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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 1887, 13 January 1885, Page 2

The Lancet recently 'Mate dinners, champagne ancj ci°t|rq lead to an early tomb," andjjw we read at the Medical Congress 'Copenhagen 1,200 doctors " put away" 4,000 bottles of Bolinger, and other wines, at one banquet. Here is preeeipt warring with practice with a ven3eance. In some of the sensational novels of the old school the herione, who is of course an heiress, is forced ; the point of the pistol by the villains tq sign nor name to some document, which in the easiest maimer possible, makes over all her property to thein. A statement somewhat to the same effect was made by a member of the monoy-lending fraternity. ill.the..Melbourne County Conrt recoutly. jfe hat} a person upon »judgement sipmpns; to know why he did not pay some money owing to him. The debtor produced a receipt for payment of ihe debt,' The money-lender, however, affirmed that, one day he went to debtors housed to get his just debt. While' in one of the rooms 'here two men camein, and while a woman heltja liirge jA* bay over his head tho men to to sign some document which lie'knew now was the receipt produced.-" Tha solicitor who.appealed for th'e idebtor asked his Honor to swallow the,story cumqrano.salis. The house, he said, was on the opposite side of the road to the police station, ■ and police were passing the door of the house' continually. The creditor'had not either given information to . the police about the affair. His Honor appeared cynical about the statement,-but made an order for some part of the 1 Money owing, as the debtor had not clearly proved' she had paid the debt ofFin full, -.;

The Sultan of Morocco has dismissed from and cast into prison the Governor of the , Moorish province ,of for having prosecuted and tortueii the Jaws.

Boheman, who makes..his bread and butter by the push of his peri, unfortunately had his right hand' smashed and all the fingers had to be amputated. His friend, the editor, couilWrating him upon his misfortune, remarked: "You will be unfit for journalistic du-ty in the future," " Oil, no," replied the wretched man, gazing at his mangled limb; " I can do short-hami work hereafter.