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Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1604, 9 January 1886, Page 2

Mr James Buliff, pilot at Wairau for over 17 years, died on Thursday. ) The Spring Crack Road Board, following the example of the Wairau Boad &aard, declines to. contribute to the inainteuanbe of the Hospital and Charitable Aid, on the ground ' that the new Act is unfair to. landowners. ' -■I ;' -.>"=.' ' At the inquest held yesterday on the body of Henry Smith Legge, a clerk m 'the Deeds Registry Office, who died suddenly, it transpired that deceased's life was insured m the Mutual Assurance Society of Victoria for £321, on which 'the first premium had been paid on December 22 last. Several bottles that had contained chloral were found m the deceased's room and thrte smaller bottles m, his pocket.. The Coroner, m view, of theW facts, ordered a post mortem examination to be made, and adjourned the inquest to Saturday. A, New York church congregation recently made quite ■ a ceremony, of the burning of a mortgage deed which they had bean enabled to pay off. After the sermon, the pastor stepped down carrying within his- vest, a folded manuscript. ' This,' said he, 'is a mortgage. Until now I've never seen one; " Have you any .idea what the holders of this bond could do? you out of your church, but thank heaven, they can't do it now, for it is paid. 1 Hethen tore the • pa'pjsr into slips and crumpling the pieces into! a ball placed it pn a tray/ Lighting a small lamp,' he ignited' the ball, and 'while the congregation sang the doxology, the mortgage paper *of 6000 dollars was burned to ashes. :\Vhen the service ended,: the trustees assembled and held a second' cremation. . Upon the, same tray which held the ashes of' the mortgage the note was burned. Durjing the, service many, -of the older members were moved to tears. 'The ashes. are now enclosed m, a silver urn, whioh,. with the lamp,, will be enclosed m a -glass case, and hung m the parlour of the church. ...',,..', '.-. Accoriling'to the Advocate " Marton I is the happy possessor .of a> juvenile ■ artist iii thievery, who might take honours eyin m" London. This boy r , who is only eleven years old, is named Thomas Mytes. He has beea 'ehgatred occasionally afc a messenger at the Marton telegraph office, and people have been m the habit of giving him letters to post* He has been m the habit of opening' these letters m search of notes or 1 clieqiies, and,' after abstracting the money, tearing uo the letters and throwing them aWajv A day or two .ago ho opened a letter from Mr Nicholi contairiihg . a cheque for £2 8s 3d. This cheque be cashed at Mr Orchard's. Yesterday he got a letter to post from Mr Eirkbride, containing a cheque for £3, drawn m favour! of Mr Fowles, of Feilding. He opened the letter, took the cheque to the Bank of Australasia, and cashed it. He then went to Mr Nichol, and paid him £2 out of the, money obtained by means of Mr rvirk-. bride's cheque. There are a number of other stories current as to the boy's movements, but we have no definite infornaation regarding them. The boy, when collared, spun a most plauaibie story — ; a story, indeed, more Hke that of a grown up man than that of a boy i\ , years old. The boy will he brought up at the R.M. Court, Marton. In consequence of %he poisaning of ' a family Hear Adelaide from eating a tin of MftcobwhieV freaih herrinfcs, Professor.Rennie, Qoverpinent analyst, was instructed to sqbjeot the fish -to a careful analysis- He found, says the Syduey Evening News, comparatively large quantities of tin. about a quarter* of a grain of oxide of tin to about a tablespoonful of fish, and traces of lend. H^ was of the opinion that these compounds of tin might'have been formed] either by* 'carelessness m using the spirits of salt for solderinc the tin, or by the action of the contents of Ihel tin on the solder.