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Temuka Leader, Issue 1173, 13 November 1883, Page 3

The Benefits Wk Enjoy.— We take the following amusing skit from a Sydney paper ; —‘A man in a New Zealand town sued the Corporation the other day for injuries sustained one night by coming in collision with a telegraph post. And he got £3O damages. This is the kind of law we believe in. We think a stop should be put to the midnight roystering of telegraph posts and such things. The way they go tearing around at night is something scandalous. A man is going peaceably home and one of these harum-skarum posts cannons up against him and leaves him in such a condition that, if he is able to find his own door, he is probably unable to explain how he got there. And so it is that mistrust and suspicion are sown in a family. If there were any decent law here, we know one ruffianly specimen of this class we should issue a summons against. It is a pillar box, and is supposed to stand on the corner of the street which we at present snake famous by living in. But, does it stand ? Not much—at night, anyhow. We have en deavoured to teach it a lesson once or twice, but in vain. Last time we tried we stayed in for three weeks afterwards. We are sorry to have to make such an accusation against what ought to be a respectable feature of the street, but we are constrained to do it. We believe it drinks. If we only had those New Zealand magistrates over here, we fancy we could get damages enough from the Corporation to retire upon for injuries sustained through the pillar-box alone. But there is no justice in this country.' A N.Z. Heiebss in London—'ln the beginning of last season,’ says the World of September 12, a lady was seen in drawingrooms, the reputed wealth of whom made not a few mouths water and chained to her side a young nobleman who had previously met with a marked absence of good fortune in bis swoop upon the heiresses of the Pacific Slope. The lady was intelligent, no longer in her first youth, and of mixed parentage, her mother having been a New Zealand Maori, married by her father when he gave up whaling and took to beach combing and the acquisition of land in the islands. So well did Barney Bhodes prosper that this daughter has £40,000 a-year. She got through her short experience of London in safety, went back to New Zealand, and has just, given her hand to a local young man—the son of a late Bishop of Napier.’ ‘Bucbu-Paiba.’-rQiiick, complete cure, all annoying Kidnciy, Bladder and Urinar/f Diseases.' Druggists. Moses, Moss and 00, Sydney, General Agents. 2