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Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 102, 2 April 1885, Page 4

A Singular Arrest. A singular arrest was made a few days ago m Melbourne by the detective police. A well-known elderly publican named Jeremiah O'Sullivan had a maintenance order for the payment of 10s a week to his wife for twelve months made against him m the Adelaide Police Court. Immediately after paying the first instalment for one week he went on board the steamer City of Adelaide bound to Melbourne, and being followed to the ship by his wife, he snapped his fingers at her, defying her to have him arrested. Unknown to her husband, and m disguise, Mrs O'Sullivan came on as a passenger m the same vessel, on its arrival m Melbourne she laid a complaint of desertion before the police magistrate, who issued a warrant for O'Sullivan's apprehens'on. His wife was m the act oi describing the appearance of the abscondef to a detective when the man himself put m an appearance at the police office, to explain, as he said, that as his wife was fond of going tc law she might be telegraphing ovei about him, and to inform the police that, if wanted, he would be found m Sydney, where he was going, O'Sullivan was intensely suprised al being confronted with his wife, and equally so at being taken into custody at her instance. The marines sent to Skye to over awe the crofers appear to have beer adapting themselves to the circum stances m a manner no less credii able than characteristic. Officer! and men alike have been impressec by the poverty and misery prevailing m the island, and have been getting up little subscriptions among them selves to relieve the more urgen cases of destitution.' Needless to sa] the crofters fully appreciate thii unexpected kindness, and the mar ines will leave the island with th< sincere regard of the poverty-strick en people The writer of " London Gossip ' m the Melbourne Argus has thi following:— " I must be allowed t( bear testimony to the general ex cellence of the mutton imported o late into this country from Nev Zealand. Much so-called * frozei meat Ms tough and tasteless, whei it is not altogether bad ; but thi New Zealand meat is seldom tough very well tasted, and full of gravy Many of the London butchers uo\ include it among their regular stock and are content to receive a mode rate price for it from those house holders who find it inconvenient t procure it from the regular agents Its popularity, however, is alread; causing a considerable rise m price A doctor at Indian JRiver Mich, with a practice of 1200 dollars pc year, has only got hold of 16 dollar cash m the last twenty months. Th rest has been taken m orders oi stores, saw-mills, lime-kilns, tailors undertakers, and well-diggers. On account of 87 dollars was taken ou m fiddling, and tbe fiddler coul< only play one tune, A German count, while stayin; with an English duke some year ago, was being shown round th estate by his host, when they cam across a house, to which the duk pointed, saying, " Ah, the tenant c that has been a thorn m my side fo raanv years ! He is opposed to m m politics, and he always vote against me. But I've cured him a last." "Indeed ! " said his visitoi " I see ; you turned him out." "Oh ho," said his noble host, " we don do that sort of thing m this country I simply lowered his rent a pound and so deprived him of his vote." The hot water cure for hard milk ing cows, as used m America, is a follows : — Before milking put two o three handfuls of hot water upoi each teat, as hot as the hand wi] bear. After giving the teats thorough soaking, wipe lightly witl a dry cloth, or strip with the ham until there is no danger of the wate dripping into the pail ; then milk a once. By this means a hard milke can be milked m half the usual time According to the Chinese, cask making has been known to them fo many thousand years. They labour ed, however, under this drawback They did not know how to give th final touch by which the lid is fas tened m; the only method tha struck them as feasible being t place a boy inside whilst the coope tightened the hoops and secured th lid m position. But how was th boy to get out ? This remained ai unsolved problem for three thou sand years. The Pall Mall Gazette, reviewinj " The Early Military Life of Gene ral Sir G. T. Napier, X.C.8., writ ten by himself, edited by his son General W. C. E. Napier, says :— " The French bullets found thei billets pretty freely m the member of the Napier family fighting oi Peninsular soil. George cominj limping up the hill out of the hand to-hand melee at Busaco, found hi brother Charles shot through th face, and yet another Napier wound cd — Captain Charles, of the navy whom m the early Crimean days w used to know familiarly as 'Charley and who was at Busaco as ai amateur. The naval cousin would m the face of remonstrances, ride white pony into action — a reckless ness which brought its penalty ii the shape of a bullet m the calf o the leg, ' and I was delighted at it the obstinate dog; he deserved i well ! ' is his relative's cheerful com ment. At Redinha, George had ; spent bullet flatten itself on his chest a little matter which he dismissc with the comment, 'a narrow es cape.'" PIANOFORTES and Org=.n! Tuned, Repaired, and Renuv «ted m Tone find Touch, m Towr and Country, \,y H. COLL LEU & CO., Music Sellers, Wuuganui.