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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 52, 25 November 1907, Page 8

' The possession' of £3000 left to her" by ■ a relative so unhinged the niind. of a young woman named' 8011,, of gtcrljstrqom,: Cape Colony, that she committed"|!suicjtl(C;' . The loss of a brooch of/considerable value intrinsically, and prized as: an heirloom, lias for somo months caused keen regret to a certain family resident-at Duiiedin, says a local paper. Its disappearance was as- complete as it was unaccountable Whether it .had bco'ii mislaid ) ..dropped, or.abstracted, could not bj ascertained. Tho only thing certain was that it had vanished. It turned:'up. oh Saturday, afternoon in a rather ..curious way. The lady, of tho house had presented .tho, laundress with somo superannuated garments, and in sorting them over at homo the laundress found, pinned on to the neck of a. blouse, the long-lost brooch, which she immediately, returned. . .'.■'.'.. . . . ■ ■

Tboro is a district near :Whangarei wliery' the teachers all have a terrible time, so tho secretary of the Auckland:-Education Board informed that body last week.- --The;residents have tried to oust every 'teacher who lias been there, and are again pursuing the samiobject. This teacher's reports were entirely satisfactory, however, and the. baiters of an underpaid profession got scant sympathy. "Excellent fellows insido their own boundary, iudustrious settlers, but a.''.cantankerous lot. Thoy can't run a creamery or a-road-board without fighting." They will:have to fight , tho preset teacher a while yet. "