g Sporting, and other interesting read-t ing matter vri"lj be found on cur' firat] Page. ,- / ■_ Captain Edwin telegraphs: — North west^to west and south gale;, glass rise; tidea^good; considerable-sea; indication of rSin ; strong ebb tides in the Straits. I Af the District Court this' morning, before District Judge Kettle, James Bridpland was charged with indecently assaulting: a young girl, and a further count was added ot common assault, on the 30th of December, on the' River Bank. The accused, who' was defended by , JTr Treadwell,. pleaded ,not guilty; The following juorors were ' emp'annel led; — Messrs Jas. Blewman, C. A. Sil cox'i.G." R.- Saundcrs, H. Greaves, Rl Gilmour, J. Andrew, J. W. .T; Man aeno, R. M. Gatenby, A. E. King, H. MeKinnon, J. Dean, W. Cannons. Mr Gatenby was chosen foreman. The case was" partly heard,- "when the Court ad^ l'ourned till Friday morning, out of re spect to the memory of Her Majesty the.- Queen. The Pall Mall Gazette, in that spirit of strict utilitarianism characteristic of its columns during what' is known in bhe vernacular as the silly season," re cently opened its pages to a discussion i\pon -what ''constitutes the longest word. The gentleman 'who opened the ball set an easy main of 23 letters and II syllables with "honourificabilitudini? ty." 4 This 'was promptly followed .by several words of equal length and 'equal ugliness, and a* correspondent finally iißposed of it with ''antidisestablisn mentarianism." ' This, while comprising to, equal number of syllables, claimed five.jnoro letters, and for sctme 1 time ceignfd supreme. Then an ingenious student, with a turn for theoretical chemistry, knocked the reigning c word into "that nebulous " region known as galley west" with "dicthyldimethyldia nadobenzophonone,"" an aniline >e?>ni lound for which he gives the chaptci vnd. verso which were stipulated for ar ,i \neoessary accompaniment. ' gain's memorableessays of course pro luced the now time-honored "CoAstanti nopolitanischerdudelsackpfeiffeuniaohcr- »esellenherberge,*' though, strangely enough, ■ his -"A-thanaßianscheglaubens. bekonntnitz" was' overlooked. 