The Taranaki Herald. PUBLISHED DAILY. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1891.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XL, Issue 9208, 9 October 1891, Page 2

The Taranaki Herald. PUBLISHED DAILY. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1891.

The mail steamer Maripoaa, with English mails, via 'Frisco, arrived at Auckland at 8.30 o'clock this (Friday) morning. Passengers for New Zealand : Messrs Chambers, O'Hara and wife, Williamson, wife and children, Bier, Donaldson, wife and child, Smith and wife, Nicholls, Purvis, Fleet, Sutherland and wife. Detective Grace, of Napier, has been in town for the last few daya in connection with the Supreme Court sittings. Mr G. Garry, who returned from Napier on Thursday morning, will leave the district with his wifo and family to-morrow (Saturday) morning. His Honor intimated this (Friday) morning that he would not commence the civil business in the Supreme Court till Monday. Amy Signal, the principal witness in the rape case heard before the Court this (Friday) morning, was accommodated with a seat on the Bench, in order that His Honor and tho jury could hear her evidence. When the Grand Jury brought in their last bill in the Supreme Court on Thursday, the foreman, Mr F. L. Webster, said that the jury wished to make two presentments to His Honor. The first was : " That this Grand Jury desires to call especial attention to what may be termed the criminal carelessness of the parents of the girl, Amy Signal, more especially that of the step-father." The second was, "That this Jury is of opinion that owing to the frequency of criminal offences against young children that the punishment awarded for such offences should be greatly increased." His Honor, in reply, stated that the sentence could hardly be increased unless they reverted to the old system of hanging for such offences, aB tpe law now went to penal servitude for life. He would, however, forward the presentments to the proper quarter. The hon secretary of the Rifles Band who is treasurer of the fund that has been raised to present Mr Garry with a souvenir on his leaving the district, states that he needs only a few more pounds to bring the sum up to the required total. The souvenir will take the form of a cornet, which is now on view at Napier. In the Supreme Court on Thursday morning, Mr R. J. Matthews was excused as a Grand Juror, on the plea of ill-health, MrT. Elliot informing His Honor that Mr Matthews was very ill. Mr J. Danshay was excused as a common juror, on the medical certificate of Dr. O'Carroll. Mr A. A. Ambridge asked His Honor's direction whether, being a witness, he should sit on the Grand Jury. His Honor informed Mr Ambridge that he could sit, but take no part in the deliberation on the case in which he was a witness. We would call attention to the AngloParisian system of dress-cutting and fitting taught by Miss Forbes. It has been open for the past 5 yeirs to the criticism of every one interested in the art of dresscuttiog, and is universally pronounced to be far superior to any other now being taught. The system is the outcome of a long experience in the art of cutting to measure, and does not correspond with any of the older systems, which have given such a great amount,of dissatisfaction The latest sporting information from ! Melbourne is that Bungebah has again hardened for the Caulfield Cup (run on Saturday, October 17), and is quoted at 5 to 2 against; and that Carbine is being backed in small sums for the Melbourne Cup at 100 to 7. At the inquest on the body of tho lad George Thomas, whose body was exhumed, the verdict was " death from exhaustion, consequent on hip disease, and accelerated by insufficient and improper food." The parents have been arrested.

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