BY THE WAY.
-yy.Ari!" information was sworn last week. ,1 aßaiosW-Gonslable Nestor,, of Eketihuna "-('Nbrtli isla'nnT; fo'rjperjury alleged -to have * . Ju_e-"fefc_-6_il'ted by him in swearing.to the 7 service of certain summonses. The case was g - to have been:h'ea,rd at Mastertoa on Tuesday >_"." last. -• -Tt -yWe/understanffitbat the Defence Minister 7""_ia_ declined to re-open ex-Constable Davis's a "case. : '•• ' ' ■~--' ; -Mr 'E. P." Field, a Sydney has been delivering in the streets of that city "mid-day sermons, which were enthusiastically received. ' Tha death is reported, at the age of • ninety two, of Qaartermaster-Berpeant Steel, .the oldest army pensioner in New Z. aland; B-) came to 'Auckland .- in 1819 ' under the command of Colonial Haultain. Sir. Robert Stout will defend Somervillo " . charged with the Masterton murder. ' In a letter^to Sir Henry Parkes, Lord : Jersey states that, the governorship of New , South Walea cost.him'L7Coo_i year, which is understood to mean in excess ef the - salary. ; •• ':"''.' -A Macleay (N.S.W.) clergyman possesses a Leghorn-hen which has S9t up a record for egg-laying. ;" No less than 280 eggs were laid in quick succession.. • ' . ' -Melbourne annually eats 80,000 cattle and 1,200,000 sheep ahd Jambs, yet, according to T. K. Bennett, a leading meat man. there is inspectorial supervision at only one of the abattoirs. " • Of 575. person's admitted to tbe lunatic . asylums of New Zealand last year, drink is ■' given as the oause in 47 cases and religion .in 17. , - The inspector of factories is likely to pro- . eeed against certaia publicans in Wellington - for omitting to give tbeir barmaids a weekly ha'f'holiday.- '
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Mataura Ensign, Issue 14, 1 August 1895, Page 3
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253BY THE WAY. Mataura Ensign, Issue 14, 1 August 1895, Page 3
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