LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 927, 17 October 1879, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

There were a few and very unimportant cases at the R.M. Court this morning, heard before Messrs. Graham and Tucker, J.P.s. Judgment was given for plaintiff m the following cases : — Teat v. Hamlin, for goods supplied; Borough Council v. Cullen,' for cost of summons ; Griffen v. A. McLeod, for the sum of £1, on a judgment summons, the amonnt to be paid by 11 o'clock on Monday. Brassey v. U'Ren, being beyond the jurisdiction of the justices was adjourned to the 31st inst. " Charlie " Wilkie, the well-known mailman, met with a shocking accident this morning. From what we can learn he was helping to remove a portion of the building comprised m the Kerry Hotel, when he received an injury to his skull which will probably prove fatal. Medical assistance was promptly sent for, and soon after Dr. Jackson was on his way at full galop togive his best professional aid. Lovers of flowers should remember that one blossom allowed to mature or go to seed injures the plant more than a dozen buds. Cut off all your flowers before they begin to fade. Adorn your rooms with them ; put them on your table ; send bouquets to your friends who have no flowers, or exchange favors with those who have. All roses, after they have ceased to bloom, should be cut back, that the strength of the root may go to form new roots for next year. My pretty dears, — the future wives of New Zealand — you are no more fit for matrimony than a pullet is to look after a family of 14 chickens. The truth is, my dear girls, you want, generally speaking, more liberty and less fashionable restraints, more kitchen and less parlour, more leg exercise and less sofa, more making puddings, and less piano, more frankness and less mock-modesty, more breakfast and less bustle. I like the buxom bright-eyed, rosy-cheeked, full-breasted, bouncing lass, who can darn a stocking, make her own frocks, mend trousers, command a regiment of pots and kettles, milk a cow, feed the pigs, chop wood, shoot a wild duck as well as the Duchess of Marlborough or the Queen of Spain and be a lady withal m the drawing room. But as for your pining, moping, screw'd-up, wasp-waisted, puttyfaced, music-murdering, novel-devouring, daughters of fashion and idleness, with your consumption soled shoes, silk stockings, and calico shifts, you won't do for the future wives and mothers of New Zealand. Mrs. Hatch has for many years been a conspicuous spiritual medium m Boston. Her speciality is the production of flowers from spirit sources. She gave a seance a few evenings ago, at a private residence. The lights were extinguished, as usual, and the persons m the circle were enjoined to hold fast to each other's hands. Flowers were soon dropped here and there, and Mrs. Hatch began to explain how they had been brought from distant places by spirit hands. All the gas burners m the room had been connected with an electric lighting apparatus, and suddenly the. room was illuminated. The medium completely exposed. In her^an was a pile of flowers, aud she was caught m the act of tossing them into the air. A London paper says: "It is related that during a call made on the Sultan by Mrs. Layard, wife of the British Minister, the Sultan invited her to ride with him. Assent was given, and m a few moments a light basket carriage, drawn by two dashing bays stopped m front of the palace. The Sultan gave Lady Layard his arm, opened her parasol himself, and assisted her down the steps, shading her the while. Not only this, but during the entire course of a half-hour's ride through the palace grounds, notwithstanding her remonstrances and assertions that his Majesty would fatigue himself, he stoutly held the parasol over her head while she handled the ribbons— an aot of courtesy to a woman, and a Christian at that, unprecedented m the annals of the Ottoman Empire." The Emperor William is described as doing a very kindly thing during his stay at Ems. A large party of schoolboys headed by their master arrived at Ems to spend a holiday. After exploring the town and driuking the waters, they came trooping along the covered colonnade of the Restaurant Gardens. The Emperor, walking quietly along m the opposite direction, accosted the foremost boys, saying "What brought you here, my lads ?" '• We came to spend a holiday and to see the Emperor," promptly replied their spokesman. "To see the Kmperor ? Then have a good look at him !" rejoined the monarch, turning round back and front. "I am the Emperor !" And forthwith he took the delighted boys to a bookstall close by, and presented each of them with a photograph of himself. | _______ ______^_