Untitled

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume I, Issue 14, 12 July 1887, Page 4

Benjamin Moore, who died in Berlin recently, left by will a reward of two florins for every policeman reporting a case of cruelty to animals. “As men have no hearts,” he writes in his will, “I leave my money to the brutes." And he did, enriching the Berlin Society for the Protection of Animals by nearly 200,000 florins. A breach of promise case has been heard at Belfast, in which the plaintiff was Margaret Wilkinson, the daughter of a tenant farmer near Ballycastle, and the defendant John Cameron, a blacksmith, of the same place. The courtship, it appeared, had lasted about twenty years. The defendant then asked the plaintiff how much she would want if there was a breach of promise, and she replied /800. The jury awarded her Z 275.

A well-known resident in the Temuka district the other day volunteered to add to the Jubilee procession an elaborate and gruesome equippage consisting of a cart containing a gallows and himself habited as Calcraft, with the inscription “Her Majesty’s hangman.” The Marshal however didn’t catch on and the concern was not allowed to proceed.