MISCELLANEOUS.

Timaru Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 4560, 8 June 1889, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

The first elmpler m a novel has the followj ing :— " And bo tlic fair girl continued to fit on tho #und, gazing upon the briny deep, on whoso heaving bosom the tall ships wont merrily by freighted — nil ! who can tell with how much of joy <md sorrow, and pino lumber and emigrant, hopes and salt fish." Mr Justice. Hawkins, ono of the Engli«h chief justices, during a recent assize, played rap-jneknt with tho Kent magistrates bciMuse. of their Borcrity m tho matter of hail. Tho .Tudgo says no man ought, unlm m exceptional casts, to bo kept m pri«on even ono bnur until lie. lias been found guilty of nn offence, and that m all cuecs bail should bo as light us poesiblo nitd thp poorer tho man tho e.ieici' tho terms should ho. Kvcn if tho mm nboconds ho ie punished, ond tho very fact. Mint there ii a warrant out oguin»t him ia m ilsi'lF almost a guarantee for Jlis eood belmyior. For a poor man, because ho ciinnot find biil, t'i bo kept m prison a 1 >ng limn for an affmn;.'! tlio jury ultimately find ho lins nol. committod, ii an outrngo and a snan'lal to our law*. A rii:li man can of eourso find bail where n, poor man cannot. — Magistrates nh'juld out this note out a"d pneto it m their hats.