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Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 7338, 4 April 1887, Page 2

Some neat sparring was witnessed in the Resident Magistrate's Court on Saturday botween two members of the legal profession. When the case was ending,- one o£ the gentlemen could so ill-conceul bia chagrin at finding Bis Worship's lino of thought waa not parallel with his own, that hi<3 bearing assumed a character which evoked from his learned friend, Mr. Samuel, the retnaik that a solicitor's place was rather to plead than to dictate. ~ The friends of Mr. and Mrs. Enever will be pleased to hear that they are again returning to New Zealand, and are likely to settle in Auckland. Mr. Enever, writing to a friend here by tho last mail, says— " London, as far as I cau gather, is in a far worse state than when I left it six years ago. Everywhere people seem to be losing money, stocks o£ ail kinds are gradually fulling, without doubt, and no one seems to have money to spoud or enterprise to buy anything ; yet here, as in New Zealand, people will go to entertainments, if it is with their last farthing. Bills, &c, can wait, they say. Land is going actually out of cultivation, uad manufactories cannot be kept going. The farmers up north are in a dreadful state, I have been told by those who do business with them. The stocks are enormous now in London. Old firms a fow yeais ago, whose credit was undoubted, have had a hard struggle to keep their heads above wuter ; some have already failed. I am afraid I have depicted a very sad picture, but nevertheles it is true, and you will find any new chum you come across will give you as bad au account, for all that i have said there are stilt bouqo making money. The theatres, music halls, concerts, &c , are going on every night. It would puzzle you as to where the money comes from. The Alhauabra has just paid their shareholders the enormous dividend of 45 per cent." Mr. James Hirst, an old resident in Taranaki, who for many years, was at Patea but latterly at Midhirst, died on Friday morning, after a loog and painful illness, tie was buriod ou Saturday, the whole o£ that settlomenfc turning out to attend the funeral. The Secretary of the Hospital Board ; desires to acknowledge with thanks receipt of fruit and oakesfrom Mrs. £lompton for hospital patients, Tho attention of the public is directed to Mrs. Hood's advertisement, in whiuh it will bo seen that ehe is oifering her large stock oil Summer and Autumn Drapery at an enormous dieoouut for caoh. The sale, wfjl pun.tJn.Uo &> r tv/entyrpno daya^'AdV^