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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1289, 12 November 1896, Page 19

The criminal sessions of the Supreme Court open on Monday next. The following is the list of cases set down for hearing : Thomas Curtis, Walter Curtis and James Mitchell, assault and robbery; Robert M. Kirk, indecent assault; Alfred C. Rowe, theft; William Potter and John Gibson, assault and robbery; Norman G-. Hall, forgery; James Shore, murder; Susan Shortt, procuring miscarriage ; Joseph Kenny, wounding with intent to maim; Stephen Bosher, theft; John Sheppsrd, theft (two charges) ; Lopez E. Wilkes, theft (two charges) ; Harold Heath, theft; Robert Henry Crocker, theft; William Coombs, accepting a bribe ; George J. Scott, giving a bribe to defeat the course of justice; Mary Ann Sayer, procuring abortion; John Taggart, alias James Casey, theft.

The real cause of the punishment of Li Hung Chang by fining: him a year's salary is said to be that he proposed that European ceremony bo adopted in saluting the Emperor.

"I won't say behind your face what I would not say before your back .'"was the concise information given by a Pahiatiia county councillor the other day to a person with whom he was talking.

Lady Mary Murray was one of the most earnest speakers at a recent meeting of trade unionists in Edinburgh to promote women's trade unions. Lady Mary i.s the eldest daughter of the Earl and Countess of Carlisle, and is married to the brilliant Anglo-colonial l J ro)'.;sf.or George (Gilbert Mux-ray. Professor Murray succeeded Professor Jebb in the Greek Chair at Glasgow when he was only in his 24th year, and was thus the youngest man ever elected to a first-class chair in any of tho great Universities. The Greek professorship is valued at about .£2OOO a year, and is a very high berth, with a holiday of six months. Three years later, when Dr Jowett died, there was some talk of Mr Murray succeeding him as Kegius Professor of Greek at Oxford, but it came to The professor is an Australian, the son of Sir Torenco Murray, who was elected to the first Parliament of New South Wales, and became its Speaker in 1860.