has been brought before the magistrate in Octacamund, and is exciting much interest in those parts. The accused and defendant both belong to the hill-tribe of Toda, a most peaceably inclined people who earn their living by sowing paddy and rearing buffaloes. They have always kept themselves very much to themselves and it is the first time on record when they have appealed to the British Law to intervene. It is a case of two men and one woman, the wife becoming tired of her lord and master, and deeply enamoured of another, cloped with the man of her fancy. To appease the enraged husband the "corespondent" sent him six buffilocs. According to Toda law, apparently, this is not unusual. However the husband regards himself the aggrieved party and has therefore apod to British Law. Te will be interesting to seo how the magistrate will deal with the case and under which head of Criminal Procedure it will be tried
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.