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Wanganui Herald, Volume XX, Issue 6085, 30 November 1886, Page 2

The Timaru Herald hints at a libel case against tho South Cantorbuiy Tiiies by Mr Ivess, on whom it has been making comments.

The time made last night by the winning crew in the final heat for tho Waoginui Rowing Club trophies was the boat over made in tho Cimolias on this, liver, tho lecord being lowered. Members of fio club will regret to hear that one of tho Fitzherbert trophies was last night destroyed at Mr Sim's fiio.

At the B.M, Court this morning the following cases woic heard ; — E, B ltlon v. Robert Henry, claim £18 3s on a judgment £ummoii3. Ko appearance of the defendant, or cause of absence 'hown ; it; wni, therefore, ordered that tho amount bf> p'lid forthwith, in default 14 days' imprisonment G. C Eees v, B. T. Blake, claim £37 03. Adjoin ued for 14 days. 0. K. Campbell v. W, C-p'laii'l, claim £14. Jutlgnient for plaintiff, with costs 247. T, Higgle v. Henry Jncobg, claim £33 5g on a judgment summons. No oidor made Tl.e original order was varied to one < f £5 a month.

The Diuiediu police appear to £;iyo gaol birds very l'ttlo peace. One iho h.idjtiqt served a lengthened term, and had in his day or two of liberty been doing a ocnvict'a pnrt in "Ilia Natural Lifo," wis run in on a charge of vagrancy, The prisoner stated what ho had )>een doins;, but the iJ.M. " did not consider liis deffiic a v.ilid one, and fentenced him to thiee mouths imprisonmenti" Unless the evidence was stronger than is s'iowu by fho "Star leporfc, tho sentence was haidly fair, e.Vii though Gi'lisni), the man convicted, \\ is m old gaol biid,

In oongialnlating the Evening Prow on its recent enlargement, w Inch unkes it, now tho hrgest evening paper iv the colony, we may copy some somo figures qivtn by the Marlborough Kxpicss, reflecting on the 3izes ot and quantity of matter contained in Eomo of the leading papers, Tho Press has 40 columns and 1010 inches ot punted mattar, tho Post 36 columns with nuuly as much icadiog mitter, Nat icr Telegraph 36 columns and 916 m, Auol.land i-lar 88 columns and 915 m, Duncdln Star 32 columns and B'JOin. In tho moriin« paperß the N.Z, Herald and Lyttelton 'limes lead with 56 columns (8 piges) ;.nd 1232 m, while the Olago Daily Ti'iie3 has 3G columns and 938 in. Xhe Express after stating that each of thoEo pnpeis issues supplements, or weekly editions, goes on to say ;— U'e question very much if such figmes can bo beaten in any other psrt of the world, and iL is not the least eatisfpelory clement in the case that several of the i vunng newspapers enlarged their columns in the middle of what is pnpul,uly known in N"W Zoilaml as the " ppnod of dpproS' sion." Whoever and and whatever die may bo wanting jn their duty to tho publio, or deficient in oommenabio eatopuse, tho newspapers certainly aie not so:

At Mai ton Arthur Booth, a ttiolliug player, was committed for trial for stealing a dress suit belonging to a surveyor from Gibbon's Whito Hart Hotel last July. Prisoner had tho clothes in his possession when arroßttd by Constable Coyle. Tho assault caso against Mv George Fisher, M.H.R, was dismissed as beiiy of too trivial a nature and ono whioh ought not to have been brought Into Court, The assault consiited in Mr Fisher preventing Mr E. 11. Goldsmith from entering a room in tho Empire Holsl, whore Mr Fisher wa3 addre-siug a pnvato mcetiug. of shareholders iv a mining company.

Tho Lyttslton Times calls attention to a native cuckoo which has recently been noticed in the neighborhood of Timaru Its peculiar note snd eccentric mnvome.nts led to its being watched, and it wa'i found thai i v vii viiitiir; Iho cp->i rows' nest 3, and in 1 'niv ihem ot, or rather destroying thin" c. I' tins i a peculiarity of the cucl oo it i. a In'i wmt.li rultivating, CH|'c ci"i'\ if ii uiiihl I o i .ildc d to confine its rayM t ci lo tho cus of g.ain-devouring biids. These buds are, however, now comparatively rate, except in tho timbered back country. The Southland Times of a recent date says :— "A very pleasing coromony took place yesterday afternoon in tho Municipal Chambois, when the Mayor (Mr J. L. McDonald) presented Miss Flora MoLeod, who distinguished herself by her bravory at tho lato fatal firo in Liddel Street, with a purse of sovoieigns and tho following testimonial, signed by the Mayor and a numoer of cit.zem:—"To Fiora MoLeod, aged 16 years,

in recognition of her biavo conduct in rescing tlnee children from the fire in Jjiddel Street, Invercargill, on Wednesday evenint', tho Ist of September, 1886." During tho firo in the Avenue last night Mr Ward Butler lent very material assistance in taking precautionary measures to save the B'vnk of New Zealand, organising avd directing a small but active stiff of workois, whom a short lime had everything in order to withstand the firo m the adjoining building bhoiild it break through and menace the bank building. We regi et

fir Froderiok Roberta told the other day at Simla the story of a Jcod which, had it occurred iv Roman h.itory, would have made tho hero of it immoita!, and yet in Kughshetory it has Ira no place, and the t ocr of it ho 8 loceivcd neither reward nor fame. His name possibly has hron fnriptteii—" unhonoured and unjung." But hue is tho story of tho deed, as told by the present Commander in-chief of Indi.i, on cye-witiiesa ot the h cone : — "At tho relief of Lueknow, when a heavy firo from tho loop holed walls was making teiriblo havoc in tho lanlia of tha storming p'uty of the S'kandorbagli, a young Sikh, of the 4th Punjab Infantry, p\E ß od UU aim •hrough the wicket of the guto and endeavouiod to dmw back tho bolt with which ljw as barred. A^wordcutfronnvithinnearly bovued hia hand from tho wri3t: nothing daunted, he withdrew the ii jurod arm and tluu3t in tho other ono. This Blnred ths fate of the first, but not before tho bolt had been drawn, and the gallant Sikh had tho satisfaction of acting his comwdes stream 'hrough the gateway, whioh by lm determined bravery had bom opened for them." Theio was uo difficulty (?ays Broad Arrow) in defining tho boundary line botweon oouiago an.l heioism hero, but uo Victori* CiO3B was granted ; the mles of the Order did not recognise an exceptional case v ; ,i native soldier Tho story, howovor, will now find a plnoa iv England's mihtnty Instorv amongst o'.hcr bught deeds that the v.oild ' Will nut willingly let die." Easily PRWKN.-It is easily proven that njalßiinl fevers, coii&tipation, toipidity of Uie liver and Itidneys, geneial debility nen ouone3S, sud neuralgic ailments yield icddily to this great clisoasc-onnquoror, Amcncm Co '« Uop Bittora, It repairs the lavaijes of disease by ooijvoitinf the food into neh blood, and it gives new life i and vigour to tho aged and infirm always, See. Mjseiub bnkss. — Tho most wonderful and marvellous success in case? where persons aio sick or pining away from a condition of miserablenesa that no one knows what ails them (profitablo patients for doctors), is obtained by tho iwo of Hop Bitters. They begin to cure from tho first dooe, and ltocp it up until perfect health and strength is lcitoriri. Refuse unless American Co 'a make, Notice.