LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VII, Issue 1053, 26 June 1880, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

We have received another communication of the " Brutus ami Cassiua " order ; but although, as the writer assures us it contains nothing libellous, it is neverthless calculated to wound the feelings of one of the persons introduced. Now, the conductor of a journal, more especially in a small community, is oftentimes aufficently paiued in the strict performance of his duties, at having to publish naked facts, even when not commenting on them. We do not print the " Coopertius and Re tins " dialogue sent us because it would give unnecessary pain without accomplishing any purpose. The day of big nUggets is not over. On May 4 two miners, named Vincome and Breton, working at Yandoit, New South Wales, unearthed a nugget weighing 300 ounces, and some smaller ones, they getting for the lot the Juice little sum of £1,370 ; and the following week they obtained a fifty ounce one, which brought them in nearly £200. Indiscreet marriages) aays the Post, have always been and always will be celebrated, and there ate cases innumerable on record where the twain that thus become one flesh have had a difficulty in gathering together enough capital to pay the marriage fees, and have left the question of further subsistence out of the question altogether, relying on the proverbial kisses without the least regard to the bread and | cheese associated. But one of the queerest of queer marriages took place a short time since in Wellington. An intending bridegroom waited on the Registrar, intimated his desire to be united to the fair object of his affections, and proceeded to give the necessary preliminary particulars. One of the first questions was the name of the bride elect, but the suitor could not give either her Christian or surname, her age, or any particulars whatever, and actually had to take a cab and make these necessary inquiries before the Registrar could prooeed to fill up the certificate. The difficulty settled, the bridegroom again set out for the bride, the pair appeared, and the nuptial knot was successfully tied. The attention of our Borough street overseer might, at the present time, be Very advantageously directed to our street crossings, which appear to act admirably as a dam for the sludge of the streets. If we might be allowed to suggest an improvement, we should move that a man be at once detailed to give five minutes to each cro3sin<r, and let off into the side-drains the pool which has accumulated above it. Then perhaps we should be able to get across the street without wading through six inches of worse than pea-soup as we must do now. Beside the accumulation of sludge above eaoh crossing is calculated to produce a hole in the street by reason of frequent passing of carts through the the same, and ao destroy a part of the street. If private persons lay down crossing, surely the least the Borough can do is to see they are attended to in wet weather. Yesterday, on reading over the Borough Council bye-laws, we find that Mr. William Adair was placed in a much greater fix at tho time hia cel!ar*was flooded than we supposed. He had to answer a charge for opening up tho road to free his cellar from water. Had he not opened up the road, we find that he would have been informed against for allowing wafcor to remain In his cellar. Now, what ought he to have done ? This morning at the R. M. 's Court, two youths named respectively G. Searle and C. Lewis, were charged with cruelty to a horse, by tying a oan to the end of ft rope attached to said horse, by whioh the animal became alarmed, and so in fright, killed itself. The whole affair was more in the spirit of mischief than cruelty. Young Lewis was discharged, there being no case agairtelj him ; and Searle was sentenced td pay a fine of 40s, or seven day's imprissfcrnent.