NEWS & NOTES.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXXII, Issue 225, 15 October 1897, Page 1

NEWS & NOTES.

■Mrunted Constable P.ice is now mi n possession of n fi,, e serviceable troop horse. Tbe animal, which is aged about seven years, , nd served his apprenticeship m Wellington, came across the Str.it. m tbe Takapuaa, and was ridden from Picon by Mounted Constable Price yesterday. Reports from Olago and Canterbury state that throughout those districts both crnps aad eras, are m excellent condition, ami tbe season so far is one of greHt promise for the farmer*. A TV.urnnga nativa who was recently s^ut to the M^ori kin»'s tohunga by bis friends to be cv ,d of an illneas, B up. posed ta be "makutu," has returned none tbe better for his trip. The mam of the tohong* was apparently not enough. When tbe prwent Lord Devon's father visited his vast estates m Lim»r. : off, he was informed that uo member of the family had viijited them Bit a the time of Charles 11. A^ain, until the late Lord Portsmouth visited his property m Wexfcrd, it was a tradition that uo bearer of the title had even been there. The difference b twoen the profes sional opinion of a paid advocate and the boneßt oouviction of a learned man was set forth by a well-known barrister who died recently, write* the Duoedin Star. It was a case of murder, and client and counsel were closeted together. " Smith," B aid the barrister, "of oourse I know you didn't murder the man, but as a matter of fact did you do it wi'h the butt end of a revolver or with a stick P" " Sir," said Smith, " i sweitrl nm innocent." "I know that perfectly well, but you must tell me. For if you did it with the revolver I shall say at tbe prosecution 'Produce the stick !' and if you did it whh the atick I frhftll say 'Produce tbe revolver!'" The clipnt paused, scotched bis head, and said meditatively "It was the butt eLd of the revolver, sir." " That's right," said counsel ; " I think lean get you off now. :> Tbe horrible experiences of Mr A. H. Savage 1 andor, while travelling m Tibet, as reoorded m our cable coli mns the other day eeeui to be the penalty which explorers of that mysterious country must be prepared to pay. Ever Bince Tibet become a Chinese province at the beginning of the eighteenth century, the HU'borities have put every rbateole m the way of opening up the country. Tbe firßt Englishman (o travel m Tibat was George Bogle, who was despatobed by Warren Haßtines m 1744, but whs prevented by the Chines* from proceeding to Lhatsa, the capital, and was obliged to return m Jute, 1775. In 1811 Thomas Manning was successful m reHcbing Lhassa. In 1889-90 a journey was m*d» by M. Bouvalot und Prince Henry of OJeu a across Central Asia from Kulfcj* to Torquiu, but the practical efforts of the Fretioh to open their route signally failed. Iv 1894 a commercial treaty was concluded between Tibet aiid Britain, under which foreign trarieia were admitted to Yatunp', a frontier town ; but the irope uosity of irresp untie missionmif-s, who attempted through Yatung to enter forbidden territory, has led to much jf;slous exoitemeut tn the part of the Tibetan authorities, and a wall is said to have been constructed so 88 to act as a barrier betweeu Tibet and Yatung. Ciefe divisions do not exist m Tibet. Polygamy is common among the more wealth}', and among the people generally polyandry prevails owing to the general poverty. The tone of morality is low, and the people are eunk m ignorance and superstition. Their religion is Buddhism. The question whether the ordinary fowl of commerce— the objectionable denizen of our neighbors' yards— is an animnl was honded over to Mr Justice Edwards (says the Post) m the form of an appeal from tbe decision of Messrs H. Eyre Eenoy, S.M., end J. Wilkins, justice, given at the Lower Hutt m the case of William Koutely v. Carl PoU. Koutlev charged PoU with having shot a fowl belonging to the informant on Poll's land, and failed witbin 24 hours to send m m writing a description of the eniotal so destroyed, etc., to tbe owner or to tbe nearest police station. Tbe Bench dismissed the information on tbe grouuds that tbe provisions of the Impounding Act relating to tbo sending of a written description of the animal destroyed, did not apply to the destruo tion of a fowl, a fowl not b?iog an animal witbin the meaning of the sectiou. Rnutley appealed agiinet this ingenious contention, and for him Mr Bunny appeared, Mr Wilford, the author of the contention, appeared for the respondent. Much legal wit was wasted on tbe conundrum, '' When is a fowl not a fowl?" It was ducovere d that sponges were animals, likewise whales ; but it was a great pity for the cause of science that no pronouncement was made on the origin of whitebait. 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