Mrs Long, who the other day was sentenced at Christohureh to fourteen days in gaol for cruelty to her step children, seems to be a women of in tensely dramatic style, and quite as emphatic with her tongue as Bhe is with her hands. To quote her own words in her statement to the Bench: — ' I stand before a Higher Judge than any one in this room, whom I should not be afraid to meet, and by-and-bye both the little ones and all who are here will be also standing before that other Tribunal, and I say before that Almighty presence now, when I administered the strap to the boy I did it for love of the boy— l have acted by the children with love, and nothing but love.' Whatever the Higher Judge may think of it, the magistrate thought there was enough in the evidence to show that she had been cruel, and sentenced her accordingly. And the sentence is one that can only be approved.
Alice Elizabeth Goldsworthy can claim the honour of having approached nearer to a Jay Peesbip than any other woman in the colony. ' The last Gazette announces that this lady, holding, as the notice curiously states, the offioe of ' post master' of Opitonui, is authorised to take and receive statutory declarations under section 234, Justices of the Peace Act, 1882. It iB scarcely a hop from this position to a seat on the judicial bench, so that a glorious prospect is opened up to the tireless political female.
