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Motueka Star, Volume IV, Issue 191, 19 June 1903, Page 4

A startling catalogue of complaints against a Tottenham man is presented by a young nurse who was called in to attend his wife. He began by trying to kiss the nurse, they next met be picked her up and dropped her on the floor. At the end of the evening, when the nurse - retired to her -room, the bed clothes flew out tbi'ough the doorway, being attached to pieces of string. The man wound xip the*day’s entertainment by squirting sodawatex* from a siphon over the nurse as she emerged from the room in pursuit of the fleeting bedclothes. She left the house at once, and.took out a summons.

Seax-ching for “copy” the other day, a member of the Dunedin Star staff persuaded a leading firm of undertaker's to tell him for publication what disinfectant it is they use when coffin - mg the corpse of a person who has died from an infectious disease. They reply was that they use a dilution of foi'inalin for spraying the room, and the clothing and everything necessary to be handled. The chief merits of formalin are : First, its efficacy, since when using it the undertakers' have no fear of contagion, however malignant the disease ; second, its cheapness, 2s buying a quart of the dilution ; third, its peculiar inoffensiveness, in that it can be sprinkled' upon the finest fabrics without destroying their colour's. The public are indebted to the firm referred ,to (who ask that their names be not mentioned), for information as to this valuable gei'iiiioide. The Unlucky Boy is always getting ‘ his fingers burnt, his hand cut or his shoulder sprained, His parents should keep a bottle of Chamberlain s Pain Balm in the house, This is a liniment of superior merit, One application gives relief, Try it, A, Manoy sells it, J

The British aristocracy fur*nishes a ■very steady supply of utterly squalid scandals. But even it will not easily beat the record of the divorsed Countess Russell, who married a coachman named Brown under the impi'ession that the plebeian .monster was a son of the Emperor of Austria. Small romantic nurse girls and such like do fall into traps of that sort, but the ex-coun-tess would be naturally supposed to know tne earmarks of emperors and otr.er small deer better than that. Brown, the coachman doesn’t seem even to have built up a plausible tale by assuming the style of. a real prince whose dignity could bear* looking up in Vi. book of refex*ence. He called himself Jobson, Prince of Greece, or Jook d’ Moses or something about equally unconvincing.—Sydney Bulletin. Dogs have on sevei'al occasions been instt umentalin saving the lives, of their owners and others,.and in awakening them in cases when a fii'e has oecuri'ed. An instance of this sort recently happened at Barn bury,. when William Buckley and Thomas Manning were sleeping in some -stables. On this qci casion Manning was awoke by his little j <3.o g patting him on the nose with its ; (I paw. Manning, however, in the enf rleavonr to save himself, foi-got all jabout his companion or the dog that |had come to his succour, for he left jthem both to. be burned to deatb‘Manning’s excuse, when taxed by the fcoroner with his heartlessness at the inquest on Buckley’s remains, was that he must have beeu dazed. The jury, however, added to their verdict of ac- ) cidental death a censure of Manning’s % conduct.

A correspondent of the Akaroa Mail wx-ites to that paper that she lias a cat that has recently developed wonderful intellectual powers. It appears that the cosiest place she could find for hexkittens was one of the washing tubs, which is a place of security six days out of the seven. The first washing day she was ruthlessly ejected, but. ever since she has removed-her three kittens the night before washing rtav, returning them to theii' favourite resort immediately that particular form of do mestic trouble had been accomplished. An incident, showing the feeling against the recent strikers, is xecoi-ded by the Age. Two Herculean men, who had not had much experience in driving locomotives, ran a train on the Essendon line on the Monday after the strike began. An incident that attracted considerable attention occurred just as the train they were' driving ran into the platform at Flinders Street. The passengers were stieamiog up the pathway towax-ds the exit as a particularly well-dressed young lady made hexway towards the engine. She was attired in a neatly-fitting coat and skirt, and it was noticeable that she wore a pair of white kid gloves.- Advancing to the side of the engine she looked in, and catching the eye of the di'iver re-mai-ked, “Will you shake hands with me, Mr Driver ?” The driver shut off the steam that was hissing out of the cylinder, and with a regretful look at his black hands replied, “I don’t think Id bettex, I’d spoil your gloves, miss.” “Never mind the gloves,” came the answer. “I want to shake hands with you men.” The driver rubbed his hands with a piece of cotton waste, and taking the white gloved hand in his grimy paw thanked the young lady for her sympathy. “And your friend” she quex-ied. The fireman came forward, and x-aising nis hat also took in his black hand the neatly gloved finger of his lady interrogator. Referring to Mr Ritchie’s Budget speech in the House of Commons, Mr H. W . Lucy, in the Sydney Morning Herald writes : “The blackest shadow on the pi'ospect is that thex-e is no hope of reduction of the normal expenditure On the contrary, every year it incx-eases. At the close of a titanic struggle that has added ,£165,000,000 to the national debt, wiping out the saving of 50 years, the coming financial year shows a permanent addition to the noi'mal expenditure of close upon .£10,000,000 Thei'e f are divers opinions of the measure of blessing that has occurred to the country under a Unionist Government. Thex-e is none as to its cost, A simple statement based on the Chancellor of the Exchequer’s figures set forth before the Hoxise will afford food for cheerful reflection by the taxpayer. In 1886, when Lord Salisbury came into power after the rout of the Liberals on the Home Rule question the national expenditure amounted to a trifle over .£83,000,000. This year the estimated expenditure is .£144,735,000—an in-ei-ease of <£61,918,000. The taxpayex* can figure for himself where we shall be at the close of anothex 18 years under the same blessed dispensation.”