TOWN EDITION.

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 2301, 9 August 1887, Page 3

TOWN EDITION.

•fI'KH UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. I Wbiaingtoic, This Da/. . The Native Minister has given inssructions to increase the constabulary post at Opunake tofifty men, which: was its original strength, and fouiteen extra men will be sent from here to-day or to-morrow. The . storm has blown over and the weather promises a fine day and. dry ground for the football match with Can-: terbury, which is just now. all the absorb-; mg topic in athletic circles.* , Over two inches and half of rain- fell yesterday and the previqns day. ' It -has been, decided to wind up the Young Men's Christian Association. An effort, will be made, however, to keep the Sunday evening meetings going.: It is understood the collapse is due to the want; of funds and the slackened intsrest in the objects of the Association.

Some thousands of people visited Princes«end, Tipton, yesterday, to wit» ness the funeral of Samuel Murfitt. who was recently' exhibited as the largest man in the world. The deceased, who died on Friday after a few days' illness, was a > ;natiT«j of Wimbhngton, Cambridge* shire, and was fifty*fi»e years of age. Hisldimenfridns were a* follow:'— Height, dfeetrl inch ;: weight, 40 stone ; girt of waste, 100 inches^ and/ tie measured 20 inches fcoundr the calf 6f the leg- -A hearse could not be found large enough' ; for-the-deceased -removal; and the body had/to;;bo. J cohVeyed on a flat. The ; sasbcs had to Jbe 'from the win^ i d6wß/-.and. nearly twenty men' were ein» ployed to get the coffin through the i window on to the flat.^-London Timei. : Jan. 26. .-:•■:.■ '■ ,_.-. ': :■■ -.■ ■"■/■/■'■--;: ■ We shall soou begin to think (remarks the Pall Mall Budget) that King Solo- ' mon'sMines are really in existence if I many more Hidden treasures come to light. It is only the* other day. that !£6,1)6b,000 was found in one «f the, harems of Hyderabad, but thbs« figure* jare paltry when compared with. the la^efc't [find reported from Morocco; The treat f/ discovered in the palace of an old rizitr, Iwhodied some time ago at Eabat, amonnt led to the enormous sum of £96,000,000 .sterling. The Emperor, like a wise man its saiid to hare instantly corifiiscated it .and it is nocr being conveyed to the Im«i perial cofEersat Fez. ; . : : . // .: •!