COLLARED : A TRAGEDY

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 12 June 1914, Page 7

COLLARED : A TRAGEDY

"Pis night. Across the bedroom floor A frenzied mortal paces ; His manly features sullied o'er With horrible grimaces. The brand of Cain is in his eye, The cold sweat on his forehead ; His ainwfco do the thing or die, His language terse and horrid. For, see a foeman grips his throat ! Each hard-strained vein and muscle , Stands out as though it would dej note , The vigour of the tussle. He yields .' Yet—no ! One last swift i try Ere strength is all expended, , A wrench —an oath—a grunt—a sigh, i The tragedy is ended. For there upon the bedroom rug He bought for half a dollar, Lirs limp and torn, with twist and ; tu~, j His last new stand-up collar.

A consignment of a new fruit has been received at Covent Garden. Tt is called Jamra, and both in shape and size is like an ordinary pear, but is blood-red in colour. Specimens were sold at one guinea each.

The Russian frontier police have again exhibited their peculiarities in an attack on a servant girl of the German village of 'Mattlnnken. The girl wanted to attend her sister's funeral, and on the way crossed the Russian frontier by passing .along the right bank of the Vistula without a passport. She was shot dead by frontier police, ami sabre mars were also found on her body. 1898