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Waikato Times, Volume I, Issue 33, 16 July 1872, Page 2

Mr. Mellor, in the Housa of Commons, asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether the Government intended to prosecute the man called Tichborne at the public expense. The Chancellor replied that it wa& the intention of the Government to prosecute him for perjury, although he is committed for forgery. In reply to another question by a member, the right honorable gentleman explained that the reason* for the prosecution were, in brief, that the offences with- which he was charged were of a high degree of moral turpitude, as, if guilty, he would have attempted by gigantic fraud and perjury to deprive an infant of his inheritance and a most honorable and respectable lady of her fair fame. "We find the following amongst the reported proceedings of the South Australian Legislative Assembly:—The Treasurer, in- reply to the Hon. J. Hart, said he would read a copy of a telegram that he had received within the last few minutes. He had had no time to verify the telegram; but he had no reason to doubt its genuineness. It was a telegram from Captain Audley Coote to the Melbourne " Argus," and was as follows:— " I have arranged with two large Telegraph Companies in England, combined with an associated body of the leading financial ! gentlemen in London, who are prepared i to make and lay another submarine telegraph | cable, to connect the Eastern colonies"of Aub- ! tralia with England 1 . Aft eoncessioDS were granted, and contract signed between each party before I left London j also for the New Zealand cable." Mr. Edward Mitchell, the celebrated sculptor, hag committed suicide by stabbing himself with a sharp instrument used in his profession. The coroner's jury .returned a verdict to the effect that he committed th© i deed whilst suffering from temporary insanitj*

A correspondent of the " Australasian" writes :—Talking of wool there is one point which I have not seen noticed, and which j think givos promise of high prices being maintained for several future seasons. Wool got into increased consumption through low prices, inducing its introduction into fabrics in which it had not been employed before. This gave the market its first fillip. Then daring tho late war the Germans and the French ate the sheep they used to shear —and wool yields differ from cotton crops in this respect that it requires several years to increase the clip by multiplying of the flocks. People who know say that had Hugh Glass lived, and had his station mortgages not been foreclosed ho would have been a rich man now. The modfc careless observer must notice that there is an inereaso in the number of carriages in Collinß-street, and I think the " rise in greasy" is not without its influence upon the improving value of upstanding carriage pairs. "Tub Best Way for tiir Try all of a New Plough."—"And, secondly,having the plough and all its accutrements completed, then to the tryall of it, and therein be sure to make the first trya'l of your plough upon land workable and regular lands, not upon lands above measure hard, rooty, rushy, twitchery, or any way unfeacible, because upon such lands a true demonstration of the goodnesH and truth of the plough cannot be discovered, nor any can be observed. Because such lands will more easilly wrench, writ or put a new plough out of its work before it he wrought into its work ; a rough new plough being somewhat like an unbroken horse which may easily be spoyled in the hand of a violent and madcap rider, but if the horse be kindly used and taken off his untamedness by degrees, by ease, kindness, and patience, he is made a horso for ever. So after that, in ordinary land, your patient, discreet ploughman having well scoured your plough, brought it to a true furrow, both for bredth and depth, and set your irons so it will go itself with the very bearing of the hand to keep it steady, then you may afterwards be bold to put it to any service on any land whatsoever the strength of it will abide, and it may be serviceable for many years." And to the ploughman. " I shall dismiss my ploughman with this exhortment —be as willing to learn as thou hast need, and abandon those poor silly shifts men make to preserve themselves ignorant and unserviceable, as they have been ploughmen all their days and are not now to learn; and men may as well be too precise, and better ploughs cannot be made 'than their country atlords, and could better have been devised they would long Since; with hundreds more so childish as are not worth an answer ; but these exceedingly stifle and choak invention." —" Captain Walter Blyth, quoted by Mr. J. E. liansome." Permission has been given to introduce a Bill into the British Parliament practically to teach clergymen of the Church of England their profession as ministers. In other words it is a Bill to authorise the preaching of sermons by laymen in Church of England pulpits, such sermons to be ot a practical character, dwelling on moral duties, and the mode of applying Christianity to the details of everv-day life.