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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1043, 8 April 1882, Page 2 (Supplement)

A Heinous Crime,-lord Kenyon thus addressed a dishonest butlor who had been convicted of stealing largo quantities of wino from his master's collar: " Prisoner at the bar. you stand convicted, on the most conclusive evideaco, of a crime of inexpressible atrocity—a crime that dofilcs tlio sacred spring.* of domestic confidence, and is calculated to striko alarm into the breast of every Englishman who invests largely iu the choicer vintages uf Southern Europe. Liko the serpent of old, you have stung tlio hand of your protector, l Fortunate in having a generous employor, you mijrlit, without dishonesty, liavo continued to supply your wretched wife and children with Uie comforts ofsufficicnt prosperity, and oven with some of the luxuries of affluonco; but, dead to every claim of natural affection and blind to your own real interest, you burst through all ' the restraints of rohgion and morality, and havo for many years beon feathering your nest with your master's bottles."— Oddities of the law, Herald. The Emperor op Russia,— Although, stern towards the majority of those who surround liiin, the present Emperor of Russia, Alexander 111.. Jins alwaj's beon a sympathising and affeetionato husband and father, At 1 o'clock daily he lunches with his wito and.children, rind to this meal none but the closest intimates of his family are evor admitted, After luncheon, if there arc no further deputations to receive or important business to attend to, the Czar goes out walking or driving, in company with the Empress or his sons.: At 7.30, which, in Russia, is considered ai late hour, the Emporor and : Empress dino, but at this moal tlio children, who have been already consigned for the night to the care of their superintendents, do not appear. In I tlio cvouiug there, is ofton a little music, oftvliich 1 the Empross i» as fond as tlio Emperor, and Her. i Majesty is a good pianist. The Czar retires to ' bed early, and by II o'clock all is silence. <