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Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4584, 13 September 1883, Page 2

Through some'unaccountable mistake a where the husband and wife were asleep lno dog set up a prolonged series of low, monotonous moans, greatly terrifying the husband, who-came to the conclusion that n must bo Old Harry oa a mission. The 1 ♦k gu J r*lsed his Pows on the fronfc of ' thei bed, whea the gademangave utterance , to the following :—» O, good Devil; donV take me, , Take Betty; she's at the hack J o the bed {" , J Whenever a clock ia accused of bernj^^B behind time you may be sure tlje&j^^^M something wrong on the face of it.

I \Mb Btrosox "WiiiatusOK asked .the . Auckland Police Court-to make an order, un.der the Destitute PerVons Ee'ief Act, upon , Charles Kingston Jeffs, -who holds a power o!" attorney for John Albert Fisher, late of the Occidental Hotel, for tho maintenance of his ■wifeMSarah Fisher) and her child. Mr Williamson opened ■the case afc some length.', Fisher bad left, the colony, j,nd Jeffs had iho management of Fisher's affairs. Asa sum- ' monß could uot-reach Fisher he argued, under the 17th section of th« Act, that his Worship had power to inquire in the matter of complaint, and muke '•the desired order. Fisher .had left the t:oiany in a most scandalouß way, and had deserted i his wife , and her child, leaving them without means of subsistence.—Mr Cotter iipprared for Jeffs, and contended that the section ..referred to could hear no «uch interpretation as his friend endeavored to draw from" it.—Mr BrasEey, for Fisher,.said the application was 'the most extraordinary one that had come within his knowledge ; it was a fishing nppli- ' cation, but wbb nofc likely to take. He denied that Fisber bad left in a, scandalous nisnr'ir, and had Mrs.Fisber acted wisely the results would have been *cry different.—His Worship eaid he would look into the several phases of the case before hcarit g the wilneseeu, but he could not grant nw order in the terms of the application. JJJjb hearing of the case was adjourned untiijMd&y. At the inquest held in Nelson re the death of the man. found Headless on the beach, the body wuß identified, /as that of Wm. Eeader, ■ 'ate coxswain of the pilot-boat. The inquest "has been adjourned 'till the return of Pilot Xowo, v?ho is idoff'in Sydney. News has been received that a "man's, skull" had been picked , ..«p on.the beßC&un'der Motueka Bluff, fifteen, miles from the fcSaiide. It is not known whether it is the m ssiDg part of Reader's body, but from the description it is that of a man recently,dead. Father de la Croix, a Jesuit has discovered valuable Roman ruins in some excavations at Sanxay, in the department of Vienne, France. A sum of £400 has been Toted by the Archaeological Society of Paris for carry in c; on the works, and it is likely that the" State will purchase the entire property.