At an enquiry at Maryborough (Victoria) into the cause of the death of a Miss Hilder jury found that “ deceased died from con gestion of the lungs a”d brain caused by taking a narcotic poison prescribed bv Dr Cecil Jackson,” against whom a verdict of manslaughter was returned. Dr Jackson, who is well-known in Southland, has been liberated on his wife’s bail of L 590.
A converted clown in London has been convicted of bigamy. The culprit, Henry Llewlyn, with several aliases, became a shoemaker in early life, and later a clown with a travelling circus, and manned wife No 1. After a few years he tired of the wicked life, and happening to be in gaol with another of the troupe, embraced re ligion and the opportunity to sever his con nection with the saw-dust ring and his wife. Ha advertis 'd as an evangelist, preached, and married again ; and for this he has been sentenced to four months’ im prisonment.
A music publisher named Benjamin Hind was selling off a stock of damaged music. He had the list attractively displayed, his name being attached to each piece. The result can be imagined from the following specimen lines :

“ Where shall wo stand when freedom calls?” B.Hind <( i *h, let me like a soldier fall ” B.Hind 1 ‘ She wore a wreath of rosea ” B. Hind “ I fear no foe ” B. Hind “ She’s all my fancy painted her ” B. Hind The effect was even more ridiculous in others In fact, we cannot continue the list, for (to quote Hamlet) we might say, ‘‘Thus bad begins, but worse remains ” B. Hind.
