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Marlborough Press, Volume XXI, Issue 1249, 19 November 1880, Page 2

The following original advertisement appeared in a Northern paper :—“ Marriage.—Butler Reid,— On tile 24th instant, at St Peter’s Church, Edwin Butler, bullockdriver, of Upper Uutt, to Alice Emily Reid, of Wadestown. No cards, no cakes, no nothing.”

The ten per cent. Government reductions have caused some little amusement at Te Awamutu. one of the cavalry officers paid by Government has not only received instructions that his salary is reduced by ten per cent., hut that his horse’s feed is reduced by a similar amount.

This is what a scientist says :— l< I’he skulls of the African negroes are dolichoecephalic, mesoeoplmlic, prognathous, palthrhrine, and mesoseme ; while the Adamese are brachycophalic. microcephalic, riiesogathous, mesorhine, and megaseme.” Peruse this carefully gentle reader, and then feel your head to see if it is so.

The Taranaki Herald says that a new compound has been tried for smelting iron sand Mr E. M. Smith produces in half an hour onough metal from Taranaki sand to enable him to cast a cog wheel, which was accomplished in a most satisfactory manner, There are the elements of a great industry here. At one of the tanneries in Nelson, some excellent leather, the Chrome process, has been turned out, although in very limited quantity. Toe leather is pronounced by the trade to be very superior. Its manufacture, occupied only abo'ut a month, and great saving both as regards care and time is claimed It is confidently expected the Chrome deposits of the neighborhood will be shortly worked to advantage.

One of tho unemployed who lately left Wellington by the Kero, for Sydney, seems to bo thoroughly satisfied with his new home, lie has written to a friend in Wellington, and narrates his experience as regards the labor market. Carpenters, bricklayers, and plasterers are in demand at IDs. per day of eight hours; painters get 9». and laborers 7s. ami 8s Good meals can be obtained at Gd., and taking all circumstances into consideration, ho eonuludes that Sydney has the advantage of New Zealand as a field for the unemployed.

There is at present in Melbourne (a Victorian paper says), and will be on exhibition on Friday, tho most enormous pig probably that has ever been shewn in Australia. The animal, which was bred at Brandy Creek, scales between 1300 and 140011)6.; yet, singular to say, is by no means fat, in fact is rather out of flush than otherwise. The peculiarity of the animal is the size of its frame, so to speak, ns he measures nearly nine feet from snout to tail, and stands over four feet in height. Experienced men say that another 300 lbs could be fed on to his weight without much trouble. A man named Alfred Campion, a storekeeper in Wellington, lias been fined £IOO or six months’ imprisonment, for having forty pounds of smuggled tobacco in his possession, and a sailor named Stowe was fined £SO for aiding and abetting in the offence. It is rumored that the Government have received hints of intended smuggling on an extensive scale at various points on tha coast, owing to the encouragement offered by the present heavy tariff, and that arrangements are being ma.de to procure suitable revenue cruisers to keep a look out round the coast.

Duriiur the Banco sitting, Wellington, his Honor the Chief Jus*ice remarked it was a curious fact that the working of the [bankruptcy laws depended upon a few private individuals. If the newspaper proprietors should choose to refuse an advertisement announcing insolvency, the whole process of bankruptcy would come to a stop. It may be added that if a fi>h should refu«e to stay in the water its life would come to a stop. When newspaper proprietors refuse advertisement# the world will cease to revole on its axis, and the millennium will begin next day. << Asmodeus,” in the New Zealand Mail, says :—One of tho candidates at a village confirmation displayed great obtuseneos in answering the questions put to him, which caused the Bishop, who was anxious to know what education the young mao had received, to a»k him ” Who brought you up ?” And the youDg man answered and said, Nobody brought me up, sir. I walked up acrois the fields, for that was the nighest cut.” The Bishop was observed to press his lips firmly, und another candidate half swallowed a handkerchief he put in his niotith to dam back a groat head of laughter that was about to flow.

The following fees are now payable under the Land Transfer Act To Di»trict Land Registrar#, for single certificates in lieu of Crown grant, the same fee# as upon issue and registration of Crown grant; if several certificates in lieu of single grant—For each certificate, £1 ; acreage and assurance fee in addition to be apportioned and charged in aggregate a# on Crown grant ; certificate not otherwise charged, £1 To Registrars of Supreme Court —In respect of any sale conducted by Registrar or DeputyRegistrar, payable out of purchase money on completion of purchase—One per cent, on purchase money if not exceeding £2OO ; if exceeding £2OO, then 1 percent, on £2OO, and £ per cent, on remainder of purchase money.

During the hearing of a case in the Tiinaru Resident Magistrate’s Court the question of the admissibility of newspaper advertisements as evidence eropp-d up. Mr Perry wishes to put in a copy of a newspaper to show that a certain notification had been published. This was objectel to by Mr Hamersley, on the ground that the printed was merely a copy, and the original manuscript ought to be produced, audits authenticity proved. Mr Perry replied that so far as the public were concerned, tiie printed advertisement was the original The Magistrate was also of opinion that the newspaper being the vehicle by which the information was conveyed to those interested, it should be takon as evidence. The local Herald says that common sense pointed in this direction at any rate, but unfortunately the law often ran counter to common sense.

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