PROVINCIAL AND COLONIAL.

Cromwell Argus, Volume VII, Issue 331, 14 March 1876, Page 5

PROVINCIAL AND COLONIAL.

By a ruling of Jude Ward in the District Court, Milton, the District Courts have no jurisdiction in a case of larceny as a servant.

A Maori is said to have been murdered at Mercury Bay by a half-caste. It appears the two men were engaged playing cards, when a quarrel ensued, and the half-caste despatched the Maori with a tomahawk. It is well for people to know that persons who do not render assistance when called upon by the police, render themselves liable to a fine of £lO, or one month's imprisonment. A .cabman in Christchurclr ha 3 been fined 40s for refusing to assist a policeman in arresting an obstreperous prisoner.

Fifty applications at- the immigration barracks, and not a single girl to be had h No wonder (remarks the Argus) servant-girlism can boast of its " ring" and dictate terms in Wellington. There are a hundred, families, to put it moderately, who are prepared to pay high wages for good servants, but they are not to be had. Could not the Government send out 500 single girls to each Province before finally putting a stop to emigration 1 A case of typhoid fever has occurred in a somewhat singular manner, in the person of Miss Dougal, eldest daugter of Mr Dougal, barrack-master, Quarantine Island, Port Chalmers. She is aged sixteen, and is accustomed to assist her father in his duties. On Saturday the 26th ult., five days after the Corona's immigrants had been admitted to pratique, she accompanied him before breakfast to the hospital, to help to clean the place out. It is to be borne in mind that one or two families who came out in the Corona suffered from typhoid fever, and were placed in the hospital of the Quarantine Island—also that after their removal from the hospital on the 21st ult., the hospital was supposed to have been thoroughly disinfected. That infection, however, still lurked there, has been rendered tolerably patent by Miss Dougal's case. Dr Drysdale is of opinion, and has intimated as much to the Board of Health, that the girl was smitten by atmospheric infection, an infection that had lurked about the hospital for five days, spite of the disinfecting process pursued after the immigrants left. There was nothing in fact to communicate the infection but the atmosphere, the bedding, clothes, &c, used by the patients, having been destroyed.— Daily Times.

Mr W. Talboys, London House Drapery Establishment, wants everybody to know that he is clearing out his sbok of Drapery, Millinery, Clothing, Boots and Shoes at a shade over cost price. He desires to draw attention to the prices quoted in his advertisement in another part of the paper, which will satisfy the reader that he really means business, and is determined that purchasers will have no cause to go away without being persuaded of the bonajidp.fi of this Clearing Sale.—Note the address—Talboys, London Housic Advt.

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