Miscellaneous Extracts.

Hastings Standard, Issue 253, 22 February 1897, Page 3

Miscellaneous Extracts.

AN INTERRUPTED MARRIAGE

A tale of an interrupted marriage at the Palmerston Registry Office was (says the Manawatu Standard) unfolded in graphic language at the Magistrate's Court recently during the progress of a Native case. Hipera te Rangi, a dusky matron in the sere and yellow leaf, told with becoming solemnity how her husband, to whom she had been married according to Maori cnstom nine years ago, had been attracted by the youthful charms of Rangi Maria, daughter of a well-known chief at Oroua Bridge, and of how at a subsequent period the erring couple had interviewed the Registrar for the purpose of being married. Hipera was informed of the contemplated ceremony, and proceeding to the office arrived in time to object to the proceedings, and although confronted with a decree absolute of the Supreme Court dissolving a previous marriage of Rangi Maria, the Registrar refused to tie the desired knot. The same evening the three interested parties went home in the same train, and on arrival at Oroua Bridge the youthful Rangi Maria vented her disappointment on Hipera, and the assault committed there formed the subject of the case before the Court. AN IMPOSING CEREMONY. The Wairarapa Star is responsible for the following yarn : —At the meeting of the Masterton Volunteer Fire Brigade; last week, the following letter was read from the Wellington Municipal Brigade : —" To the Captain of the Volunteer Fire Brigade, Masterton.— I)kais Sik,--Would you kindly present with the ticket and medal enclosed, with the Wellington firemen's compliments. I hope that you will not think that I am taking too great a liberty, but will see it in the same light as we do. The ticket and medal were awarded to him by the members for his story of tlx; pig hunt and various other tales too numerous to mention. I will now conclude, hoping you will take no offence. Trusting that you will pin the medal on his breast at the next monthly meeting. I am, iVC., C. Mclmtkk, Acting Secretary." Captain Daniell, in a neat speech, made the presentation on behalf of the Wellington Brigade, pinning the medal on the breast of the happy recipient. The medal was. a handsome one, with an advertisement for a well-known brand of whisky on one side and the following inscription on the other: ■' Pro--inted to by the Amalgamated Society of Liars." A card of membership to the same association accompanied the medal. Needle.*.-, to say the fireman, whose name fetr obvious reasons we have suppress.>d, enjojed the joke immensely.

KXTRAOKI > INA liV MMI >ICAL .SCANDAL. Writing on !>< c« uilx r .*ith. the Paris corr<'.»i>oinlt*JH of the Melbourne A<.'w says : Two \vell-e>tal>lidied sur^eun.-i in Paris have !•• < n arr> -t<-d, and a third, an American practitioner, is •• wanted." Mi- Ma l ii'iiii]i on, a--'« d 2;.5, n hand'Miim; -h lady, dm dr. . • of the trying -oil department Hedfem'i ii..in t< r c-taldi-hnu lit, died u-id. iiiy a (t-w day: ayo whilf uniii-r ( vtHii' P f an u|m: ration in a doctor's .<ui>fery, aid«-d l<y two .'■■■w/cr'/f*. Tin; di-.tlh in jwctur diil not like • the eireum -t.uio refused the rtitie.i', to inter, mj tjlir r« 111 tl». **• u Cf»t to tile tuorguv f.,r uii'lii il Ii -il examination. *1 he r< -■ dt v> t- t. i I'orl dial d< .ith tan-' d in an utu-mpt to •• < to-, trim itia! i lid- 111 *;., im-.-illtin.i Mi-s 'I "ii • j-it" «- Th. v t. i. .ii. d !.< h.. ih. . n ihv i.! "■ "( i lii.t'l'.i fi>i >!i.' h.> I I em.e an! d> -f r. i l-> di-tiny th<-tvidiln-t -"..-tI.H '1 I ' oil'.: e implicated ww a (. <»j>Uuu A diallflyUUihvnl Wflttr (ill

subjects. "When requested to come to Paris to explain his letters to his mistress —he lived in the suburbs —he entered his study and shot himself. His wife and three young children were in the next room. The books and correspondence of the arrested medical men, and " the list of their clients operated upon," have been seized by the police, also the instruments, &c. The body of a young woman who died from a similar operation a year ago has been exhumed, and is undergoing medico-legal examination. The fee for the operation was 1000 franco, and care in the doctor's house during a fortnight. Everybody whose name is registered and letters seized will be prosecuted. Imagine the scandal ! There were foreign clients, and some will be cited as witnesses for the prosecution.