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New Zealand Tablet, Volume VII, Issue 411, 25 February 1881, Page 11

The Ladies' Land League, organised in New York only a few weeks ago by Miss Fanny Parnell, has already been the means of raising over 1000 dols. Good for the ladies. At one of the sessional divisions of Dorsetshire, a certain wellknown tradesman was last week summoned for •' killing and taking- " a pheasant, He was defended by the George Lewis of the neighbourhood, and acquitted, the maijistiate remarking that it was disgraceful to subject a respectable man to such a prosecution. So delighted was the defendant at the result, that he insisted on his advocate dining with him. In due course a pheasant was put on the table, and it was pronounced to bo a most excellent bird. " Yes," said the host, " this is the bird which it has been clearly proved tw day I did not kill or take." — London Truth.