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Westport Times, Volume III, Issue 596, 21 December 1869, Page 2

We understand that the lecture which Dr Giles lately delivered at Nelson on the subject of " Woman's Place in Creation " has been published in pamphlet-form. Publishers in these parts have not the courtesy to send copies of their publications to the Press, nor, so far as we are aware, have any copies of this lecture been received in Westport for sale, but no doubt they will be so soon, at some of the booksellers' shops, and, judging alone from the skeleton of the lecture which has already appeared in these columns, we estimate that readers will find that Dr Giles has treated a suggestive subject in the spirit of the times and with" the spirit of a careful student of social reform.

We learn from the Nelson Examiner that, by the Claud Hamilton Mr Eedwood has shipped to Canterbury, for the races there, two three-year-olds—Economy, a bay gelding, and Songstress, a bay filly. The gelding is entered for the Canterbury Jockey Handicap, and the filly for the Canterbury Derby, and both are promising animals. Mr Redwood's mares Peeress and Misfortune are already at Christchurch. Mr Eedwood has no horse entered for the Canterbury Cup this year, and for this, the great race of the meeting, Mr Stafford's Magenta will probably be the sole Nelson representative, although Lacenfeed is likewise entered for the same race. These two animals will be the only ones Mr Stafford will send to Canterbury this year, but Nebula and Lady Florence are both engaged in the Auckland meeting, which comes off on the first three days of the year.

Magistrates, as -well as witnesses in public courts, would do well to read this paragraph, which appears in the Greymouth Star :—" When a magistrate or a lawyer tells a witness he is only to answer such questions as may be put to him, and is told to hold his tongue, and to stand down, or wait till questions are put to him, he is to do neither; for it frequently happens that a lawyer will only want a portion of truth told, in which case a witness would be actually guilty of perjury if he were to withhold all that he knows—no matter whether it tells for or against the case he is called upon to give evidence. It is a very common mistake with magistrates and

members of the legal profession to suppose that the duty of a witness is only to answer such questions as maybe put to them." A fiax-mill belonging to Messrs Powick and Burroughes, at Tua Marina, Marlborough, has been destroyed by fire. Some of the sugar which caused the illness of a number of persons in Wellington and Oamaru has been analysed in the Government laboratory at Wellington, and found to contain a considerable quantity of arsenic. The Provincial Council of Southland have approved of re-union with Otago by a majority of 11 to 6. Recent home papers record the death of the Rev. Father M'Girr at London. The reverend gentleman was long and favorably known in the Hokitika district as a zealous and faithful clergyman. Before his death he bequeathed the whole of his property, amounting to about £SOOO, to the Roman Catholic church. Mackay, late Immigration officer in Canterbury, charged with embezzlement, has, upon a technical point, been acquitted, A boy twelve years of age, son of Mr Connolly, barrister-at-law, Picton, has been struck dead by lightning. By the same flash a horse which was standing a little distance off was killed. The Roman Catholic church at Wakefield was also struck, the cross destroyed, and several of the timbers split.