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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3762, 6 April 1907, Page 3

Watchorn Stiles and Co. can supply you with linoleums, floorcloths, carpets hearthrugs and all house furnishing at lowest town prices.* Government has decided that no postal packet addressed to the following shall be either registered, forwarded, or delivered : —To any of the Freeman and Wallace advertisers. A Maori girl named Hinekire te Kura, daughter of a Hawke’s Bay chief, was drowned in the Ruamahanga River, Wairarapa, whilst bathing on Thursday. Attempts were made to save her, but were unsuccessful. The body was recovered later. To show how speedy a means of communication the Pacific cable is, the Dunedin Star mentions that a local firm sent a cablegram to London from the Dunedin office at 2.52 p.m. The reply was received at 4.30 p.m.—-one hour and thirty-eight minutes only being occupied in the transmission to and from London. The message was sent in the ordinary way, and no special means taken to accelerate its despatch. A Lubeck (German) tradesman named Hugo Devel is so unhappily married that he desires to escape from his matrimonial miseries by being hanged in place of a murderer now wanted by the police. A murder was committed at Hamburg recently by a man named Holz, who escaped. Devel gave himself up to the police with the assurance that he was Holz, whom he resembled closely. When investigations revealed his deception he stated that he preferred being hanged to living any longer with his wife. The comet, concerning which a some-what startling prediction was made by Professor Matteuci, of the Mount Vesuvius Observatory, on February 24th, has not yet appeared among the stars visible from Australian observatories. Mr Baracchi, of Melbourne, when questioned on the subject last week, stated that he had no tidings whatever of the comet. If it had been coming he and the newspapers would have heard more about it. “It is all nonsense,” added Mr Baracchi; ‘ ‘ utter nonsense.” A pleasing incident took place at the Port Chalmers Police Court a few days ago, at the conclusion of the proceedings against a couple of stowaways on the steamer Waimate, on the voyage from London to New Zealand (says the Otago Daily Times). In appreciation of their industry and good .conduct during the passage from London, the officers of the vessel collected a sum of money to give the young fellows a start, and this was divided between them before they left the Court.