MELODRAMA.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 34, 9 February 1905, Page 2

MELODRAMA.

The great theatre was hushed to silence. The big scene of the thrilling melodrama was in progress, and with fascinated eyes and throbbing h aorta the audience watched the machinations of the adventuress, who was doing her best to bottle up the hero by means of poisoning his wine. Amid deathly stillness she poured the horrid powder furtively into his glass. "Come, Rupert 1" she cried, "let us drink to your success and the confounding of your enemies." His hand touched the glass. A girl in the gallery gasped, and then there came a sound of hurrying footsteps, and the comic man bounded in. Quick as thought he seized the glaoss and dashed it to the ground. ''Smatterod to sbattoms!" he cried bravely, but unintentionally. And wiien the house had got over laughing they cheered.

A particularly painful"'accident befell a youth named Harold Warner, 16 years of age, at the foundry of Messrs Massev Brothers this morning. He was holding a. heavy piece of heated iron, which tipped over and crushed the nail and adjokiing llesh of the third linger of his right hand, lie was treated by Dr. Wilkins as soon as possible, and it is hopsd no serious results will follow. A remarkable accident occurred tliis morning in Quay-street. A cart employed by Mr E. Wilson was standing outside the Palmerston Buildings, and the driver, .Frank Fletcher, had tied the nose bag to the horse's head. The threw up his head and got the nose bag in such a position that it began to choke him. At once he galloped ; off and shortly after dashed into anj other tau-t, knocking off the shafts of ! his own cart and throwing the driver j out on to the road. He was picked up I suffering from severe injuries, which are not yet known exactly. His ribs arc I hurt and he is much bruised. I Mr C. F. D. Cook, who has been I nominated for the Rhodes Scholarship Ifrom Canterbury College, has had a brilliant scholastic career. He went from Christ's College to the University ;on a junior scholarship and graduated as B.A. in 1903 with senior scholarships in La-tin and Greek. He is a keen general athlete, and was champion highjuniper of the University hist y.ear. Archbishop Kelly, of Sydney, arrived in Wellington yesterday, and with. Archbishop Carr, of Melbourne, the Bishops of Wilcannia, Sale and Sandhurst, Bishop Lenihan, of Auckland, and other K.C. clerics, proceeds to Christchureh to be present at the consecration of the new K.C. Cathedral. Dr. Eugene! O'Neill, of Dunedin, is visiting Dr. J. Hardie Neil for a few days. He came hither by way of Tanmaranni, and he goes back to Dunedin on Saturday. Dr. O'Neill wa/a surgeon in the Sixth Contingent, and prior to that was for a time senior resident medical officer of the Dunedin Hospital. He is a graduate of Otago University in medicine. The Hon. J. W. Barnieoat, MI.C, who died at Nelson recently at the age of 91, was one of the most venerated men in the province. Ho -w&s one of the earliest settlers in Nelson, being concerned in the original surveys, and a sur-| vivor of the tragic Wairan massacre following the survey of Te Rauparaha's land. Ho also assisted in the surveying j of Dunedin City. He was Speaker of the Nelson Provincial Council for several years, and was appointed M.L.C. in 1883, retaining his position till he retired in 1.8ft2. Amongst his children is Miss Constance Bamicoat, the wellknown Anglo-colonial journalist.