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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3748, 7 February 1907, Page 4

Despatches received at Queenstown from Vandiver, Brit/sh Columbia, state that the conclirb n of hundreds of Hindu's who have lai d ;d there from India is deplorable in ihe extreme, and that large numbers of the unfortunate people, who have neilhor food, shelter, n r suitable clothing, have grown desperate, and assaults and robberies by them are of common occurence. The feelmg ;s growing that Hindoo immigration should be stopped. A Royal Commission has been called for to fix the reponsihilily for hiring by take repressntations to Biilish Columbia tl e Hindoos in search of work for which I hey arc wholly iinsiiited. A small hoy told a rather sensational story to the Christchurch police station a day or two ago, telling of a quarrel in which a man had been stabbed with a carving knife. Detective Ward went to the locality fa investigate, and found a domestic quarrel in progress. A woman had, in course of a difference ol opinion, used a table knife to enforce argument o , and had cut her husband very slightly on onehandand flic leg. Seeing that the quarrel had passed flic seriousstage the officer left, after frying in vain to effect a complete reconciliation. A startling accident teirified the audience at the Circus Busch, Berlin, on November 19th. In the pantomine “Rome” a‘charioteer executes a so-called “death ride,” in which he drives a chariot and four horses across a six-foot bridge, which suddenly collapses and compels the horses to execute a breathless plunge over the “abyss.” On the night in question the chariot hung upon the bridge, and both horses and driver, instead of falling with it and being saved by stage mechanism, were flung a distance of 20ft to the ground. The .driver and the animals miraculously escaped serious injury. The Timaru Post says : —A day or two ago a paragraph appeared in this paper stating that apples in an orchard at Kingsdown had been partly* baked by the excessive heat of the sun this week. On Saturday an Otaio farmer, who was in town, informed us that not only- were apples affected in this way, lor half of his undug potato crop had been spoilt in a similar way by ihe sun’s heat.