eight years’ imprisonment, His Honor said that while it was impossible to exonerate from blame the directors and share holders of the company of which the prisoner had been manager, in entrusting him with unlimited control of the affairs of the company, that was no palliation of his' offence, which he (the Judge) could characterise as nothing less than systematic plunder. Thomas Emlay pleaded guilty 'to larceny from a dwelling, and got twelve ■months’ imprisonment. Alex. Nicholson, for larceny, got six months. ' Nominations for 41 immigrants have jbeen sent by the outgoing mail. V) No bills were found against Thomas Watson for rape, and Mitchell'and Lees Ifbr horse-stealing ; Craig, manslaughter, las. engineer of the city tramways. The lentence of Betman, for stabbing, was ■welve mouths, and that of Coughlin, for Burglary, was two years, while Fell, for

rgery, got twelve months. Judge Wil-. Lins decided that he cannot try Milton, larged with embezzlement, as he is a life libber'of the 'Atheimun, so the case K be heard in Christchurch.

BRITISH & FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE

AST NICrHT’S Ci'SuE'HAMS.

( Reuter''s 7 elegrants.) London, Jan. 2. ||Be Garonne sailed from Plymouth iron L 22 per ton. ■B Parnell lias gone to New York. St. Peteksbueg, Jan.l., review of the Russian troop 3 here to-day, followed by a banquet. The Czar and Czare- present at both. Their re- B; were of a cordial character, and it : -Bove;l that their quarrel has been ad- The basis of any understanding |HB:inay have been arrived at between BPMajesty and the Czars witch however, s not.yet publicly known. Constantinople, Jan. 3.

The difficulties between England and Turkey are compromised, and resumption of relations are probable to-day. Paris, Jan. 3.

At an interview between Freycinet, the President of the Council of Ministers, kind Hohenlohe, the German Ambassador, friendly assurances were exchanged.

AUSTRALIAN

(Reuter 's.) Melbourne, Jan. 3. he cricket match between the Aris en Combined Eleven and Fifteen Tie- Ins was concluded to-day, and resulted ■victory for the Fifteen by 82 runs. ■Fifteen in their second innings scored Band the Eleven 80.

Jan. 4. i. Darrell, the 1 actress, died on [lay.

INTERPROVINCIAL.

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AtroKL4.Ni), Jan. 3. Robinson left this morning in a HMHHMMWaikato, accom- Whitaker and and R. Fergus hto n he .was ■MHHHFergusson ia his Beyond the no demonstia-

Sutton sur d appeared in He Customs and side revolvers IgiMised under the 'Svicleflce, - the of LIOO to of Customs, witli Mrpect'jr Pardy said arrival, and had Whence. The police H the charge under w Worship said that wered in it, the result ree years’ penal servi-

Isy, tile missing settlor Ibeen found. The boat Be river with a part of K, and the body was K few yards off. At ■ "serdict w r as returned. Wellington, Jan. 3. if ranis from Murray’s rfcralian flock arrived this ißiddeford’s To Awate lEast. Ktb the recent founder- Ihooner Laurel in Cook was given by Captain Big the statement made By a previous witness, ■ad sprung a leak by Btrip to Waitara, which B pieces of guernsey. Berated the evidence Hrams. Blery Cadets won the Bust the Wellington si Pearce, the offi- for the pro- who left here |H disturbance which |Hu on New Year’s ■ Ross, Jan. 3. and a half years to-day. She hot jam Bn on the floor'to that it is very §SHill survive. Jan. 3. into Cronan- BB hvo miners ob- gold as the Plenty of will be soon ■Hid pegging are HHHdin, Jan. 3. HHBch Committee the Canter- players 1 lection. The Collinson, Haskell, !^S|^R lor ) Parker, Jan. 3. the May ave seven fjuanti ty s to the ' Hs . seven B at the

A New Feminine Craze.

A correspondent writes : —A new craze has taken possession of American woman kind, aid that is the fashion of tatooing the limps, breast, or shoulders in Indian ink. <J : ail; places the Quaker city of Philadelphia Is the most given to it. The ope rat of;;, mostly female, but not always so, hav* their hands full of business. Mon.ogrinis, devices, the names of friends, lovers, «■ relatives, are pricked into the skin, unlit one is puzzled to think how ther’ beir the torture. A reporter was admitted to one of those operating rooms'/ and saw it all through a screen. One woman had no less than eight devices, in cluding monograms, crosses, half-moons, &c., tatsoed from the knee down. Lately the women have become almost crazy about it. The charges range from sdol. to 50d0i., according to design. All Eastern and Southern cities are possessed with this craze, which has extended to Chicago,l St.' Louis, and this coast. I suppose you iwve not yet got to this pitch of fashirbable disfiguration in New Zea land, although it was an open secret there a quarter of a century ago that tatooing was not unknown to - the families of the earliest white inhabitants,' especially in the far north. It may have gone out of fashion, however, and it would.be well not to revive it.

The Claimant in Prison.

(Manchester News.)

' A correspondentpvrites:—The Claimant is still in Her Majesty’s convict prison in Portsmouth, and is employed on the dock yard extension removing and stacking timber. He has just'completed one out of the two terms of seven years’ penal servitude to which he was sentenced, although in reality he has served but five years and six months, a remission of the remaining eighteen months having been earned by him as a “ reward for conduct, willing industry, and full performance of his allotted task. ” The Claimant has now commenced the. second term of sentence, which, like the first term, is seven years pf penal servitude, but to which are attached the like privileges < J eighteen months’ remission. During the last few weeks his health and spirits have wonderfully improved, and this is attributed to the good tidings that have

readied him from outside (not officially) that the unwearied efforts of his friends to obtain his release are soon'to be crowned with success, and at the next general election he will not only be a free man, but will be standing on the hustings sur rounded by friends and admirers, soliciting the suffrages of the . Hotting ham electors. These tidings have nearly turned the poor man’s brain with joy. The sad- thought that they may not be realised does apparently sometimes flash across his, mind, for he speaks to his fellow prisoners of the time (last March) when he petitioned ' the Home Secretary that his two sentences of seven years might run concurrently, and of the de cided answer that was given to that petition. “ The governor was instructed to inform Arthur Orton, alias Thomas Castro, alias Roger Tichborne, that his petition had been carefully considered, and that Her Majesty’s Principal Secre tary of State could not see sufficient grounds to justify him in advising Her Majesty tc comply with the prayer there of. ” This answer took from the Claimant the last remnant of hope, and he re signed himself to the stern fact that .he must serve out both sentences without remission, except what might be earned by good conduct and industry. There fore he resolved- to work with a will, never dreaming of release till the last mark had been earned.- How such a change in Kis cireumstanpes comes the Claimant cannot understand; but he believes and trusts in his friends, who, he says, would never-elate him, with such hopes if there was the remotest chance of their not being realised. He tells his fellow prisoners all that he will do for them should he be returned for Nottingham, lie will, he says, take up their cause, and do all he can to ameliorate their con dition. He will try to get for them more bread, greater remission, and a better system of discipline. In anticipation of •his Farliamentary duties the- Claimant is reading and, “cramming” himself with the best , works on political economy that lie can obtain from the prison library; lie is improving himself in his knowledge of the English language, and sometimes studies elocution. At the exercises on Sunday when the prisoners are allowed to converse together, he picks out the best educated men in the yard to talk with them and elicit informa tion with x view to his Parliamentary career. Although the Claimant is confi dent of a speedy release, yet no official communication on the subject lias been made to him. He is not even in ‘/orders.” Some s.iiovt time before a prisoner’s dis charge he is put into what is called “orders,” that is, he is allowed to grow his hail* and beard and whiskers to any length and fashion lm pleases.. The Claimant, we are informed, has not yet been placed in these,' “orders.” And altogether, taking one thing with another; the" Claimant’s speedy release may be deemed to be somewhat apocryphal.

An Awful Complaint.— When a man becomes afflicted with the awful com plaint of writing personal puffs of himself or a village newspaper, under a thin guise of news, he is not cured by a coldness on the part of the editor The inveterate self flatterer simply carries “ the news” to the paper over the way, and lavs the flattering unction to his soul that the world is blind. It is such things as these that keeps a newspaper man away from church. He stays at home and ponders on the thinness of the stiff of which humanity is sometimes constructed. American paper.

'Pastures.—' The droppings of animals on the pastures should be scattered and snread. This not only manures the field, but prevents injury to the spots covered with droppings. , A dressing of plaster over the pasture will be useful, sweetening the fouled spots and so avoiding the un equal character of the surface caused by the neglect of cattle to eat down the herbage in other wise distasteful places. J.n Unfulfilled Mission. — Tne Patea “Mail” says “.The following is too o-ood to he lost : —A newspaper proprietor Ashburton, contesting the Mayoralty of that town the other day, was so san guine of being at the head of the. poll, that he had a gorgeous banquet.ffiid out fAr bis supnorters in honor of the evasion. He didn’t get in thought and wejjj-enot b|ard what became banqi^^B • H vli HB n

New and rather Agreeable Cure for Consumption.

The “ New York Sun” has printed a report of a conversation in a horse-car.be tween the lion. Ellis B. Schnabel and a consumptive. Schnabel told the coughing man that rock candy and rye whisky would cure any pulmonary complaint, and referredjiim. to several well-known per sons who have regained their health by the use of the mixture. His theory was that the direct cause of hereditary con sumption was a chronic ulceration of the lungs. It was-a scrofulous affection 1 , and jeame down from father to son the same as scrofula. A chronic inflammation would not heal ;> hut if it could be turned into an acute inflammation, it might.be cured. “In ninety-nine cases oiit of a hundred,” said Mr. Schnabel, “if you could"get into the lungs with a. stick, of caustic, by cauterization you might pro duce' the necessary acute inflammation, v and the patieny would recover.” He claimed that a cordial of rock candy aijS( rye , whisky takes Vtlie place of theJL Its use produces 4 a( semi-acuteJ|^Bßlr :i * a " I tion of the surface of the ting that organ iii a curable condition. . The moment alcohol-touches the stomach, it flashes into ) circulation by opening and expanding the capillary vessels br.'pores of c the stomach. As the saccharine matter combines witlvthe alcohol, both are trans mitted into tide blood arid sent to/jhe lungs. When the 'air you breathe strikes the blood in the lungs the alcohol pro- * duces the acute;)inflammation,, and ■ it-i is the only thing that will produce it. The acute inflammation draws thej blood to -the weak point, and the saccharine rriaftdr, taking advantage of the inflammation, builds up and strengthens the weakened organ. The membrane is. thickened and healed, and after a few weeks .car ‘bear 'all changes of weather with impunity. /.Such was Mr. Schnabel’s theory/, His recipe was five pounds of pure, white.'rbck, candy dissolved in a gallon of old rye whisky— the older the better. The whiskyVmust be distilled in the old-fashioned way with a copper worm. SteanyMistillatrdh de velops the latent poison of the berry, and fills the system wi(h fusil,and other deadly oils. Colored, rock candy is. poisonous. The yellow tinge shows the presence; of an insoluble earth, deleterious! to.;, :i the stomach and dangerous. The clear white rock is pure crystallized sugar , the, most nourishing of all substances. • ’ The five pounds of candy should be put into a gallon, of whisky. The demijohn should be well shaken three or . four , times a'day, and the .mixture is not to ho -used until the candy is dissolved. The phtieiit may take a sherry wineglass full on going to bed,,and two-thirds as much.,on an empty stomach in the morning. He can carry a flask in his) pocket, and take a spoonful half a dozen times a day. Night sweats will disappear, and the patient will get a long refreshing sleep. Lung fever will go, and he will feel no more pain in his chest. While taking this cordial the patient mu9t / limit his diet. He must keep his stomach Jl employed in taking up rich and nourishing matter. All vinegars, pickles, sour wines,' malt drinks, and salt provisions must be avoided. Touch no fresh pork, for' it pro motes .ulceration. Do away vvith coffee,' for it fevers the blood. Drink black tea. Eat roast beef rare, broiled steaks, mutton chops well done, toasted bread; and all kinds of vegetables. The great .object is to enrich the . blood. One of the best articles of fdod is a rum omelette made exclusively of the yolk of' eggs. In the Southern States, rock • candy and corn whisky has been a favorite drink for years, taking the place of the old Georgia peach- - brandy and honey. The Southerners say that corn-whisky is as good/for" con sumptives as rye, but this is denied by ' Mr. Schnabel. ‘ '• ./ *;•

Terrible Collision at Sea.

By the arrival at Liverpool of, a Spanish steamer, Puerto Rico, information has been received of a disastrous collision, which resulted in the sinking of a largo ' \ United States schooner and the loss of all v of her crew. The „ disaster occurred in Chesapeak Bay, between the above-named steamer and an unknown schooner. It ' . appears that the Puerto Rich, .with a" valuable cargo, principally grain, 'left Baltimore about mid-day on September 16, bound for Liverpool. ' About eight p.m. she was about 60 miles off Baltimore, the night being fine, when the lights of a large schooner were seen, and short!/ afterwards she came across the bows'of the steamer. The latter was going at a y good speed at the time, and struck the other vesselclose by the bow with suchforce that she was entirely cut in- two, and sank in three minutes afterwards. The engines of the steamer were immediately stopped, 1 but the rate at which she was going car ried her a distance of a quarter of a mile | from the scene of the disaster before a ’ j boat could be lowered. Immediately the collision took place, the pitiful shrieks the perosns on board the schooner rent thfBBB air, whilst one voice was Heard disMnot4jffß| calling out'for a boat to be sent to them. . With remarkable promptitude a boat was launched from the steamer, and pulled to the scene of the mishap, followed imme diately by a second, boat, for .the purpose j of picking up a.ny of the erewq but although ■ - the boats cruised around for fully an hour, ' J not a single living person could be sben on the spot which but a few minutes before I rang with the despairing cries of drowning men, being then as silent as the grave. Both of the masts of the vessel were lying ‘ ; l on the water, and bore evidence of the ' I force of the collision, which li&d the effect 1 of turning them completely out. of the un- 1 fortunate schooner. The Water around [ was remarkably clear of wreckage and no- !‘ thing could he picked up which bould give - 1 any clue to the identity of the vessel, \ The boats after their futile search, returned I to the steamer, which was only founcjUpf have been damaged in the rigging, fore-topmast having'been'broken and a sail carried away. The steamer anchored ■; and remained there until daylight, when \ she proceeded back to Baltimore, but on fl arrival there she was ordered to continue her voyage to Liverpool. Even at Balti more the name of the vessel' 'could not be ascertained while the steamer was there, : but when seen before the collision she ap- iKI peared to be a large United States built schooner, probably about. 400 tons. She ||| had two masts, and at the time of the collision she was proceeding at a smart ,'yyS l 1 ace under full canvas. Several persons ' were seen on deck, but the number of the 1 V/’ crew was of course not known to those on T board the steamer, though it was conjee- ; T tured that she would have at least six or eight hands.’ ’ V* ■ jjm

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