RELIGIOUS MANIA

A man giving his name as George Forbes, aged 56, was charged before Mr. Cooke, at the Marylebone Police Court, on suspioion of being a person of unsound mind, found wandering in Bolsize Phrk, Hampstead. A constable deposed to seeing the prisoner walking about barefooted, with his boots under his arms ; his manner being very strange, witness asked- him what he was doing, when he said he was the King of the Cannibal Islands, and that he was walking about barefooted to sanctify the earth, which was God's free gift ; ho took the prisoner to the station, and there the doctor said he was suffering from religious mania. That morning be madu some rambling statements on different subjects. In answer to the charge, the prisoner said that at tho time the constable came up to him be was walking about thinking and communicating with himself. He filled bis lungs with-pure air, and he looked at the crows in the fields. Aftor rambling on in this manner for somo time, the prisoner said, — " It is quite ludicrous. You are all gone wroug. I am the only sane man in this court. All the crows are outside in the fields the same as Adam and Eve were." Mr. Cooke made an order that the man bo taken to the workhouse. Tho prisoner on leaving the dock said, — I shall file proceedings under the 23rd chapter of Matthew against you."

Auckland, September 19. Mr. Winter, the purchaser of the wrecked steamer Taupo, has returned from Australia, having been successful in finding experienced men and appli ances for raisiug the vessol. Opera tions are to be commenced shortly, and tho venturers are sanguine of success.
MARRIAGE IN AUOKLAND.
