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GL E ANINGS.

At Brentfoud, , England, .1 policeman was conveying to the lock-iip a man charged with assault ami battery, when he saw a man steal a side of bacon from a shoo. The policeman, accompanied by the prisoner, started off in puvsrt lt, but the thidf was outrunning them both, the "policeman asked the prisoner to wait at a certain spot whi'c lie continned in pcrsnit. The constable captured the thief and thooacon,andonhisietiirn fortiul tire prisonei' trao to his word. The bacon chief was convicted, and the other man whon brought before the magistrate- was discharged, in consideration of his aid to the police and his honorable adherence to his promise. Owxixo up 3Jiuvi:lv. — The flew England Farmer in its review of the late report of the Secretary of the Massachnsetta r J|6ard of Agriculture" has the, followlrtg to say of the^lairy business 6f the West :—": — " The superiority of the Western creamery product became ! especially manifest when, in 1576, at the Centennial Exposition, the gold medals ! for both spring and fall butter went from the East — passing the ' famous dairies of New York -vv. ith their eentnry of renown ; past the rich farms Chester and Lancaster (counties in Pennsylvania), where the spring houses cool the pans that have made Philadelphian butter the synonym of dairy excellence — and were awarded to creameries in lowa and Illinois. The Eastern (people, were not convinced of the situation by this single success ; but the next year at Chicago, in a full competition, the creameries of Wisconsin and Illinois were decorated with the medals. At the international shows in New York in 1878 and 1579, lowa, Wisconsin, and Illinois left only a lit th premium to the Eastern private dairies, Nor \\ ere these temporary successes with special lots of show-butter — thdy have competed with ns in the Boston maikets ; and leaving out of the question some of the dairies of high repute that have a demand at fancy price from established customers, the creamery product of lowa, Wisconsin and Illinois has brought 10 per cent more nioney in the open market than the choicest New England product. This is owing to its high average quality and uniformity, not for one shipment or carload, not for a hundred tubs, but for continuous, sustained excellence of the product from season to season." In the "Contemporary Review " appear an article on "Eieueh Piisous and Convict Establishments." The wiiter observes : — "French female pi isoncrs and convicts are treated with more kindness, on the whole than pci sons of their class are in England. Their matrons and wardresses arc Augustine nuns, whose rule, though firm, is gentler, and more steadfastly equitable than that of laywomen could be. The female convicts are allowed the same pnvilcges as the men, in the matter of earning money and buying things at the canteen. Those of them who are young also enjoy a privilege not gnnted to female convicts 111 other countiies — that of having husbands piovided for them by the State. Only these husbands must bo convicts. Every six months a notiuj is circulated in the female peniteiiti.il ic-*, calling upon all women who ieel minded to go out New Caledonia and be married, to make an application to that cllcct thiongh the Oovernor. Elderly ■women ate always very prompt in making such application 1 -; but they aie not cutei tamed. The matiimonial candidates must be young, and exempt from physical mfiimitins. (Jirls under long sentence leadily catch at this method of escaping horn the intolerable tedium of prison life ; and the pictty one&aie ccit.unto bo put on the Governor's list, no matter how fiightful may bo the cirines for which they have been sentenced. The only 11101 a 1 qualification lequisite is to ha\e passed at least two years in the penitentiary. The selected candidates ha\ c sign to engagements promising to inairy convicts and to settle in New Caledonia for the lemaind of their h\cs. On these conditions, G'oveinment tiansports them, gi\c\s them a decent outfit and .i tickct-ot-lea\es when they land at Noumea. Their niai liases ariangcd foi them by the (iovemoi ot the colon j , whe has a .selection of well-behaved convicts icady for thorn to chose for ;and each gnl may consult her own fane) within coit.iin limits, loi tlu juopnition o' iii.iiij'.i^imljlo 111011 to woim 11 is about tlm 1 (.0 one '' O\l. of those Luncntalili u\ r -i> which <-poik of .1 iMicei clohil in uimi th.it opciud undei exceptional advantages ,uid piomiso cvm 1 1 itel}' lieloie the JWeonlei at Poil-.ioulii. Evehn Heil.ut Dili> mplc Cl.uk stood ehiii'.'ed v ith stealing >„'.!"> tiom .1 ilv IIJ m^-liD'i-» 'I Jio i i\si was hilly pio L.I, /in.l !)■ w.b si'itlviiccd to >i\ niontl)-. iiii|»ii'-(iiiiii" it vutli lin<l laboi. The Jullowmcf wen fuimslK'd as tllC pull til 111. Us Ot Ills L.lltel lie Wls tll'J sun nl ,1 iremi'l in tli< 1 ny Ho had enlisted 111 tin- TStli Jtt *_ii-i«-Mif, and dad puiehiisid his dis> hai ire. l!< hadniauieu a woman i! lined Aiil" 1, w liose p.ucnts kept a liotd.it i'.iinhiin. iiom whom In was su|iaiiit''il ; lie was at I lie piesent time in the Sussex Militia, .md he had been committed toi tiiul aii'l acquitted at .Southampton 011 a chut;" of obtuning £102 on false inuicnccs. Tl opi isoner, in along wlllte.ll defence, uiued that the ciime was toinnntt' d undei the impulse of the moment Pusonci expie-j&edgicat iemor<!C, and aslvtd foi nu><\. J{e s-aiil his iiithcr si rvid as a at Wateiloo, and his breast boic s.x medals. The Keconler earnestly enW ited him to pio\e his penitence ; lie. con l 1, howovei, only pass upon him as a «t'iitleniin the same sentence as he wou'd upon a poor man. WilTTsrNTiiir- \T Hum 1 —Now, says '' Atl.is" in the U'oilrf, ate (oino the days of t.ig yellow vans and small children waving flags, and shouting at foi t3'-child power, fiightcning houes and their riders in the sunny noontide, and making the summer twliglit hideous for those who dwell upon suburban high-loads. Now do the penny papeis wax- .sentimental exceedingly, and ovei How w ith elegant gush upon the delights of a day in the country for these little ones 'Let me go just astcpfurtnVi, and suggest a fortnight m the country — tin oc weeks 111 the country. It can be done, madam, foi the piice of your last p iii of open woik stockings, or thos'j embundered gloves •which so grace a perfect hand. I know a younirlady in theXew Forest who has been carrying down sickly little Whitechapel childien to the woodland glades, billeting them om clean motheily cottageis, and giving thun tlnce weeks' run under becchen bopyhs and in fir plantations n her* 1 the gicund is bluci than the skies with wld hyacinths. 0 the delight of these London waifs, their rapture in coming home with a lapful of wild flowers, their fear lest a single blossom should be waited or trampled undei* foot ! The thiee, weeks' holiday can be managed for a. soveieign a head railway expenses included, thanks to the liberality of the South Western Railway Company. Why do not other young ladies, living in the country places, occupy themselves in the same way ? A whip^round among the'r friends would soon provide the necessu v funds. Trui increase of steam traffic to Australia is shown in thercpoit of the Suez Canal managers. In' 18S0 the vessels bound direct for Australia numbered 51, while in 1881 the number had increased tojflGi', During the past year 4Q new vessels were added to the existing steamhip lines,

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Waikato Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1604, 14 October 1882, Page 4

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GLEANINGS. Waikato Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1604, 14 October 1882, Page 4

GLEANINGS. Waikato Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1604, 14 October 1882, Page 4

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