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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2291, 10 May 1886, Page 2

ROUND THE WORLD.

A somevrhat curious point of law. with reference to Sunday music, came ~&£(re Mr Justice Hawkins and Mr Mathew, in London, in March, The ' Croydon magistrates had convicted a Salvationist for playing somo instrument of torture in the street ori Sunday, contrary < tu a bye-law of the borough, which prohibit! sweet music of any description whatever on Sundays, except by soldiers and Yoluntoera; 'and tiie Salvationist appealed on the ground that the bye-lav was unreasonable. Tfio"' Judges decided that it wis "egregiously. unreaionable," and allowed the appeal with costs, upon the ground that any man who happened to be playing a most beautiful music and and a boy playing a Jew's harp would bo. equally liable to conviction and fine, Under these "circumstances (remarks Truth) it is evident that tho well-meant efforts of magistrates and town-council-men to protect their fellow citizens from • irritation and annoyance at the hands of noisy fanatics on Sundays are futiio, and that: in future we are ontircly at th« mercy of such' discord-loving enthusiasts, who may Henceforth torture us to their • hearts' content. Mormon women met in large numbers' at Salt Lake Theatre, on Sunday, March ( 1, to protest against the action of the j Federal official? and Court. Long speeches were made, upholding the rights ofiiho j women to go into polygamy, declSWg that there were" tljqusands of women j the land now who would be glad to makflp ( such wives as they are; that 60'vernmenty ) bad no right to say that women should' I not marry; that cheir social preferences- j should be respected, and tho law had no ! right to interfere.* j Mrs Brydg'os Williams and her sister ' Mils Matilda Levy, two generous Jewish i ladies, daughters of: Mr J. M. Levy, of the London Daily Telegrap, have endowed a ward in Charing Crosß .Hospital for 1 suffering womon of their own race. The amount of the endowment is £4,000. A separate kitchon will be provided. The European Mail is publishing a series of articles en " Eminent Colonists," and in No. 3 it deals with Sir John Hall, .of whom it gives an excellent portrait. It mentions that he was bora in 1834, at Hull in Yorkshire, and adds Educated on tho Continent-—chiefly, w» believe, in France and Germany—thejfuture colonial statesman received , a thorough business training m the Imperial Civil Service, and was Private Secretary until 185fe£to the late Colonel Maberley, the well-kaphi Secretary to the Post Office. Ho was selected by the Poßtmastor General to examine and report on the now historio proposal of the late-Lieutenant Waghorn to alter the route of tho British Indian mails, and despatch them via Trieste," It then reters to the fact of his emigrating to New Zealand in 1852, and concludes jm appreciative article by laying"Now Jr ■ Zealand may well be congratulated on what Sir John Mall has boon to and on on what he haß accomplished for the Colony ho has served so long and well j ' and we are glad to know that he contemplates returning shortly to the scene of So much toil, success,-, and distinction, and wo sinceroly trust that Sir John flail will return with fully;.restored health, once moro to take up' and carry on his statesmanlike labors for the advancement of what.will at no distant date provo to be one ot the very greatest .of the Australnsian colonies,"