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Waipawa Mail, Volume I, Issue 15, 2 November 1878, Page 3

Yankee Gkab. —A charge against the licensee of the Farmer’s Anns, Balclutha, for permitting gambling in his house ami heard l»efore the local 11. M., was dismissed. because defendant was not cognisant of the proceeding. The evidence disclosed that the gambling was by some people having a game of “ Yankee Grab ” or A ** shilling in and the winner shout,” at the close of a meeting that had been held in the hotel. Sir George Grey. —The New Zealend Times says :Mr Rees, in his address to his constituents in Auckland, has, in a measure, prepared us for another and more extended tour on the part of the Premier. The next series of peripatetic orations is to take place in Australia. The working men's rights and manhood suffrage talk is about played out in New Zealand, and Sir George must now seek “ fresher fields and pastures new” wherein to air hi* eloquence. The role to be undertaken iA quite a new one, as this time he Bets fo* to-vith the laudable object of promoting Umnimity among the colonies. Bound Over. —Things arc coming to a pretty p*sß (sayß the New Zealander) when children have to be hound over to keep the peace towards each other. Yet an instance of this kind has just been brought before the notice of the public through he Dunedin City Police Court, in which a boy of ten years, Daniel Wadsworth b; name, was bound over in £5 to keep tlu peace towards Mary McAulay, for six ijonths, for having assaulted her. A suggestion to kiss and make friends was rented with scorn by the juvenile parties. *nd so the law had to take it* course.