THE PEACE PRESERVATION BILL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 769, 16 May 1881, Page 2

THE PEACE PRESERVATION BILL.

The Peace Preservation (Ireland) Bill, , 1881, has just been issued. Clause 1 provides that in a proclaimed district no one shall carry aims and ammunition, and anyone contravening the statute may be arrested without a warrant. Any justice of the peace, constable, or peaoe offioer may search any persod whom lie may suspect of carryingarms and ammunition. The Lord-Lieutenant may by warrant direct any person to : search .in houses, buildings, and places situated in a proclaimed district for any arms or ammunition suspeoted to be therein. The person named within such warrant may, within twenty-one days next after the date of the warrant, at any time between sunrise and sunset, and if need be by force, enter into any house, building, or place specified in such warrant, and there execute the warrant. Any amis or ammunition carried, had, orfound under circumstances which contravene this Act shall be for: feited to,-Her Majesty. Clause 3 provides thas the Lord Lieutenant, by and with the advicee of the Privy Council in Ireland, may from time to time by proclamation declare this Act to be in force within any specified part of Ireland, Under clause 4 the Lord Lieutenant, by and.with the advice of the Privy Counoil in Ireland, may from time to time make orders for prohibiting or regulating in Ireland the sale or importation of arms and ammunition. By clause 5 any person acting in contravention of this act shall be liable, if convicted before a cowtof summaryjuris-. diction, to be imprisoned for a term not. exceeding three months; or at the discretion of the court to a penalty not exceeding £2O. , Clause 8 provides that this Act shall continue in force until June 1 1886.

FRANK BUOKLAND'S LAST WORDS

; The following are some' of the last words spoken by the eminent naturalist: "Of late years' the doctrines;of socalled 'Evolution' and 'Development' have seeniingly gained ground amongst those interested in natural historybut! I have too much faith in the good sense and natural acumen of my. fellow-country-men to think that these tenets will be very long-Jived. , ; "To put matters -very. straight, I steadfastly . believe .that the - Great Creator, as,(indeed, : we are dircotly.toldi made all tiling perfect and ' very good' from the beginning; perfect and good every created thing is now found to be, and will so continue to the end of time.

"I jam very willing to prove my case by holding a court at any timeor;place, before! any number 5 of. peoploOof any .class.j.l would empanel'a jury of the .most 'eminent and skilful -railway and imecjjanical .engineers;' 'while " the- 1 only fitnesses I should call would be the ■ fish,'from-.the deep-sea trawler, ;the .city, fish market, or the fishmonger's slab. *1 would adduce from them evidence of'design, beauty, and order,' as evinced iii auoh

as the electro organs of the torpedo—the 'frnnlnpV !'flninfl thfl filn-fifih fhn • •gUlllUlfOi . ? 1110 UltJ'UoU .vHw '{wafer and spectaoles of the and the carp, bream, &c,—tiie-anchofof the lumpsuoker and • • • remora—the coloring of the perch and bloak— of—the pike/ shard, "and" silvery hairtail—Jh'e'taiL of the fox-shark—the: prehVnsile llips % (jf -■■ M the dory anft'aprat—the nose ortn'e bar. Bel anddoKfl3h—th9"*"reßplendence"6f" r tlrer > ~ ,,CT Arctic gymnotuß and scabbard fish—the dagger iirto'taipoflhestingraf— theiesfc './ I of the Btjckl^bacl^xtlie the sturgeon the nostril, breathing powers, and store of fat in the aalmon— . migrations of, the salmon, qt niacket^ , :|tc, allf^tne^eng!^' Q_ mous fertility of'fishes"useful'as" food iiojjjYiwH the human race; r ."I am satisfied ( [verdict in favor 'of my view of ine case, 'namely, that in all these wonderful contrivances there exists evidenoesiof .design *, and forethought, 'aniaiwondrousUdlpta-l: tion oif means to an end, A full acknowledgment must nec'esUtfly'Mow thai. these were due to the immediate creation. . 1 of*' the Lord and Giver "of Life:'' 1 -