DUNEDIN.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3592, 16 January 1883, Page 3

DUNEDIN.

This day

The engine-driver of the 10 o'clock uptraiu to Oamaru fell oft' the engine after leaving Pahnerston, and received a .severe blow on the forehead, which rendered him insensible. It is supposed that he missed his footing in turning a sharp curve. Mr Carew, KM., has delivered an important judgment on the question of imprisonment for debt. He said that many plaintiffs came into Court asking for orders of imprisemneut, and evidently misapprehending the meaning of the Act in regard to the means which a defendant must be proved to have of paying , the debt. He took it to be the policy of the Act that no person should be imprisoned for debt in the absence of fraud, and he interpreted the words '' sTifneienfc means and ability to pay to mean over and above what was reasonably necessary for the support and maintenance of the debtor and his wife and family, if ho had any. ' ' Bishop Moran, during his speech at the nomination, yesterday, in •■ referring , to the strictures passed upon him by a local paper,

said ho had been told by a paper that morning that he had been sent by the Pope under instructions. He did not want to say anything disrespectful, but would give them his advice to try and not let old women be the editors of newspapers. (Loud laughter and applause.) He was there under instructions from no one, and he was obeying the orders of no one. He asked the "electors not to reject him because he was a Catholic, and advocated justice to 70,000 people, because if they did it would be a disgrace, and would result in injury to them and to the community at large in the long run. Two lads employed in a butcher's shop at Port Chalmers had quarrelled about a knife yesterday afternoon, and the quarrel ended in one of the lads, named White, driving the knife through the thigh of the other named Hamock. White was arrested, and expresses sorrow for his hasty action.