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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2785, 29 December 1887, Page 2

SUNDAY ABUSES..'■ , At the Koroifc Police.Court recently, James Watson; of'Orford, was pro-, ceeded against by. Sergeant Kelly fifr. a breach of ari Act of Parliament or> the reign of Charles I. The offence consisted.in driving a loaded'wool waggon through the township oh Sun- • day, October 23. The Magistrates inflicted a penalty of 20s. The statute under which this conviction was obtained was passed in 1627, and is entitled "An.Act for the Furijber Reformation of Sundry Abuses jsj!l r initted on the Lord's Day, Commonly called Sunday," The preamble states . that, "Forasmuch as the Lord's Day, commonly called Sunday, is much broken and profaned by carriers, wag- * goners, carters, waiumenv butchers, and drovers of cattle, to the great dis- '"" honor of Godand reproach of religion," it is enacted " that no carrier with any horse or horses, t nor waggomneri with any waggon or wagons, nor carmen with any cart or caets, nor wainmen with any wain or wains, nor drovers with axiy cattle shall. . . .travel upon the said day upon pain that every A .person and persons so offending shall \ lose arid forfeit 20s for.every such" offence." The-Act further provides that the amount of the penalty shall go to the poor of the parish, subject to a portion of it, not exseeding one-third going to the informer orprosecutor.at the discretion of the magistrate, • <:. SILENCE. ■ Mr Phelps, the. American Minister, was present the other evening afcy banquet gived at Nottingham, in cefehratiou of the jubilee of the NottingMechanic'a Institution, and in the couase of his speech said education' 'ought to bo continuous until human teaching is illuminated by the light of a better world, With regard to reading, it seemed to him thero was not 'so much thought in the world, as there used to be. Men got their opinions , from the. Newspapers very much as tlioy got their daily bread from tbe > i baker. Some men were too busy to'). think, and somo .were too lazy, Hq . noticed that institution once had a debating society, but they had discontinued it, upon that he congratulated them. He should like to see a professorship of silence endowed in all educational institutional, to ench men to hold their tongues. He thought their was a great deal to much talking in Lngsandi Ho did not think they were ever going to establish government by oratory; but, perhaps, they were in danger of that unless public seßfiment took a different turn. They, seemed to be a kind of morbid cravingyfor speeches which, like the craving Sfc... other stimulants, was. not wholesome Tbe American/Minister had to, mako more speeches daring the four years . in tbiY country than he woule be . allowed to make in his own country' during the veeMhis life,. • v ■,v