WAITARA POLICE COURT.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 6984, 6 February 1886, Page 2

WAITARA POLICE COURT.

Febuuart s.—Before C. E. Rawson, Esq., R.M. Working at a Tbadb or Calling on SUNDAY.—The Manager of the Freezing Works at Waitara was charged with slaughtering cattle on a Sunday, in view o£ a public place. 'After Borne lengthy argument, Hid Worship decided that if the Company made the "slaughtering more p.rivate,, tho killing of cattle on Sunday b|eing a necessity, the case would bo dismissed.—This having been acceded to, tho caae was dismissed accordingly.

According to a cabinot decree of 1817, master-artisans, in Prussia who, gratuitously teach a trade to a deaf-mute boy, and thereby enable him to become self? supporting', are entitled to a. Stute premium of £7 —an award that was recently made to a saddler of Keuigsberg. ' Tho historic park of Hamilton Palace, Scotland, will soon be broken up for acoallield. Tho gardens are leased to a nurEery man, and the place will probably soon bo dismantled. Tho Duchess of Hamilton lately paid the place what was probably a farewell visit of two days. Cambridge is planning a memorial of Kingsley. London is to have a monster weathervane illuminated by electricity. Italians are ilocking to tho Argentine Republic at the rate oE 100,000 a year. This year's wheat crop in France is 6,000,000 bushels above the average. Japan imports nearly "fifty millions in cotton goods, and 97 per cent, of it is from England. _. . , .Japan boasts" a dwarf who is welj educated, is $6 years old, and standß 17 inches in height. Mrs. Yseult Dudloy, who triod lq kill O'Donovan Rosso, hqs made several attempts to commit suicido in tho Middle town Asylum. Tho colossal Barthold Liberty statue pießentcd by tho Fro'nch to the United ' States' is to be matched by a counter memorial offered by the Americans. It is proposed to present France with a monster bronze statue of Washington, occupying an .elaborate pedestal carved with basreliefs of the tally Franco-American missinuririfs, an I G utr.ilb Lee uud Utvtnt. Tuis stuiua vnuulil bu pluced iv front of, the Fans i'uuthcou.