MISCELLANEOUS.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2040, 19 July 1875, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

Thebe was no business'at the Rosiden Magistrate's Court this morning.

Cheqces AN d Dbafts.— A bill has been introduced in the Kcw t-'outh Wales Assembly by Mr J. Wntson "to amend jthc law relating to drafts or cheques on bankers." The first clauso enacts that the words " bank " or " and company,'* or the name of a banker written across the cheque, shall be deemed a material part of the cheque, not to be altered or obliterated. Tho banker on whom tho cheque is drawn-shall pay the sum it represents only to the banker whose name is written pn.Jt._ The lawful owner of a cheque crossed with tho word?" bank " or " company " may add the name of a bank, or if tho cheque be uncrossed niny cross it with" the words " bank " or " and* company," and such cheque is then to be regarded as subject to the provisions of the first section. The wilful.pblitcratipn, adding ;to, or alteration of the, crossine: of-a cheqiie with intent]to defraud are to be considered .felonies, punishable by not more than two years', imprisonment; A bank is not'to be held responsible for a chequp that docs not plainly appear to have been crossed, or. altered.. Drafts on bankers payable to order on demand are to be taken as sufficient authority for payment without proof of endorsement. Ho^r to Take Linn ?-asily.—Be careless with keroseuo.

That American jßeportkr Again.— At a recent wedding, according to a report, " the jellies upon the bridal^ supper tables were pure amber masses of quivering translueence, catching the winecolored prisms of perfumed light, and holding them in tremu'ous mirrors of rosy beauty." How about (he lobster salad and doughuts ? The Lowell Courier says—" We have coloured school*, in the north. At any rate .there is a Brown university. - -.' , A"Maine man is out with a temperance lecture, the taking title which is, " How Goliath was killed with a sling."