LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Evening Star, Issue 6480, 22 December 1883, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The protracted slander trial, in which Miss Pigot, late superintendent of tho Scottish Ladies' Association in Calcutta, sued the Rev. Mr Hastie, principal of the General Assembly's Institution, for 20,000 rupees as damages for defamation, has been finished. Mr Justice Morris held that Miss Pigot had been guilty of adultery with Boboo Kali Churn Banerjee, Dr Chundra, and Mr Wilson. One of the charges of cruelty brought against Miss Pigot by the Rev. Mr Haatie was, however, not proved, and His Lordship, therefore, gave judgment for the plaintiff, assessing the damages at one anna, and ordering each party to pay his own costs. There were 122 candidates for the Junior Civil Service Examinations in October. Of these 59 passed • 21 failed in English, 17 in arithmetic, 37 in history, and 37 in geography. W. H. Hall, of the Thames, headed the list with 1,896 marks out of a possible 2,400. The Dunedin candidates arc very low on the list—William Wilson, 1,411 marks, being eighteenth ; William T. Neill, North-eaßfi Harbor, Union street, and Sandyniount schools, nineteenth with 1,403 marks ; F. B.

Bolt, private school and Arthur street school, being twenty*-seventh with 1,826 rnarka J and W. H. Bawden* flrivata Hbkifcika State and Dunedin High Schools, thirty-Btkth, with 1.293 . itiarks; 3, G. Gibbi Edinburgh Dlinfedim i&d Miliph High Schools, Is twentieth on the list with 1,466 marks. Nelson carries 17 passes, Of the 37 candidates who presented themselves for the Senior Examination, 17 passed; 12 failed in English* 7in arithmetic, 3 in geography, 6 m Latin, 1 in Greek, lOin Frenoh, 2 m'trigonometry, 3 in physical science, 10 in algebra, and 8 in history. James Wither, Nelson College, heads the list with 3,7"§9 marks, & & trotter, also of Nelson, being next with 3,141. Nelson candidates also occupied the fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh places. J. B. Chrlstlfej bi fittnedin Middle District and Normal Schools, Is twelfth With % 140 marks. Thomas Biitctiientj of Dunedir-, Tokomairiro District Schtiol; and Chrifltchotch College, is thirteenth,with 8, llß_niafksi If ail tob-urca' di EnglaW faisoiis were animated by a like spirit to Mr Fitchett, such addresses as that given on the same platform by the Rev. Mr Jervois would never be heard. A man who can talk, and talk sensibly, about lawyera, beer, squatting, meat-freezing, the laboring classes, taxation, etc., will, other things being equal —and they are in Mr Fitehett/s cftse—do In* finitely more good than the clergyman who can talk nothing btit "shop," and who is only great upon such subjects as ritual, forms of worship, and other things of a purely formal^"well-nigh useless, character. A clergyman once, got to the heart of a tanner—a notorious drunkaid, blasphemer, and conversing with him about his trade, which he happened to understand, his own father having been in the. same business. The man was at church the following Sunday,, and answered all the remarks of surprise uttered by his neighbors by saying "He kens about leather, d'ye see." He became a reformed character and steady church-goer. Such homely talk as Mr Fitchettrs is likely to accomplish infinitely more practical good than the nonsensical rhodomontade of High Churchmen and Ritualists.—'Bruce Herald.'