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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3749, 9 February 1907, Page 3

The ftrhnd Jury threw out the bill charging Wm. O’Brien and Palmer Spry, of the Wellington Fire Brigade, with manslaughter of Amy Kensington. It seems to us that humanity ■has something to gain by encouraging diligence and a determination to give a fair day’s work for a fair day’s wage, instead of scheming merely to secure the largest amount of pay for the smallest possible amount ol work. —Manawatu “ Times.”

A gentleman of no small experience in agricultural affairs assures the Oamaru “ Mail ’’that the yield of wheat over the whole Canterbury proviuce will exceed 30 bushels to the acre, as there are some very fine crops to be found here and there. The oats are much poorer and will probably average little more than the wheat. At the Wellington Supreme Court, the other day, John Burke was found guilty of a criminal assault on a girl seven years of age, and was sentenced to seven years’ penal servitude, and ordered to receive two floggings of twenty-five lashes. His Honour said no case had ever been before him in which such brutal conduct by man to child, whose innocence and imbecility should have been her protection, had been so clearly proved. The Timaru “Herald” says:— During the holidays Miss Crowley, a school teacher formerly in Waimate, Whs on a visit to friends in Waimate, when she suddenly took ill and had to be removed to the hospital. Her condition was so serious that her two sisters were telegraphed for to Christchurch. The train had left, so they engaged a motor car for the iourney. They were seated in it when it was recollected that the Raugitata Bridge was down. A special train was then engaged, at a cost of £s3* and in this the journey was made. On arrival the patient denied being so ill, and advised her sisters to go to the hotel and lie down. They had barely done so when a messenger arrived for them, and before they could get back to the hospital their sister was dead- The whole affair caused somewhat of a sensation in the township, and great sympathy was felt for the deceased’s sisters. In cases of dropsy and gout WOLFE’S SCHNAPPS is recom- . mended>