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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume V, Issue 225, 10 February 1865, Page 1 (Supplement)

Lameotabve OootJiißENGfc— The death of the young man and young--woman who were found dead in the sand on Thursday morning last, formed the subject of a coroner’s inquest yesterday. The inquest was commenced on‘Friday last, and adj | rued to yesterday, in order to allow Dr, Renwick time to make a post-mortem examination ef the body of the girl, as the jury.were not satisfied from the position in which the .bodies were found —their heads arid shoulders being out of the sand —that they died from suffocation. It appeared from the evidence, that the youth, who was named Hugh Green, and was about seventeen years of age, had been accustomed to work in barbers’ shops, and at the time of the fatal occurrence he was in the employment of a barber in Marketstreet. The girl was named Jane Pennington, and was aged sixteen years. -Her mother, who was married to a colored man, and was not a woman of good character, died about three weeks ago, and since that occurrence the deceased girl had spent the greater part of her time away from home, wandering about with dissolute characters. Green had been intimate with her a considerable time, and on his person were found a number of letters, purporting to have been written by her to him when he was recently away for several weeks at Lake Macquarie on a fishing excursion. She could neither read nor write, so that the letters must have been written by a friend at her dictation. On a recent occasion she saw Green speaking to a strange woman, and a girl, who was in the habit of wandering about the street with the deceased girl, said, she (Pennington) said she would poison herself if she saw him do it again. Since his return to Sydney, however, they appear to have been on pretty good terms. Green loft his employer’s shop at the usual hour on Wednesday evening last, and no one appears to have seen hin afterward till his body was found on Thursday morning. A milkman named John McNeil was passing over the sandhills at-about six o’clock on Thursday morning and saw lying betweenjtwo sandhills near Cleveland-st. the upper part of the body of deceased. McNeil went up to' the spot, took hold of one of deceased’s hands, and found it cold. The tody was on its left side, with sand covering the lower extremities up to the loins; the head and shoulders were clear, except a small quantity of loose sand with which the face and clothes were covered. The body of the unfortunate girl was lying about eighteen inches or two feet from that of her paramour, and a greater portion of tier body was covered deeply by the sand, but her head was clear except as regarded the loose sand, which would not impede respiration. The police were informed of the circumstance, and shortly afterwards both bodies were removed to the deadhouse of the Benevolent Asylum. The deceased girl had no boots or stockings on when her body was discovered, but they were dug out of the sant) subsequently, as well as'her hair-net. Dr. Ranwkk made a post mortem examination of the body of the female, and found satisfactory evidence that death resulted from asphixia by suffocation. The appearances.also indicated that the poor creature had struggled a good deal after the sand fell on her. The bank of sand that fell on them was about three feet in thickness, and was supposed to weigh about a ton. The post mortem appearances of the female’s body, and the external appearances of the body of the male, afforded ample evidence of immoral courses on the part of both. The jury returned the following verdict:—“We find that Hugh Green and Jane Pennington came to their deaths by the falling of a sand-bank upon their bodies, at Rcdfern, but from what cause we have no evidence to determine, and we believe they were immoral characters. —Sydney Herald.

When Sir George Grey last visited Dunedin. —It is now about fourteen years since Sir George Grey last visited Dunedin, lie did , not come attended by much pomp or ceremony! The only newspaper Otago then boasted recorded his Excellency’s arrival without much flourish—The cutter Fly with the Governor on board arrived yesterday,” and he was welcomed, heartily no doubt, but in a homely fashion. The, Dunedin of then was a vastly different place from what it is now. A,few rudely constructed tenements, unformed streets, and scattered . cultivations marked the site of the present flourishing city. Little did Sir George Grey, or the hard-working hopeful settlers of Otago conceive, that, in a fewshort years the then insignificant village would undergo the metamorphosis, it has done. Although, even at that time there were many reasons for the confidence of the settlers in the future of their adopted residence, they could not in their wildest ■ dreams anticipate the brilliant career which has since marked the history'of the Province. There are many amongst us who can recal the occasion of Sir George Grey’s, last visit, and they can understand, to. a certain extent, the surprise and pride which his Excellency must experience when het finds, the little hamlet .of hia remembrance transformed into .the most important and popiflaateily. ixt. the, colonyOf Ojgeu Xitqqs,

An Otago paper gives the following under the heading of “ Struck by lightning:”—“On Saturday afternoon, between four and five o’clock, a thunder-storm was experienced at Deep Stream which, in one instance at least, was attended by disastrous results. We learn from Mr. Kenneth McLeod, a storekeeper, who was'cdming to town, that about half a mile this side of Deep Stream a six-horse team was struck by lightning, and three of the horses were killed, while tfce driver, Patrick Galvin, and another driver who was with him, named Robert McGeorge, were struck insensible. The latter soon recovered, but the injury received by Galvin was more serious, and he was conveyed on a stretcher to the nearest hotel, where restoratives were applied with good effect. By Sunday morning his life was considered out of danger. The fluid, it appears, left a red mark along the left arm, across the stomach, and down the right leg. McGeorge was struck in the knee, where a mark was visible. It was somewhat singular that the two horses next to the leaders, and the shaft horse, escaped unhurt, the leaders and the horse in front of the shafts being killed. Two of the horses were the property of David M ann, and were, unfortunately, all he owned in the world.", The Bendigo Advertiser, a Victorian paper, gives the following account of a singular egg : “ Mr. W. Taylor, railway guard, called at this office yeslerday, and showed a curious egg laid that morning, at his house, High street, by a black Spanish hen. • It was only a moderately sized egg, but on one side a capital T, with a 5 underneath, both three-quarters of an inch long, were marked most distinctly by a raised roughness oh the shell, and this on being inspected through a microscope had the appearance of minute eggs. Various surmises had been made as to how the shell became so marked. Natural history furnishes instances where the force of imagination on the part of the mother left its imprint on the unborn child, and a similar cause may have been operating in this instance, the result being that Taylor is to have five chicks of the noble Spanish breed. This curiosity is to be seen at the Royal Hotel, View. Point.” [We suspect the above is merely a clever trick of Mr. Taylor’s; such eggs are easy enough to produce. Take an ordinary egg, and write in melted tallow, stearine or wax,'what you please on the shell, and then immerse it in vinegar or other acid; the tallow, &c., protects the shell where it has been put, while the acid acts on all the rest dissolving it away. As confirmatory of the above, we give the following tit-bit] : —“Some years since, when everything that happened was supposed to be connected with the end of the world, the eggs laid in certain places had iusci iptions, bidding people prepare. We have heard of a poultry-maid who had long scorned a shepherd, not because she disliked him, but because she had not made up her mind. She gave in at once when the eggs took part in the affair. Two days in succession she found them bearing the inscription—‘ Crule gal Marree Tummas.’ ” A Beautiful Legend. —The Lapwing was once a Princess (Shanzauea) who hearing of the return of a favourite brother long absent,- in' her anxiety to meet him with some refreshment, snatched up a pot of hot milk from the fire, and placing it on her head, hurried out in the direction in which he was falsely said to be coming, heedless, of the burn caused by the heated vessel. Uhavailingly for years she sought for this brother, calling out “Brother! O Brother!” until Allah, moved to compassion, gave her wings, and changed her into a lapwing, the better to accomplish her purpose; hence this bird is so often wheeling round in long flights, as if in quest of some. one, uttering a melancholy cry resembling “Brother! 0 Brother!’’. The Mahomedan women call the lapwing “the sister of the brother,” and when they hear its cry in the evening run from their houses, and throw water in the air, that the bird may use it to assuage the pain of the burn on the top of the head, still marked by some black feathers. — Notes and Queries. The Scotch Maeiiiage Law. —lt is positively the ’.aw of Scotland, that if a man and woman, being alone together in a rrom, enter bona fide into a verbal contract of marriage, they are from that moment man and wife. The sole limit to this proposition is, that the parties themselves are not competent witnesses, and that therefore if one of them, after he has come out of the room, denies the alleged contract, it can only be proved by means of admissions which' he may incautiously have made, Take Mrs, Longworth’s assertion, that on a certain Sunday in April, 1857, Major Yelverton read aloud from the Prayer-book the marriage service of the Church of England ; if that assertion bo true, she is undoubtedly his wife. Yet the only evidence she could adduce was, that the woman in whose house she lodged said that she once heard the Major reading aloud; that she could not distinguish lus words,, hilt that he was reading “in a religious voice.”— Spectator. Headache. —A very curious method of reduo'l- - the intense headache experienced by fever patients has been lately pointed out by M. Guyon. It consists simply in pressure exerted over the integument covering the temporal arteries. It was discovered quite accidentally in feeling the temples, other than the wrists, in order to ascertain the frequency of the "pulse. Whilst the physi-, can compressed the vessel, the patient exclaimed, Come-mus me soulagez, and thus indicated the result produced by diminishing the supply of blood to the surface of the cranium. M. Guyon does not consider that any serious results of an injurious . nature , follow - compression of ; the, ‘" temporals,” Inasmuch as the blood finds channels in the various other branches of the “ external carotids.” NUK3EKT EHTME. ’ Air—“ What are the little Girls made off?” What is an Englishman made of? Boast beef and jam tartr And i a pint of good clar’t. And that’s what an Englishman’s made of. Whet is a Frenchman, pray,madeof? Horse steak, and frog fritter, - And absinthe so bitter,. And that’s what a Frenchman is made of. [Therefore, iny dears, you" must be kind to,a. Frenchman, and give him some of your nice dinner, whenever you can, and teach him better. Wipe your months, you little pigs, do.]—