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Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1711, 18 May 1886, Page 4

Vienna papers have reference to the destitute condition of some of tbe students at tbe University m the city.' There is a committee for assisting poor students, and m one week lately this committee received 37 applications from students who were all m extreme distress. One case has attracted considerable public attention A student disappeared f om his lodgings, leaving a letter addressed to a friend, m which he stated that he was m vuch extreme misery that ho was force to put an end to his life. He had not been able to procure a morsel of warm food for eight days. The committee had assisted him se v eral times, but the number of oases urgently demanding help prevented them from continuing their assistance. A well known Bradford ajentleman of independent means named Amos Williams had a singular experience before the... Hey wood magistrates. He arrived m the town on a Monday, and on Tuesday he went into the Railway Hotel, where be ordered glasses for tbe assembled company. When the drink had been brought m he tendered a five pounrl note m pnyment, which the landlord pronounced to be a forgery, and he rather roughly put his strange customer outside. The man called at a shop a little further on and had a number of oysters, still tendering the £o note m payment. The oyster man ordered him oft', and went for a policemen. William repeated the same thing at several «*hops, always with a similar result. Ac last he was taken to the police station and the £5 note was examined when it was found to be a bona-Jkle Bank of England note, and William was discharged