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Kaikoura Star, Volume XIV, Issue 762, 7 August 1894, Page 5

English officer in India discovered a working telephone between two temples at Panj, about mile apart ; system been in operation 2000 years. The Sydney Bulletin bad better be careful or it will lose all its Prohibition subscribers. It actually lias the audacity to saj’ that : The Rev. L. M. Isitt has a glib tongue, a fine talent for buffoonery, and the versatile impudence of a quack corndoctor. Mr J. T. Matson has filed. Secured creditors £3787 (secuiity £3880) ; unsecured £1876 ; assets £96. Bankruptcy attributed to depreciation in value of property. Motion of sympathy with Mr Matson carried : discharge recommended as speedily as possible.

An old man-of-war’s man named Neil Mcßride found dead near end of Waika-wa-Port Underwood track. Deceased had been ailing for some time, and was under medicaktreatment. Latterly he had been peculiar in his manner, apparently afflicted with strange hallucinations. lie bad lived in N. Marlborough for many years : was formerly engaged fishing at Nelson, and also at Port Underwood.

In cricket match at Peckham Rye between Camberwell Albion and Peckham Pushers latter going in second had 55 minutes in which to get 130 runs. The first ball sent down was driven hard and high, going into a tree and lodging in a rook's nest. While the fieldsmen was getting the ball, which was not lost as it could be seen ail the time, the batsmen succeeded in making 93 runs (the record for 1 hit), and the Pushers made the remainder required, with 4 men to go in.