At Barri an old man, named Gissi Vincenzo, aged seventy-eight, has just been sentenced to five years’ imprisonment for manslaughter. Vincenzo had only been released from prison a few days when he committed the crime. He declared in Court that his object in killing the mail was to get back to prison. On hearing his sentence, accused said : “It is too little. Five years- pass quickly. Sentence me for life. Otherwise I shall have to kill another man when I leave prison, in order to be taken hack.” Vincenzo, adds a Rome telegram, has spent thirty of his seventy-eight years in
prison. A devastating pest has made its appearance in potato crops in Hamilton (Vic.). It is a small, whitish fly, and settles on potato stems in countless numbers. The leaves of the plant afterwards present a whitish appearance, as though badly frost-bitten. The pest has also alighted on turnip tons and cabbage, but lias caused very little damage to them so far.
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Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 326, 29 January 1902, Page 3
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