upon him Iha I morning and slated lint lie fullv approved of the reprieve of 'ho sentence. WHY flO HUNGRYt If your stomach is weak and y)u are siifferiii',' from indigestion, don't sacrifice -icnr health and comfort. Eat all the wholesome food you want. Then take oi'« of T)r. Sheldon's Hiiestivo Tahii.es after each meal. Then digest your food, avu! thus nourish and build you up,-while ihe stomach is recovering its nat'irnl lone. Is Cd per tin. Obtainable everywhere.