WANTED A LIGHT AT THE POST OFFICE.

Kumara Times, Issue 2888, 30 January 1886, Page 3

WANTED A LIGHT AT THE POST OFFICE.

[to the editor.] Sir—'Allow me through your columns to call the attention of some body—either the Borough Cmncil, or postal authorities, or perhaps both—to what Seems (to me at all events) a great want, viz, a light at the Post Office after sundown. There are many people "who are so situated that they have to poßt letters, <fcc, after dark ; and most people like to see that the letter, or whatever it may be, is stamped properly, and is put into the proper place. In order to.attend to all this, at pie sent there are a lot of matches used to show a light for the time, which, to say the least of it, does not look well for a town like Kumara. Theu mauy wish to see how their watches are by tele graph time, who only visit the town at night. They cannot do so, simply foi want of a light; and there are a great many commercial men who are com- j parative strangers to the place, whose business requires their letters to be posted after dark; very often they must find the inconvenience also. In fact, look at it anyhow you like, there should be a light at the Post Office for the benefit of the public.—l am &c, H. Brown. Kumara, January 30, 1886. AN ITALIAN HORROR. The trial began at Rome, on Thursday, the 10th of December, of a butcher named Tozzi and his wife, son and daughter, who are charged with the the murder of one Poggi, also a butcher. The motives for the crime were trade jealousy and family disputes. Poggi was entrapped into Tozzi's cellar, where the murder was committed. The body of the viciim was cut into pieces and the remains were scattered in a suburban wood. The blood was boiled into black puddings, which were sold in Tozzi's Bhop. The son made a confession. He narrated the story in Court with cold-blooded cynicism, which provoked a howl of fury, the audience yelling ' " Away with him to the scaffold !" In reply, the murderer tauntingly screamed, " Here I am, tear me to pieces !" The terrible story has created intense excitement throughout the city. Tozzi and his son were condemned to death; his wife was sentenced to twenty years' imprisonment, and his daughter to ten years'.