I The Intelligent Vagrant.

Bruce Herald, Volume XI, Issue 1017, 11 June 1878, Page 5

I The Intelligent Vagrant.

r~ — :■■ ■■> I ;'*. Qtds seit an adjiciant JiQdierwx craatina sum~ mcc lempora di Superi" — Horace That was a fearful thing Miss Margaret Macdonald tried to do. By a'report in the Dunedin • Evening Star,' I see"that she was i brought up at the Police Court, before Mr | Watt, R.M., »nd her offence I presume was stated when Inspector Mallard said to the Magistrate "she has been trying to lead your Worship astray." I Verily they 1 have th&r reward. "• Messrs Rees and Hislo'p, MIH.R 's, have" received about £500 a piece for services rendered 'in the defence of "Jones." By the way, there are some curious items in the bill of costs of this case. " For consulting the BTon. Mr Stout and Mr Reed, about the Jury List " I' see] special charges are made. That is about the neatest way o' saying that Messrs Stout and Reed were good judges of how political sympathies ran amongst the special jurors that I have ever heard of. T,he Editor of this paper received a copy of a New South Wales Evangelistic] Magazine, • Words of Grace,' and with it the following ■• — "Supplement to Words of Grace,— Mr Editor,— By favouring vs v with notice you would give a worthy cause a fresh impulse, and greatly oblige yours truly, the Editor." 1 very much fear that if every newspaper editor who is asked to give a characteristic notice of *•, Words of Grace " does so, theresult will be more amusing than satisfactory. And' yet the publication is an excellent one, with a good object. The editor of it would have done much better if he had permitted it to recommend itself and had not asked for a .'".characteristic'?- notice, because the style ofsuch a notice depends so niuch on. the nature of the man who writes it. For instance, there' are many books of which, if characteristic notices were written, the language conveying them would be less nice than natural. Mr Bright, the Freethought lecturer is respoosibte for the following anecdote :— At an Episcopalian Church in Dunedin, called after the apostle who is presumed to have written the first gospel, there presented themselveß recently, just after Sunday service had commenced, two Chinamen. ' The visitors very quietly took their places amongst the free ■sittings/and- l had barely seated themselves,, when they were . turned, out of the building by some official, evidently of .the . same opinion a§ the sea captain who considered it cheek when the carpenter hinted that [, he might be Bayed as well as the officer. When the * New Zealand Sun ' copies any paragraphs of mine, I am exceedingly gratified, but my gratification would be still greater if such paragraphs when copied were acknowledged. A case in point is presented by a story of mine; which appeared recently, relative to the late Mr Rhodes of Wellington. '■' ■ ■ ■■' ■ - ! :.■■■■ ■ ■'■' -'■■ '• ~ ; ■• There is no truth in the report that, as a consequence of haying been gazetted a J.P., Mr Henry Clark has petitioned the Government, and -has suggested on the quiet to his friend' Mr Macaridrew, that it would be advisable to removethe Resident Magistrate's Court from Milton to Clarksville. A correspondent says:— " Hanging to the handle of a bank. door in Balclutha, on Friday, morning last, was found a bunch of very fine curls. Attached to them was a paper with the following lines upon it.:— Another sky you're going beneath, Then take, oh take this humble wreath To twine thy noble brows, my — - ."" ■'. At a meeting of creditors the other day a lawyer and the chairman seemed to be a little antagonistic. The lawyer said that the . meeting 3hould not be turned into a bear garden, aud the chairman said ''Certainly not ; this is not the Resident Magistrate's Court, you know," The lawyer aaked what was meant by that, and the chair man blandly replied, "Look at the morning . papers." The morning papers contained a; report of a little scene in Cotfrt, in which Meßsrs'Harris'and' Denniston figured, and the lawyer, who was one of the two gehtlemenj -did not • pursue the argument with the chairman. -