Six months for a "Bob".

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3140, 27 February 1889, Page 3

Six months for a "Bob".

; Thq Justices who presided in the : Ohristohuroh Police Court last week . did not aot on the maxim of; temper- . tag justice witli nieroy. An assis- ' taut in : a butcher's shop was suspected of stealing money.; A trap' was set for him, and a marked shilling • ■ paid by a o'ustomer for some meat was found in the man's possession a little while after it was parted with .in the shop.- On this evidence (says : the Telegraph) the accused was found guilty, and sentenced to six months' imprisonment,, with hard labor. Though nothing was known against .his character'so far as the report goes, not a word was said as to ; whether he should have the knefit a* of the First Offender's Act. But, Impart from all other considerations, '.'.there cannot ' be the least : doubt that the. sentence was most exoessive. Six months for a shilling •is rather too muoh of a joke I One might not be altogether surprised at its severity had the Bench been occupied by a Tory Justice of the Peace. Such was not the case The Chairman was a distinguished friend'of the working man, and, if wo mistake not, a Knight of Labor. Nothing like the working man's friend for making things warm for one of his confreres when he gets the .chance.- We do not suppose that there are two other Justices in Canterbury, except Messrs Guinness and Gapes, who would send a mau to gaol • for six months for stealing a shilling, and thus leave his'wife and family to or be kept by the Charitable Aid Board.

German Settlements. Very much worse thaii the fato in store for the German settlements in the South Pacific seems to be the case of that vexed Angra Pequeua, alias thepriraeiirof German 'The South-west African '• Company was originally formed with a capital of £40.000, of which there was littlo more than one-fourth left on April ], No charter has yet been grantod lo the Company, and the . Native chieftains are getting decidedly obstreperous, At Otyimbingue, the German missionary station, a house was to have beeu built for Dr Goring, the Imporial Commissioner, who had gone out there with bis whole family, but the chieftain Kamaherero declared the protectorate claimed by the German Company to be void, sent the missionaries away and prevented the buildidg of the Commissioner's habi-

tation. All this goes to show that the whole colony is collapsing. Its establishment was originally belittled by men like Herr Eichter Dr p Bamberger,' and other Liberal members of the German Parliament, . who spoke of Angra Pequena as little more than a sandhole —«» Saniheh —and if the official reports of the South-west African Company are to be believed—and why should they not ? it would seem that Luderiteland is as much in Queer-street as German East Africa and Gorman New Guinea.

% .A "Sell;" It has been stated by Mr P. T. Barnum's admirers that his success in the show business is dn« lo the fact, that the American people like to be humbugged, That may be a fact, and it is certain that there was a "sell" once perpetrated in Chicago which was heartily enjoyed by the victims. It was back in the sixties, rjjflji. an old residenter, when the jsulace'was startled by the lavish display upon dead Wall and kerbstone • of a "gutter snipe" bearing the announcement !'He is coming. 1 ' That was all, "Who "lie" was or when "he" was "coming" was nowhere stated. One Sunday morning tho newspapers heralded the fact that "He is here," and again the dead walls and kerbstones took up the cry and-told the same thing. ■. From the announcement it appeared that." he 1 ' was a " mystorious wonder" who would give marvellous exhibitions that night at Bryan Hall. The sensation created by the announcements "He is coming" and " He is here," attracted a great crowd to the hall that night, and the advent of the singular advertiser was eagerly /(watched for. At last the hall was WJAsi with paying people, and the Window of the box office was closed. AM tang, and up went the curtain. Alfjaat could be seon was a big sign reading "He is gone." He was, too, and with all the money, but the viotims enjoyed it."

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