Victorian Reform Bill. Melbourne, May 17.

Waikato Times, Volume XVI, Issue 1385, 19 May 1881, Page 2

Victorian Reform Bill. Melbourne, May 17.

It has transpired that at a Cabinet Council, held yesterday, it was decided to accept the Reform Bill as returned by the Legislative Council, subject to the £20 rating qualification for occupiers, and some other modifications being adopted. The Hon. Graham Berry made a speech last night, in which, in referring to the decision of the Cabinet, he said that the acceptance of the Legislative Council's amendments would not, he feared, bring about a final settlement of the Reform question.

A new ltnin collar for ladies is worn standing all round ; that is, without points turned over in front. Quaint bunches of flowers and seaweeds, with long ends trailing over the dress, are much worn with evening dresses of thin materials. Burke, Lynch, and Boycott.— lt is a curious thing that three of the most expressive words in the Euglish language should have been added to it, if not by Irishmen, at least by men belonging bv residence or descent to the west of Ireland. To Burke, to Lynch, and to Boycott have all taken their places, if not exactly in classical literature, at least in the vernacular of the English-speaking race all over the world. There is as little dispute as to the identity of the Mr Burke whose name became a synonym for murder as to that' of Captain Boycott, but there is some doubt ad to who was the original Mr Lynch. There have been several Lynches remarkable for taking the law into their own hands. A Virginian farmer of that name, who flogged a thief with his own hands, has probably no claim to the honour asoribed to him by a doubtful tradition. The claims of Judge Lynch, who was sent out to supprest piracy in America in 1*587-8, are more substantial ; but the genuine aboriginal Lynch is said to have been Mayor of Gralway at the close of the fifeenth century, and to have made his name famous by hanging his son with his own hands out of on upper window, in execution of a- death sentence passed upon him for rdßbery and murder.— Pall Mall Gfasciie,