STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3990, 16 December 1891, Page 2

STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.

A Number of Sheep Killed. The thunderstorm of Saturday last '' " was more violent in the surrounding Mastdrton than'in the immediate neighbourhood of the town, and was particularly severe on the Opaki, where the thunder was almost deafening and the lightning extremely vivid, in extraordinary result of the lightning has been brought under our by Mr 0. Wilton, a farmer of the Opaki. He assures us that after the storm he discovered a number of. his sheep, cut and torn to pieces, all lying dead witnin a few yards of each other. Ono of the ewes was almost severed in two, another was completely disembowelled, whilst a third was terribly burned about the head. Several other farmers in the district also lost Bheep in the sanit manner, and there can be little doubt but that they were struck by they lightning, This is the first occur* "' rence of the kind that has ever been reported in the district.

LIBtLMJTION. Srison y. Thornton and StnrlOßi By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Wednesday. In the libel case thirißorning Mr Thompson, of the firm of Brown, , Thompson and Co, gave evidence of* the existence of sweating in the] Catholic Times offioe, his authority ' being of a capable compositor who only received wages ; of 32s 6d perr week, whereas b.9 was-Jully entitled to £B. John Bigg, a member of the Typographical Society, and PresU / dent of the Trades and Labour Counoil, deposed tha't the statements wade in the letter to Archbishop Redwood as to the existence 'of f sweating in the Catlwlic Times office were based upohinformationjgiven to the Board of the Typographical Society by a late employ 6 of the Catholic Times. ' Witness had read x the papal encyclical and utterances of Cardinal Moran, and as they seemed/ to him to condemn sweating it was concluded that Archbishop Redwood must have been kept in ignorance of the,existence of sweating in his office. As to tb.9 statement in the letter that it would be degradation ' for the Society to be obliged to com*■ municate with Mr Evuon, the word ' was used in two senses ; firstly, that they would be degraded in a- certain degree by being referred -to by the ' Archbishop to an inferior; - and, secondly, it would be degradation to ' be referred to as a man who was, in '." witness' opinion,a religious' adven- . curer, and a man who would sell hia religious belief to the highest; bidder,,' for the purpose of making money. -'- ;

WOrVIENSRIGHTS. Aniatirestl&ffOaii.

An interesting case regarding the tights and married women was decidea in tli9 Resident Magistrates Court, Wei* lington, on MondayT. J. Foltas sued Mr andflrs J. H. Pollook for meat supplied, nie male defendant admitted the debt, but the female defendant disputed '' her liability. For the plaintiff it was proved tint when Pollock commended business in Courtenay Place he had little money; hiß wife's money bought everything required, a cart, which he obtained partly on credit - in his own name. The money taken in the business was chiefly paid into', his wife's banking account, and Mrs Pollock signed cheques as required by her husband. The defendants denied that Mrs Pollock was interested in ' the business, except as obtaining re-' payment of monies advanced by her. His Worship held that all the circumstances pointed to a liability .*, assumed by Mrs. Pollook,. she had separate of which it might bo assumed that she contracted, judgment must go against both defendants for £Q 8s 6d, amount of claim, and 30s costs. Mr Haselden appeared for the plaintiff, '. and Mr Williams -for 'defendants. The case of 0. W. Bauks against the ' same defendants, a claim of £2O 19a 4d, also resulted in a verdict for th« plaintiff, with £4 Is costs; Mr Haselden acting for the plaintiff, aai defendants conducting their own can. — Timet. - . '

A revolt has broken oat in Hon* daras. Fourteen thousand insurgents are reported to be attacking, the ~ troops t>f'General Velasquez, Govt*. " norofOholuteeo. '*•>■.-♦ - -