MISCELLANEOUS.

Timaru Herald, Volume LVIII, Issue 1774, 7 June 1895, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

We ( Westmimte¥-Qmtitte)<lQ not pledge ourselves to, the truth of this story, but it is, goad enough to be true. An authoress, who is wittier than the generality of her sex (or for that matter, of the other), was asked by a writer of the opposite sex who is not remarkable for the civility of his style, "Wouldn't you like to be a man ?' r To. this the lady readily replied " Wouldn't you?" When Arthur Buck, aged only 27, was brought up at the Criminal Cout, Melbourne, and charged with the coldblooded murder of an unfortunate woman named Kate Norton because she refused to leave the man she was living with and return to Buck, he pleaded " Gnilty," AJ[r Justice Holroyd (after a pause); "Bo you know what you have ph?sd,ed?" Prisoner: "Yes sir." Do you. < know the consequences, oi the plea ?" '* I do, sir." Iu Dq you, desire to persevere in that plea f" " Yes, sir." Mr Justice Holroyd; "X hope you have not pleaded I guilty under any false hope that that will alter in any way the sentence which the law would require me to pass on iyouP" "No, sir." Buck was then remanded for sentence. " An amusing thing occurred while I was at Yokohama," says a recently returned traveller. "An official notice of the Government had been published in the Japanese newspaper saying that all Chinese who desired to depart must do so by a certain date or else remain until the war was over. Thereupon Ah Shing, a big clothing dealer, called all the Chinese together, and they all agreed <IQ> go. They got their goods to, V«^ <&>ek. and finally aboard stea,nw. with themselves, and the stean^^j;. pjillecl out. At the last m^u^ $ was found that the wealfl\jjj m.ereh'a.nt h.a,d h,e}d( bis goods 9ss slipped back \he. city, He at ! ojice, resumed' tnjapiess, having got rid Of all pppps^on merchant^ and is now rolling in riches because- of the great business, hfi j$ d.oU*g.."