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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4381, 22 February 1922, Page 3

An instance of what sometimes occurs in Auckland was afforded, when a woman appeared in the dpek at the Police Court, Auckland, on Saturday. She was of a refined apeparance, and, could hardly stand. Both her eyes were blackened and closed until they were mere and it was said her husband had done this to her. She had gone out in desperation and got drunk. She was tottering along Khyber Pass, and two little children were with her. Sergeant Rowell of the police told the court that the husband had called to see her in ths cell and had refused to bail her out. The Salvation Army had taken her under their wing, and the adjutant undertook to go with her tq her home and see how things were. She was convicted and discharged.

Mlle. Eleanora, a young English girl, f*s to attempt Blondin’s famous feat of walking across the Niagara Falls on a rope. The attempt will take place next June; The rope will be a slanting one, and she will go across ana back. Mlle. Eleanora is a little brunette of ■seventeen, entirely unassuming. She declared that the idea of walking across Niagara hap no terrors for her. "If a man can do it,” she said confidently,, "I am sure 1 I can/ You see, I was born into the business. My mother is a wire-walk-er, and I started to go along ropes and wires as soon as I could walk. It comes just as naturally to me as walking up a hill. In my present act I walk up a slanting rope to a height of about 70 feet, and then sit on the rope and slide down. Then I walk up backwards, and slide down on my feet. Although it looks harder, it is really easier to go up backwards, because you are.in a better balancing position. I balance myself with a paper umbrella, and applause does not affect tAy nerves. I have never had an accident, even in training. ■ I have slipped from the rope once or twice, but there is no danger, because I atu cauglht by my safety belt and come down hand over hand.”