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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume XII, Issue 504, 29 August 1867, Page 3

The Alleged Confession of Walter Thicker.— The editor of the Wellington Independent has received the following letter from Mr Stock ; “ Sir, —Tricker has not confessed to the murder of Mr Riyner, but certain prisoners say that !.o has —a very difle -ent matter. ' I have, through the kindness of the authorities, read a!! that has been alleged against him, and can easily prove that the charges are utterly worthless and untrue.—l am, Ac A. Stock. An Infant Suffocated by a Cat.— On the 22nd May, at Greenock, an infant five months old, daughter of Robert Wi!■on, baker, was suffocated by a cat. The mother had left the infant sleeping in bed while she ran to the green to put out the clothes for drying. She left the door open in order that she might hear the child, if it should awake and cry. She was just about fifteen minutes out of the house when the eldest of the three children came into the green. She sent her upstairs to see if baby was awake, and the girl returned crying that a large black cat was in the bed beside Jessie. The mother ran up etairs, and there was a strange cat on the infant. She threw it aside, and tried to awaken the baby, but it was motionless. Her screams alarmed (he neighbours ; and Dr. M'Caskio, who was passiug, went in and found the infant dead. Singular Discovery in America.—A lake has been aiscoverd in the State of lowa (U.S), occupying a surface of 2300 acres, which is between two and three feel higher than the surrounding country, and surrounded by a carefully built wail, ten or fifteen feet wide. When or by whom the wall, which is very old, was built, none can discover. The stones of the wall vary in weight from 100 pounds to th ee tons. There are no slones ou the land within ten miles around the lake.