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Otago Witness, Volume 26, Issue 1705, 26 July 1884, Page 16

PUBLIC KOTIOE OTAGO WITNESS. WILL SHORTLY BE COMMENCED A NEW AND ORIGINAL SERIAL, EHTITBEP A STORY OF LAKE WAKATIPU. Bjt "SAGITTA/' Author of " The Pate of a Pioneer," and other tales. AS its name indicates, "A Colonial Maiden " la ossentially a Colonial— and indeed we might say Otagan— Story, the chief scones being enacted in the Lakes district. It abounds in thrilling incidents, and is well calculated to sustain the interest of all clissoß of readers. The tale is well told, and I begins to interest the reader with tho first line, sus ! taining the interest to the end. The diction is often powerful and elegant, and we have no hesitation in asserting that the Btory has more than a more passing value. As a specimen of the author's descriptive writing, we might quote tbe following :— "After ito birth in the far mountains, here a wide river tumbles noisily in foaming cataracts, resembling in its white turbulence the fretful pas : ion of youth; Its temper spant, jfc flows in lazy, limpid cahnneSs, (oudling the drooping branches of the trees upon its bank?, liko wo^irig lover dangling maiden's locks: ! But on, ever on, flows river, uHtil it .fills the wide besom of the luke, hiving in its silent dopths secrets dark and dim, and eternal my*teHe3 ; while from its silvery suifaco, unbrokou by a npple > br a breath, smile back, as in a dream, the heaVens aud the hotie above, the hills and the precipice*, tte shores and the banks around, which, in the gay atlira of, many, coloured foiiajre, conceal the stirn and rocky routines marking its prison ;— and thus, even ns human life itself, the livers and the lakes arc stamped, impressed, and moulded by the scene* through which they flow — laughing scenes, and yet their fettters, against which, ■ storm-swoJlen and tempeefc-lashed, however they may ' jage and foam, their fury shall avail them not. Firm and implacable stand the rocks, like fate ; and on, and ever on, flow the csaseleas waters— on to the mystic and inviolable ocean, where the pure and the turgid, tho great and the lifctlo, the swift and the sluggard, all meet and end in one level, vast conversion witliouc distinction, one unfathomable, incomprehensible, majestic whole. " Diy had come, and the radiant light of morning danced joyously upon ths glasiere and snow-fields of tne mountains, sending a resplendent glow down into the valleys sA their feet. Tho mists of the expired nigh!; floated in torn and tattered fringes upon the mountain's side, the foliagd glowed wuh emerald brightness, and bill and dale vied in gladnes3 to welcome tljo return of day " • ' As iv epeoimon of healthy moral reasoning, might be quoted the following : - , . . . . " Yet there is in all this something Inssru'ablo and pint finding out ; and when I described tho doctrine of Free will as a religious arid theological delusion, I meant that moral responsibility of the individual was a great fact of paramount importance! The nccesoiliea of bocial life imposo it. Crime ia a social cancer threatening the very Existence of society, and its spread u.uat> be checked at any cost. Nor is society very exacting. t Thore is in business, in tho professions -in fact, h every phase of life— a wida margin for man ti sport and indulge bis moral weakness, and which margin constitutes the safety-valve ot his moral responsibility to society. There are the thousand a-id one ti-icka of trade; the baokruptcy laws and courts ; the breach of promise and divorce laws and courts ; the ecclesiastical laws and courts— these Utter a dreadful burlesque, Sir, and blasphemous mockery upon matter.* and persons ecclesiastical ; — aud a long tvid grim category of other laws and courts, all of which afford man ample scope for his , evil tendencies, and it is only when he goes beyond these laws that society puts in its veto, and with ' right ! " I have often thouathfc, Sir, thai if every convict* d criminal of any intelligence were compelled to write down a diagnosis of his. fall and crimes, and the circumstances which lcd^b to them, it might laad to a "Philosophy of Crime" being establiuhed, which must do au itcmer.sa amount of good, and shed a beneficial light upon a subject at present little studiel and less understood. IN either law nor justice ' tikes a proper iccognisan.ee of the circumstances which are the cause of three-fourths of all the crimes committed." INTHB SUPEEME COUJRT OF NEW ZEALAND, OTAGO AND SOUrHLAND, DiSTEIOT. No. 471. Lyons and Another v. Stenhouse. NOTICE IS BEBEBY GIVEN that in purpuancs nf a writ of sale dated the 9th day of JULY 1884, to ma directed and delivered, I will, unless the sairt writ shall be Boon«r fattened, on MONDAY, the 11th i day of August next, at 2 o'clock in the affer. noon, on the premises, sell all that the right, title., and int* rest of the above named Defendant; &h mortgagor in the pieces of land hereinafter desoubed ; that is to s*y, all that piece ' of land ia tho Provincial District of Osagn, containing by admeasurement 23 poles, more or leßr, situa'^d in the townahin of Musselburgh, being AUotmant 3 blcpk XII, on the < map of the B&id townbhip, being tho whole of the land comprised and described in O wtifiea^e of Title Rapi'iter Bjok. volume 55, folio 183, in the Lard Eagfstry Office, at Dunedin ; and also, all that; piece of land in the township of Muaselburgh pfireiaid, containing by admeasurement '2333 v^nt. more or less, being Allotment 5, Block XII, on the map of the Bdid township, being the whota of tha Land comprised and. described in Certificate of Title, volume 65, folio 140. The pieces of land above described are subject to a Memorandum of Mortgage to secura payment of tb.9 sum of £280 ; and interest at £8 per centum per annum, on the 27th day of April 1888. - I. NEWTON WATT, Sheriff of Otago, The sale la to be made at the suit of Lewis Lynns »nd Nathan Hart, tho execution creditors, and John Mquat, No. 67 Princea Btreet, Dunedin, is the solicitor for them. 19 jy HABBITgKINS. Tji E. BRADSHAW, * DIRECT EXPORTER (The New Zealand Eabbtakin Exchange), JETTY AND CRAWFORD STREETS, DUNEDIN, will givs from 16 i par lb upwards for good Winter Gny Rabbitskins in stay quantities, <md p»y railsga. rfiEOßftE BODLEY'S LEVIATHAN AJT PRIVATE HOTEL and. RESTAURANT, oppr.oUa site -for tha New Station, Dauediu. ♦ Grilled c^ops, and steak at alj hourr.