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Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1635, 13 August 1887, Page 3

They have some " well-oonnected paupers ■' m Auckland, for at a recent meeting of tl fl Charitable Aid Board m that city, the Chairman was aßked if it were true an Auckland bank manager's grandmother was m receipt of charitable aid. The reply was that his mother-in-law was m receipt of relief. He was then aßked if the grandmother of a rising Auckland solicitor was receiving aid, and was answered m the affirmative.

A coroner's jury m Sydney have returned & verdict of " Murder " against a herbalist m Sydney named John Willis Smith. The evidence showedHhat Smith, who had represented that he was an Amerioan doctor, but not registered m the Colony, had attended ft young woman named Cissy Bradahaw ; that her death was due to certain poisonous drugs used to procure abortion, which were found m her stomach ; arid that precisely similar drugs were found on the prisoner's premise!.

A membor of one of the most families m Austria, Prince Alfred von Wredo has startled the nerves of the aristooraoy by setting up as a greengrocer and f ruiteror at Terctholdsdort, near Vienna. The Prince, having bocome ruined, has decided that m order to make money a good trade is better than a small Government appointment, and ho has sensibly deoided to attend to his business m person.

The consumption of spirits, wines, and malt liquors m the Wellington Hospital during July shows an increase of i\ pints per consuming patient as compared with the corresponding month of last year, the quantities being $k pints and 5 pints respectively per head-