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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 119, 20 May 1881, Page 2

1 A; bank rapt 'cy We, which rejjenil^ qropfred . up' in the Manawatu District is * proving somewhat lively for the creditors who* proved" in it. A debt of £200 was/ incurred by the estate through wrangling over several points which cropped up in in incidental manner, and at the assets are noit sufficient to meet these:, claims^ which; mnß*} !; as a matter of course, be paid in full, the creditors who prqved thete claims have been' oal led ■pan to ' cpnfcrjbote to tfa extent of £7 'each; 'What WjOiild.be the result if 'Bprne of thehvwer^ to Ala; declarations of Insoltency in conae-i qnence ? • - r :- iThfc Hono' GrM.: Waterhon«6 made u »' mistake on the 10th inst. 1 ; which might have cost htmihift life. I He bad been in the habit (|ayg the Post) of taking a harmless medicine for some dajs, and when he got up he omitted not to apply to the usual (as he tbought) bottle. His horror may ba easily imagined when he discovered just after he bad swallowed tjro )argf>noonfulß a tfi|£!lhe medicinw taafoil^riiV He lik« the Irisbmtn.^M Vas \^ % fll* !J ih*tireTy, 1 '»"'and rushed to & chemist fa^hop, near by, where he explained his predicament, Wd obtained a strong emetic- Fortunately (his was cffecII was reading over a list of fypographical errors in an old serial the other day (says a writer in Vanity Fair). One wab an announcement in aJßipon paper, where a line oCa report of a publio meeting found its way in among the birthi,,to. this effect— " Od the 3rd instant, at^EllsiDgtob, the; wife of tir ;Terry, hi %% son, -he 1 spoke Indistinctly, but was understood to say that on the 6th, ins.t ,. atißridgate, the wife of Mr Joseph Lbnsd'ale, of a daughter." There was anotbejr from a Glasgow paper., ." Last Saturday a poor woman was safely delivered of one sergeant, two corporals, and thirteen rank and file." A third came home to my own j sueceptibilitles. A paseage in the Psalms, "Princes having persecuted me without a pause," was m^-printed, " Printers having peraeoated, f ,|!ie.'^;' - ••' ■ i ';..> ,i--' b - ;.. ■■■ '-C--^-L ) Ten million tons of debris are. annually washed from the hills by the 4000 miners; enfeagedjifl • hjrdr|ujiq fnlnHsg in j Galif ortithijj tojhe^tu4of wS •grieultuiral lands aiM t«P Jex s tr^am? l; the, owoers ot which sre uoiting to mining altogether.

London consumes 450,000 tons of bread annually ; value, at 7d the quartern loaf, #21,875 daily, and £7,320,000 yearly. . An/the family of a very orthodox.divine were gravely diacnsßing why tbe baby was ao naughty, a boy of twelve, who had just commenced to study the steam engine as well as the catechism, asked, "Papa, a 8 we all inherit the sin of Adam, and the baby is •uch a little fellow, is there not a greater pressure of sin to tbe square inch in the taby than in any of the rest of us?" Sheik Mograbin, an Egyptian dignitary, has been condemned to death for murdering ana plundering rich ladies, whom he enticed by pretending to cure the most difficult diseases. Poor patients he sent away unharmed with some specific, while those wearing jewellery and costly dresses he made away with. He confessed to 18 such crimes. Whole villages in Poseu, Prussia Proper, and Schelswig are represented as deserted, the residents emigrating to America. The Government is doing nil iv iis rnwer to check immigration agents from the United States, but in vain. In commenting upon the recent confession of Turkish sf rvants that they murdered the lat« Sultan Abdul Aziz, a contemporary gays :— The Sultan Abdul, after hi* deposition five years ago, was sent from the D^lmabalade Palace across the Bcsphoius. In this confinement he seemed plunged info •uch depths of melancholy that the people of bis household deemed it expedient to remove all weapons beyond his reach. Early on a Sunday morniDg in May, 1876, the Sul(an was found dead, lying half way across the eofa, with his feet on the floor in a great pool of blood. ■ Nineteen physicians of different nationalities were at once summoned. The direction and nature of the wounds, as well as tbe instrument which was said to have produced them caused them to arrive at the conclusion that the case was one of suicide. Although the opinion was general at the time that Abdul Aziz had been secretly made away with, it is only now ascertained for certain by tfc£e confession of the servants at the Sultan's' Palace at Constantinople that it was they who had murdered the Sultan by first suffocating him, and then opening his veins.