ENGLISH EXTRACTS.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Volume I, Issue 34, 26 August 1863, Page 6

ENGLISH EXTRACTS.

(From the Home News, June 26.)

No less than 200 persons have left Cardiff en route for the Salt Lake. All these were believers in the Mormon imposture, and they are taken out to their adopted El Dorado under the protection and guidance of several of the socalled " Eiders," the funds for the purpose being provided by the Church. Another batch is to leave in two or three months from the South Wales district. It is believed that since the first appearance of the Latter-day Saints no less than 10,000 persons have been induced to leave Wales for the Salt Lake. It has transpired, however, that a great number, after receiving a free passage to New York, altered their minds, and quietly settled down in the States. On the 13th June a presentation of a somewhat unusual character took place at Marlbo-rough-house, t e Prince and Princess of Wales having been in attendance to receive the 13 New Zealanders who are now in England. During the interview, which lasted an hour, his royal highness asked them how they liked England, and by what they had been most impressed. To

this the elder chief Wharepapa, one of Hongi's warriors, eagerly replied that what had most surprised them as yet had been the railways. They had heard in their distant land of a mode of transit swift as a ball from a rifle, but had not been able to realise the fact until they visited the great glass-house at Sydenham, where the carved figures of men and women had also excited their admiration and astonishment. The prince conversed with them in the most friendly manner through their interpreter, and the New Zealanders emphatically assured his royal highness of the great desire of the New Zealand tribes to maintain the most friendly relations with this country. His royal highness cordially reciprocated this wish. Afterwards the New Zealand party proceeded to the residence of the Duke of Newcastle, where they took luncheon with his grace. The failure of Miss Rye's scheme of female emigration at Otago has occasioned much regret in England; but we cannot say that the result is considered very surprising. The want of a I proper organisation for the reception of the emi* grants was a defect in the project which could not fail to lead to disastrous cousequences. The fact, too, that these emigrants had gone out with a main view to balance the disproportion of the sexes in Otago, did not help the case. The fact ought not to have been made so prominent. The publicity given to that branch of the speculation had the inevitable effect of making the emigrants calculate upon matrimonial rather than any other kind of engagements, and at the same time of making the colonists who wanted wives very cautious now they approached ladies who were known to be looking out for husbands. An Ineligible Emigrant.-—A curious case has been tried in the BaiL Court. A man named Duggan brought an action for breach of contract against Messrs. Gann and Co., the agents to the New Zealand Government entrusted in this country with the sending out of emigrants. It seemed that they had agreed to send Duggan and his family out as Government emigrants, and that he made all his preparations accordingly. Before the time when he was to sail, however) the defendants gave him notice that he was ineligible, as not being a person of good character. His offence was that he had seduced a young girl, and the question for the jury really was whether this act, which he admitted, made him an improper person to be sent out to the colony. They decided that it did, and gave their verdict for the defendant.

" Kinahan's L.L."—Among the articles for the production of which Ireland is celebrated Kinahan's " LL" whisky has long held a foremost place. For more than half a century this potent though mild spirit has been the delight of every counoisseur, the attraction of every festive board. Mr. William Bolton, a grocer and formerly an apprentice of the Messrs. Kinahan, has been in the habit of selling a spirit which he distinguishes by the name of "Bolton's LL" and as the Messrs. Kinahan considered the use of those letters an infraction of their rights, they applied for an injunction to restrain him from further displaying them on his labels. The case was heard before the Master of the Kolls, and the matter was thought of sufficient importance to engage the talents of Sergeant Sullivan, Mr. Brewster, and the Solicitor-General. Sergeant Sullivan, who appeared for the petitioners, gave a history of the origin of the title. Upwards of 40 years ago the then Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, the Duke of Richmond, was so pleased with Kinahan's whisky that he purchased large quantities of it, and he gave directions that a vat should be set apart in the establishment of the firm for him, with the letters "LL" and a duoal coronet painted thereon. From that time the firm gave to the whisky so prepared the name of "LL" whisky, the letters being the initials for " Lord-Lieutenant." They had ever since used the letters "LL" to distinguish the whisky so prepared by them. All the corks had besides the letters, a ducal coronet impressed thereon. On the part of the respondent, the Solicitor-General contended that Mr. Bolton had used these marks for 10 years, and that the court could not now interfere with him. The court, however, thought the letters «■ LL" were a trade mark. The motion was ordered to stand over till the hearing of the cause, and in the meanwhile the Master of the Rolls expressed a wish that the respondent would disconunue the use of the letters.