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Mataura Ensign, 27 September 1913, Page 6

A judgment debtor who appeared at the Auckland Magistrate's Court lastweek had during the last four years- losttwo wives and one child. He had also been burned out of house and home once, and his one remaining child had become paralysed. Tlit; magistrate refused to make an order. •The Manilla correspondent of tin* Kvdney 'Daily Telegraph' reports that a merino ewe. the property of Mr R. Kirk. of Riverdale, has given birth to five crosshred lambs, four of which are living. The sale is reported by the same paper of Young Gentleman, a. two-year-old ram, from Messrs Body Bros., Bundemar Stud, Trangie, to Messrs Henry Collins and' Co., of Lucemedale, South Australia, for 1000 guineas.

The pressure of judicial work in Mr Justice Gordon's No. 1 Divorce Courthas been so great of late that a proportion of the unhappy domestic knots sent to him have had to be transferred to Mr Justice Street to unravel (state's the Sydney 'Daily Telegraph'). The Chief Judge in Divorce, while ihe has been pestered out of patience with i human matrimonial troubles, has, however, achieved a wonderful compliment, and that from nature. Just- over the skylight in his con it a pair of doves have established their home, and the other day, while Ids Honor was pronouncing the dissolution of the marriage of two (highly-placed and wealthy people, the softly penetrating "coo-coo" of the brooding dove almost induced the courtorderly to cry "Sileneo!"

Someone who apparently forgot to leave his card seems to have been traced rather simply (says the 'Dominion'). He was motor-cycling along Willis Street (Wellington) and ran into an old man, who was a good deal knocked about- The cyclist did not remain long enough at the. scene of the accident to see the injured man carried into an office near-by; he rode away without leaving name or address. Howover, tho number of his bicycle was noticed by the motorman of a tramcar which was passing at the time, and this handy piece of observation played its- part iri a matter which has been the subject of litigation, and which litigation resulted in -the injured man being awarded £4O damages against the cyclist. Dr McArthur was on the bench. Tho income-tax is levied in India on all incomes of £33 and upwards, and then only one man in 700 comes within its scope-.