AUCKLAND, Last Night. THE PONSONBY RAPE CASE.

Waikato Times, Volume XIV, Issue 1191, 14 February 1880, Page 2

AUCKLAND, Last Night. THE PONSONBY RAPE CASE.

Hughes is committed for trial ou a charge of attempted rape on his servant girl. A man named Breen, a stock-driver, haa been arrested charged with a criminal assault on a little girl who had been sent out into the ti-treo after cattle.

Wives of great men oft remind us We should pick our wives with care ; So we may not leave behind us. Half our natural crop of hair. We don't know whether it ia old or not, but we heard a lady ask a friend, in a street car, the other day: "Annie, is it proper to say this 'ere, and that J ere?" " Why, Kate, of course not," was the reply. " Well," said Kate, ' ' I don't know whether it ia proper or not, but I feel cold in this ear from that air." The conductor fainted. — Phrfa. Item.

The New York Hebald on Me Pabnell's Visit.— The New Yotfk Herald gives the following good advice to the Irish people in the United States : ' 'If MrParnell oould carry out his crazy programme, mud cabins would be as numerous ten years hence in Ireland as in 1841. What we say, therefore, to the Irish of the United States is not to give one cent for Mr Parnell and his crowd, but millions to help emigration to this country. Here is room for all who come ; cheap, fertile lands : every Irish family may easily, with industry and economy, own its own acres ; here is work at good wages ; no landlords, no bailiffs; but let us have no Fenian nonsense, no proposition to free Ireland by processions three thousand inileb off. That does no good ; it only fills adventurers* and. demagogue^' pockete.