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Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1658, 15 March 1886, Page 2

Under the heading ]of " A Father's Fearful Eredicamttn.t, ' . ihe Sydney cor- r respondent of the Melbourne Telegraph tells how Miss Estick, aged twenty-one years, was burned te death m the sighu of her father, who was unable to render her any assistance, because to do so would have endangered the life of a fellow.beittg.U Miss'Estick; w,as engaged?co,oking at her father's place, near Orange (N;S.W.).when heir dress caught fire,; and, enveloped m flames, she ran outside tor help. At that moment her father was .engaged m drawing his fellow-work-man lip a well and, could not leave the windlass to go to her assistance, or the man would have been precipitated to' the' bottom. - ■ * ■■.■.-.].:■•'• ••'.■ \..'.-';r ;yr ; •; An old man named Edward Gibson, ; who was, of,, very eccentric habits has recently died at Leamington. For upwards of 16 yeirs he had lived and slept m a shoemaker's workshop, and, , as he was seen gathering m the early morning' pieces of coal near the railway station r and never spent more than half a crown a week on food, it was thought that he was m very indigent circumstances; and he' was the recipient ojEr gifts, from tjie ben©volenti Since his" death, •however, it has been found that he had . amassed a fortune of £10,000 the. claimants ;to which are two nephews residents m London; ' ! The Japanese d» not appear to have lost any of their faith m the efficacy 'of vaccination for smallpox. .^They have just enacted a very stringent' law on the subject, for, besides ordinary vaccination m the first year. of infancy, it provides for at least two. subsequentrevaccjnatiojns at intervals offrorri five to ; - seven years, so that; by the time a child has reached its fifteenth year it will have -been u vacpi- . nated three times. Besides, during epidemics of smallpox, local authorities have : power^ when they, deem it. necessary,: to, order, the vaccination , of all ! the vinbapi-*---tants of >her district, irrespective" fit the vaccination required by the law. V ■The horse used for shunting trucks 1 about the Foxton wharf and atatioa met 'with' -a nasty accident: on Tuesday. After being unhooked from a truck . the animal got foul of the handle of a lever of one of the points, and .received: a severo gash under the flank;: Afterwards the horse was thrown down -add' the^ wound stitched up, but it is expected) that it will be at least a couple of mouths before the animal is fife for work -again. :««OldFarinerj" the old grey horse for? merly used on the wharf, was sent to the railway paddocks at Aramoho,where it got .bogged, and had to he destroyed." One cannot help feeling astonished, that year, after year the dupes on a race-'' course should be to plentiful when/ the old tricks are played: On Wednesday one of the flash-jewellery gentlemen.drove np m a four-in-hand, and quickly attracted a crowd by selling watches ! at 158, and giving the purchaser £1 back With the watch. Tins was continued for some time, and then articles of smaller value followed, the same principle being adopted. At length there were 'more watches, "arid this time ihe money was put into a hat. sqraethiug extra when so many watches had been sold.' The watches were sold m due course, and so were the' chawbucons i*ho had been rushing about like mad to 'get them. When he had got all he could the bland- like individual quietly drove: off, and amidst the laughter of those m .the trick.— Herald. • ; : : The Pflll Mall, Gazette, m comment;' ing on the winding up of the Australian Frozen Meat Export Company m Melbourne, suggests that butchers who, dishonestly sell frozen mutton as English '■ or Scotch should be prosecuted by importers of Colonial meat nn'deV the Adulteration Acts. It thinks that would give the frozen meat a better chance. The Hobart correspondent of the' Launcetton .Eia/m'»ej' relates that "Blind Moohey, "wild 1 was removed from £ort Arthur amongst the r criminal lunatics wHsiik -that ; convict ; ostablishmeuF Iwas broken up, and who figures as j prominent character m Marcus Clarke's^ >york, «^is^at«ral^ife t y died at f .the Cfcav cades Lun^.Aay.luui oa J£eh JB,,. . '''