MISCELLANEOUS

Timaru Herald, Volume LII, Issue 5169, 16 June 1891, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS

Hebrew is again becoming a living languapo m Paloslino. Tho Uioua;indo of Jowb who '? aro going thoro from difforont countries, boing ' unablo to oommunioiito with onch othor m ~ thoir ordinary languages, rosoi't to tho know- > lodgo whioh tboy hnvo of Hebrow m Ihoir roligious services for a ir.oaiiß of comtnuuijl oalion, n' In Profoi'sor Mnhaffy'B latOßb work, "Tho i- Grooks Under Homan Bway," it ia rather 1 18 curious to find that tomo 2000 yoara ago tho 18 rabbit poet was tbo bano of tho ngricultuvnl 10 and pastoral industry, aa it ib now m Auatralia r- and m sorao parts of Kow Zealand. Accordt- ing to Strabo, it infcßtod all thn nouth-wett of o, Burope as for as Mionillta, including Corsica m an 1 tho Balearic Islands. Tho Spaniards, it )0 eeoms, had dovised various roniodioa for Iho a- ovil, including tho domoatiaalion of tho n- ".African woaael" (tho mongooeoP). Mr ns Mnliaffoy romarka that thoro Bcema to bo no o, tnoalion of thcao rabbifca .m later autborilioa, ■c. from whioh ho infora that they woro disnp:io poaring ovon m Slrabo's time. Ho thinka sh that eirnilarly m Australia tho day will eomo Lh when natural cnuaos will nooompliah what 0, human ingomiily is unatilo to offoct. In tho of meautimo, while tho rabbit eats tho prnas, tho 0, Bhcop ia starving.

5 In the course of a trial at Brisbane m if which the question of fcho prisoner's sanity 3, was raised, Mr Justice Bundoy said that with }, the advancement of the age the time was not i- far distant when a tribunal of specially ir skilled men would be formed to decide the 6 sasity or otherwise of oriminals, and that on c such criminals being found to be insane, they !• would be kept apart from their fellows, not as a criminals, but as a olass not allowed to marry it or propopate, '? The hearing of the aotion by Joanna Bali" lantyno against the Mutual Insurance Com- '• pany of Now York was concluded at b Melbourne on the 3rd instant. Plaintiff 9 claimed on a certificate of insurance granted B by the defendant company to David Ballan- '» tyne, late huaband of the plaintiff,-for €2600. f The defence was that Ballantyne m his appliB cation for a policy gave a guarantee that be ■f would not dio by his own hand within two " venn from date, and that within one month h from date he shot himself, and^ further, that 8 he had made misrepresentations m filling up c the application form. In answer to questions 8 submitted by Mr Justice A'Beckett, the jury h found that Ballantyne shot himsslf while m * such an intane state of mind that he did not f know the consequenoeß of the aot, and that Mr Booth, the managor of the defendant 6 company, know at the time the ciroumstances 0 under which Ballantyne's life had been " refused by another company, and also that * Booth did not read over to Ballantyne the * questions contained m the application form. F Leave was reserved to either side to move for 3 judgment. a