Indiarubber Men.

Manawatu Herald, 24 January 1895, Page 2

Indiarubber Men.

I • Paris street assassins have no wish to be behindhand in the adoption of modern and scientific improvements. The old-fashioned way of stunning the belated wayfarer with a blow on the head from an iron bar had its decided disadvantages. A much more effective and sure weapon has recently become fashionable. It consists in a thickish piece of indiarubber tubing, a smash from which, while depriving the victim of consciousness, inflicts no outward wound, and is almost inaudible. The new instrument has been utilised for a month or so by a band of ruffians, who have terrorised the district of Montmarte. Their modus operandi was to have their victim accosted by a female accomplice, and then sneaking up behind him to hit him over the head, afterwards relieving him of all his valuables. By one of these women they have been denounced to the police, and six of the band, who called themselves the indiarnbber men, have been captured,

Floods In Australia; • -.. •;.-• ~- tt hair been raining for a week, past in Sydney, the downpour aM— ■ times being particularly heavy. The northern rivers have overflowed |heir banks, and the country^ betWee^" J KeiS|M»y ' "aa3l"'" : ?Bifc IttaCquarie is under water. •■ , , ,c. •< At the former place five inches of rain, and at the latter ten inches . have fallen since Friday lasfe. Oftifig t6 the floods l^ypn'd"|feVfr castle, railway communicaitioh Jmw! Queensland is interrupted. j Heavy easterly gales are raging along the coast, and are accompanied by exceptionally heavy .warn , It is feared in the Newcastle tti«- ; trist that there will be a itepetifcioli , of the floods of 1898. The northern rivers are rising with alarming rapidity, and. boats are being prepared in expectation, _oj . heavy floods. *,• * Most of the farms in the West Maitland District ate already inundated. — Press Association. ■ „:;•;, <