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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XVI, Issue 26, 19 October 1888, Page 7

Justice Day, one of the three commissioner! selected to compose the Government's Coart of Inqniry into the Times forgeries, ii an Kngliih Catholic Tory. His fitness for the Bench, acd especially for the conduct of such a case as th's, may be judged from his remark daring a recent trial of three Irishmen for assault at Liverpool : " Bach a dastardly, cowardly, and brntal crime could not hare happened in England, except among tre Irish." Tn* other members are Sir James Hannan, a " moderate Liberal, " and Justice Smith, a Tory. Gladstonians are not rer resented on the Commission, of coune. Henry M. Vimont, of Millersburg. Ky. , was sent to an insane asylum the other day. He smoked one hundred cigarettes per day. Reports of terrible ravages caused by grasshoppers in the surrounding districts are daily reaching Ottawa, Ontario. A calculation shows on each iquare mile upward of one hundred millions.