EPITOME OF NEWS.

Lake County Press, Issue 498, 21 April 1892, Page 2

EPITOME OF NEWS.

Queenstown made a very creditable show in the football match against Winton on Monday. A witness in the Court last week informed the Bench that certain had been “ harassed in a most '-miraculous manner.” The Bench smiled, and the smile spread until it reached a childlike Chinaman, and even ho smiled broadly. Deeming has has been examined by four doctors, who pronounced him to be perfectly sane.

Lo d Carrington, in the course oi air address, said it was worth the journey to Australia to note the absence of class hatred and religious prejudice.

European Anarchists continue active.

It is rumored that Mr John Dillon intends retiring from politics becauseMr Timothy Healy intrigued for the c >ntrol of the United Ireland journal' The Salvation Army MarriageBureau expects a thousand persons to apply for its assistance in promoting’ matrimony monthly. The attempt to float off the Elginshire by pumping air into her has failed. Dunedin millers are trying- Jn a game of bluff to keep down the price of wheat.

Within tiie past six months five Dunedin butchers have gone bankrupt.

M. Leon Driver, the marvellous pianist, is coming this way. From a praivate and reliable source we are assured that he will be well worth

hearing.

At Dunedin last week- Mr JusticeWilliams delivered judgment in the case James Robertson Scott v. John M‘Farlane Ritchie, William- Henderson, and. the National Mortgage and Agency Company of New Zealand, an action for indemnity respecting a pastoral? license, which, it is alleged, was secured in the plaintiff’s name for the use and I benefit of the defendants ; and that the plaintiff acted as agent for defoliants in the purchase of the run. His Honor gave judgment in the action for plaintiff, with costs on the highest scale. The Oamaru Mail wants to baaasured that Hall, the Timaru poisoner, is still in gaol, and asserts that, out of sympathy for his friends (who move in polite circles), all the facts of Hall’s career were not brought out at the trial. It repeats statements made then, that Hull had also murdered his partner and an unsuspecting and’inoffensive young woman on whom he practised his unbridled lechery.. Two brothers named Adolphus antiJoseph Dixon quarrelled at Sydney on the loth inst and came to blows. The former armed himself with an axe and‘ the latter with a bayonet, which he drove into his brother’s brain through, his eye, killing him instantly. The Sydney Morning Herald regards the proposal of the New Z-aland Government for the election of justices as full of danger, anti is no doubt meant as a preliminary to the entire adoption of the American principle of making: the judges and magistrates hold their their positions by popular suffrage. It concludes by stating that if New Zealand puts the matter to the test Australia will profit by watching results. i r lf American, the change would be an improvement on the present system]] An armed soldier, who had secretedhimself in the pulpit, attacked the priest in a Madrid Church on Good Friday, gashing him terribly- with his sword. He also shot dead a female member of the congregation and wounded others. Much dissension is reported amongst the Irish political parties.. A thousand cattlh thieves in Omaha intend to have a conflict with the cowboys. All European Governments are taking stringent measures to repress disorder on May Day. A lock-out of 50,000 yarn pro lasers is considered inevitable at Home, audit is possible 7,000 will be affected.