DISTEICT COURT

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2992, 1 September 1888, Page 3

DISTEICT COURT

MASTERTON SEPTEMBER 1.

, By direction of tho District JikUc the. Clerk of tho Court Mr J, J, Freetb,dolivered Judgment tbis morn' jngin the following casM;—

Buick v. Carr,

Claim £35, judgment for plaintiff for £ls, Defendant to pay tho costs £B,

Official Assignee v. Hull, Important Decision,

This is a summons by the Official Assignee in bankruptcy, calling on the debtor, (who is the holder of a deferred prynient License under the Land Act, 1885) to show cause why an order should not be made on the Land Board of the district of Wellington, directing that the interest of the debtfMi the land, the subject of the saidgPiise should bo assigned to" the Official Assignee, the said debtor having become bankrupt on the 27th day. of May 18.87; also'to show cans'e why Ibo debtor should not deliver the

'fluid license to the Official Assignee for the purpose of having such assignment made and completed.- On consideration of the terms of the Land Act, 1885, and the fact that the debtor had not at the, date of his bankruptcy acquired assignable interest in the land excopi such as could be assigned under the provisions of that act (which provisions do not appear to include the case of bankruptcy), I am of opinion tint the Court has no power to make an order as prayed. The summons is therefore dismissed. No costs allowed,

Fish for Ponds.

Canterbury [Times.)

Away inland, the farmors of . Cantorttfy bavo but few olmnces of ' enjoying the delicacy of fresh fish at !l( meals. : Now and again a visit is g, paid to the chief town of the district, 0, '■ and a barracoota of questionable age ■ ib obtained, sent up from the coast, Si or it may be that some fishmonger ni has overbought, and must got rid of : his stock before his.fish become g ( ' absolutely unfit for human food. He ( i, : harnesses up, and away he goes % few miles into tho country. By in ; bringing his wares absolutely to the doors of the farmers, he manages to ■ place what would have been a white elephant had he kept the stuff in t, town. But there is no reason why c< • farmors should not have plenty of A fresh fish always availablo, just as they may always have fresh meat, ?' fresh milk, fresh butter, and fresh ] vegetables. In most of our rivers now splondid trout aro to be found; f, but then thare is a close season for b them of very considerable duration, S with lioenses to tako out for angling, and on no account aro any means of « seounnjL trout but by gonuino A angluijWllowed. The man who j • would daro spear a trout on any of our h ; riversisacriminal; theman who would tako tho mean advantago of" trim- ". ming" the rapids wifJi chloride of lime or Quicklime, is il criminal in a elill jnore heinous degree; g ■' and any man caught in •an S attempt to net trout, will bo punished * with the utmpst rigor of the law. '' But thore isllo need for any farmer to run such risks. In Mid-Canter-i bury the wholo plains are net- 0 worked with an admirable system of fi wateraces. ' Most farmers have a tliese running through their propertie's,'or over'at least a small portion .. of them, It''would be very easy jndeed for a fanner to scoop a few small ppnjls on his property, to be fed from these races, the water to he e of course returned, so' as not to * jiiterfore with tlie regulations; and b quite sure that no obstacle c wwafta'thrown in the way of conthose ponds by the powers a that the work were done j; in a manner beyond cavil of tho o skilled officials. But oven if the: water were not obtainable from'the races, the windmill pump is a cheap now, and could easily supply enough for all the requirements of the ponds, * From an American paper we obtain . information,therosultofthe expor- ■ ience of many farmers in Hhat go- ( ■';■' ahead country, as to how the farm . ,'., ,fish-ponds should be seen to. '■'■ In'the •-.rfu , 6t, : place,pr6visipn should be made , .;.';" ill laying'dom' the pond that it ho at i : rf ; : tho sido of the race or stream, so |hat: /;'-'• the Irish are rjpt'w&ahed over' the in- ' % y take in a.lieavy rain orjtreshet,-.)' The;' -f .pond if only one;is usefli- should rbe '■ . '■' farga enough in ■, area .provide a \: '.;' flpfthin the centre of a many /—feet-fron} five a gentle

deop tiika to 'tlie! 1 siidllows in the warm weather.;,, should bo muddy, with plentyipf clay if possiblo, and tUe pmids sbbuld bo so' arranged that every drop of watercan be drawn, off.'; If the fish aro fed as regularly', as the oliiokons thoy will grow oven move rapidly. The.only fish worth growing in those ponds aro carp, although porch can also bo kept in thorn. It is not easy to catcli carp by bait, bo that anglers are not.likely to disturb the ponds. To draw off the water a wooden culvert should bo usod, with a valve of leather atthehisido end. Around this end a sparrod box should bo placed to provont clogging with rubbish,.and to iirovcnt tlio fish from being swopt through the culvert. Carp is a grand fish for table, is easily fed, and may becomo as tame as goldfish with proper treatment; ilalf-a-doam or, so ofiniltors and spawners would soon stock a largo pond, and after 0110 season, the table need never bo without a dish of carp.

Criminal Cleverness,

Tbo Southland Nows lias tbo following:—Judges havo often remarked tint if criminals would only apply their cleverness mid ingenuity to legitimate objects, they would achieve success in any walk of lifo they might choose to adopt. As it is, their best laid schemes are usually doomed to failure through some oversight, A case in point is afforded by what happened to Mr Harry Treen, ex-sowing machine agent, now serving three years for housebreaking. When ho had loft the dock he requested tlio constable in chargo to allow him to look over his swag, which he was kijdly permitted to do. The prisoner unrolled the outer covering of blanket, and after inspecting some of tho articles with great apparent solicitude, carelessly threw aside three neckties. They were of the kind known as

" luado-up," ft combination of cardboard and satin. Constable Griffiths fancied ho smelt a rat. Taking up one of the tios, he dislodged the stuffing, and found it to consist of three new ono pound notes, of tjie National Bank, of which tho numbors wero consecutive. Poor Treon looked up with an air of chagrin at tho discovery of liis little nest egg, which, three years hence, might have been useful to him in starting afresh.