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Marlborough Express, Volume XLIV, Issue 125, 3 June 1910, Page 4

On three occasions last week juries in the Supreme Court at Wellington returned without a verdict, having disagreed. , The last occasion Was on Thursday (says The Post), in connection with the re-trial of a, young man named Eberhardt Ferdinand Renner, -charged with having set fire to an unoccupied house at IVjadestown in December last. Accused had been tried at the last criminal sessions,, and the jury had disagreed, and accordingly a rehearing of the charge was ordered. On conclusion of the hearing of the case on Friday the jury visited the house and finally retired. After four hours'' they returned, and the foreman asked the -Chief Justice if he could accept an 11-12ths majority.. A reply in the negative was received, ana Mr W. H. D. Bell, who prosecuted for the Crown, made formal application for a new trial. His Honor questioned -whether there was any use trying the «case again in Wellington, remarking that he thought that the better course would be to order that the case be tried at Napier. _ He intimated that ne would give his decision next day -with respect to a fresh trial, and added: "I really do not know what justice is coming to. Here three juries nave disagreed within a week." For Influenza take Woods' Great Peppermint Cure. Never fails, la fid. 2s

A candid personal confession was made the other evening by the Hon. J. A. Millar, Minister for Railways (says the Otago Daily Times). Fields looked green at a distance, he averred, and many thought enviously of life of a member of Parliament, and particularly that of a Minister of "the Crown. But things, were not always what they seemed. Every office nad its trials and troubles. The economic and social problems awaiting so^ iution were increasing in importance •©very day, not only here but all over the world, and he sometimes thought younger and fresher brains should be "brought to the task. Experience, of course, he said, was a valuable asset, and it was that consideration which, •sometimes made it appear a diity for Mm to remain longer. He would say perfectly honestly that he had no desire to die in harness. With five more years of public life he would have given to the public about 25 years of strenuous toil, and he thought after •fchat a man was entitled £b a year or ■two of quiet before he left this earth. *That was what he was looking forward to.