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Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 6774, 5 June 1885, Page 2

The following players will represent the Taranaki Football Club in their match with the United Club at 3 o'clock tomorrow: — Beane, Bennion, Corke, Cliff, Cornwall, Dalziell (2), Fookes, Guerin, Hempton (captain), Ilursthouse, Lye, McCallum, Palmer, and Tyrer. Emergencies: Humphries (back), Devonish, Surrey, Rich, and Pearson (forwards).

The Civil Service literary prize of £25 for the best essay on tbe Land Laws and their effects, social and economical, upon the condition of the people, has been awarded to Mr. Edward Gordon Allardyce, lately of the Telegraph Department.

A reply was read at Halifax Town Council meeting recently from the Lord Chancellor, to a memorial signed by a member of the Council and the Bench of Magistrates, asking that Alfred Ramsden, ex-Mayor and Editor of the Halifax Courier, be placed on tbe Commission of Peace. His Lordship refused to accede to the memorial, on tbe ground that an important duty of provincial newspapers most bo to criticise the proceedings of local Magistrates, and that if it were common for the editors of these papers to be magistrates themselves, there would be great dnngerof their attaining an undue share of influence in disputed matters. This decision is correct; and the law should be even more stringent, for no editor of a paper should be qualified for a seat in Parliament. In fact no editor of a newspaper with any self-respect for himself would offer himself for election.

It's a pretty difficult thing for a highschool girl to think of something to say when she has to write a composition, but as soon as she gets out of school, and while on the way home, she can say a whole newspaper full without thinking.

" Fine morning, your Worship," affably remarked tbe man who bad been arrested the night before for being drunk and disorderly. " Yes, indeed," responded the justice, " quite a fine morning — in fact, a 10s. fine morning I"

Why it was discontinued — " So Brown hnn had his leg amputated ?" " Yes, poor fellow 1 It was taken off last week." "And how does he stand it — does he suffer much pain?" "I believe not." "That'B strange. They probably keep him under the influence of drugs, don't they?" "I tbink they stopped that treatment last Wednesday." " Why did they stop on that partioalnr day ?" " That's the day he died !"