A CURIOUS CASE OF SLANDER.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VII, Issue 1070, 13 April 1880, Page 2

A CURIOUS CASE OF SLANDER.

A curious ca3e is reported by the Argus to have been heard at the Echuoa Police Court recently, in which Mrs. Venetia Woods, licensee of the Council Club Hotel, summoned Andrew Kane for using insulting language calculated to provoke a breach of the peace. Mrs. Woods has been a resident at Echuca for five years, cluing which time it has constantly been rumoured that she was indentical with Mrs. Kinder, who ia the year 1866, with an accomplice named Bertrand, murdered her husband at North Shore, near Sydney, New South Wales. These rumours have had a great effect on Mrs. Wood's business, which has f fallen off in consequence. She has been shunned by residents, and was always the object offmuch curiosity if she walked abroad. No allegations, were ever made against her that she was Mrs. Kinder, and through a Bupposed likeness she has been leading a most painful existence. Although these rumours often reached her ears, she could never trace them to their author. In the present instance Kane said to her face that he had paid Is. to see her portrait in New Zealand. Mra. Woods clearly demonstrated that she was not Mrs. Kinder, and respectable witnesses proved that she was a respectable resident' at Melbourne at the time of the Sydney murder. The Police magistrate also, stated that he knew Mrs. Woods was not Mrs. Kinder, and denounced Kane's conduct as cowardly and brutal. He fined him £5, with heavy costs. Kane not paying the fine, he was sent to goal for two months. Mistress: "Mary, these eggs are very small again.'' Mary : " Yes, ma'titn — shure I think I must tell tte dairy woman she muat let the hens sit on them longer." i " The Lord loveth a cheerful giver ' : but there's no use chucking a copper^ penny into the contribution box loudenough to make the folks on the back seat think the communion service has tumbled off the altar.

Jones can't see why it should be telegraphed all the way from England when a k horse takes a dose of Jsalts. Jones has been reading of some racer taking the Epsom Cup, probably. The reason they don't hang murderers tin Texas is that they consider it a worse punishment to make them live in. that State. Cruel Texas.