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Thames Star, Volume IX, Issue 3018, 17 October 1878, Page 2

A post-mobtem examination of the body of James McEelvie was made at the Hospital yesterday, when it was found from a scientific point of view that the cause of death, was quite a novelty, no parallel case appearing in the common texts books of medical lore. It appears that the pressure of the stuff on a certain portion of the abdomen had bruised a portion of the great gut above the rectum. This part of the bowels in its normal state is as large as the circumference of a five shilling piece, but the bruise referred to had caused a quantity of lymphitic matter to exude from the inner circumference, and thai on hardening caused the contraction of the orifice to about a quartsr of an inch in diameter, while the gut had increased to five or six times its ordinary thickness.

"Open confession is good for the soul." Speaking in the House recently, Mr Stout said :—" Some people have very' peculiar ideas, of the functions of an advocate. Why, I've defended some of the biggest swindles ever perpetrated in the colony; I've done my best when retained as counsel for murderers ; but is it to be said that

This riddle appeared to take the House by surprise, and no hon. member volunteered an answer. We would put it to Mr > tout, as Attorney-General, whether he should not be indicted, as Mr Stout, the advocate, for conspiracy to defeat the ends of justice? Riddle for riddle.— Wellington Post.

The only business on the charge sheet at the R.M. Court this morning were two cases arising out of 'domestic differences, which, however, as neither parties appeared, were struck out.

It having become known, says the Herald of Wednesday, that Mr D. M. Luckie, for many years editor of the Daily Southern Cross, and, subsequently, since the amalgamation of the two Auckland morning papers, of the New Zealand Herald, had accepted a position as editor of one of the Wellington papers, a number of his friends deemed it advisable to testify their respect for Mr Luckie and family by presenting a testimonial of a purse of sovereigns to Mrs Luckie, and an address to Mr Luckie. The matter was confined to a limited circle of i itimate friends, by whom a purse of 50 sovereigns was subscribed. Messrs J, Russell, M. Danaher, G. Aicken, J. Cosgrave, and T. Peacock, on behalf of those friends, waited on Mrs Luckie yesterday, for the purpose of making the presentation. The presentation to Mr Luckie consists of an address expressive of regret at his leaving Auckland, approbation of the impartial manner in which he filled the responsible positions he had occupied, and wishing him success in the future.

The great literary success of the day in France is Victor Hugo's Histoire dun Crime. The sale of the people's edition at two francs has reached 150,000.

HoECEL, one of the would-be assassins of the Emperor of Germany, has been gibbeted in effigy by the stonemasons of Cologne Cathedral. His body has been made like that of a quadruped, while his claws grasp a revolver in one hand and a newspaper in the other.