NEW SOUTH WALKS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1536, 19 April 1887, Page 2

NEW SOUTH WALKS.

A MISADVENTURE At Madgee a boy, aged seven, while " playing " with a eun, f hot another, aged four. The, victim ia not expected to recover. MOKB IAREIKINISM. A young lady was act upon by three larrikins, who attempted a criminal assault. Her cries alarmed the ruffiuia, and they decamped. The lady will rather suffer m secret than face a Police Court. CASH BETTING. The polJoa are to be instructed to prevent caah betting m the colony. This decision is due to the fact that certain persons have been fined at Albury, while it is known that oaßh betting la carried on with impunity at Randwlck under the very nose cf the polioe. A POISONING CASE. An extraordinary attempt at poisoning haß be9n committed at Fairfield, at the residence of Carreu, a mining warden's clerk. On Sunday morning at breakfast Curran's family noticed a peculiar tasto m the tea, and an examination of tho kattle m tho kitchen being made, strychnin* was discovered to have been mixed with the water. Aa on the day previoua Currao'a two doga died from poisoning, it ia sua pected that a deliberate attempt to kill the whole family by poisoning the water supply was made, MAGNETIC ROOKS, Mr J. Qulnan, ex-Inepector of Fiahar'gs m New fcioutb Wales, asserts that the rooka m the vicinity of Greeu Cape, where the Ly-ee-Moon was wrecked, have magnetic attraction, which may influence ships' compasses. He says that fishing parties used to throw eheath knives and pocket oompassea on the rooka when the compasses would not work, nnd the knives were highly magnetised, Buffictent'y so to lift the blade of a dinner knife frcm the table. He thinks tint highly charged magnetic rocka extending many miles along the ooaat, which vessels hug to mako quick passages, may oause derange* menta of the oompasses, and at nigh^w m foggy weather lead to wrecks. -A^P"'