GENERAL NEWS.
In Paris it has suddenly occurred to the police that all these spiritual people are impostors, and that there are laws against impostures aimed at people’s pockets. Herr Camphauseu, the Prussian Chancellor of the Exchequer, finds himself in possession of a surplus of about a million sterling. The revenue for 1871 he had estimated at £31,754,885, but the completed accounts show that nearly thirty-six millions have been received. In 1872, the debt of Prussia proper was £45,031,863 ; but when the liabilities of the annexed provinces (Hanover, Hesse-Cassel, Nassau, Schleswig-Holstein, Hamburg, and Fxankfm-t-on-the-Maine) are added, a total of £52,373,450 is reached. The annual meeting of the working-men’s Lord’s Day Best Association was held in Exeter Hall lately—Earl Shaftesbury presiding. The report stated that petitions in opposition to Mr. Taylor’s unsuccessful motion last session, for opening museums on Sundays, had been signed by 130,000 persons. The income of the year was £1032, against expenditure £675. The Rev. Donald Fraser, in the course of a vigorous address, said without Christian doctrine and institutions there could bo no spirit of Christianity in the nation. Merely to abstain from physical toil on the Sabbath was not to carry out the great end of man’s existence ; but cessation from labor was necessary in order to allow of the religious observance of the Lord’s Day. One of the strangest stories ever heard, even in a police court, was narrated on Monday before the magistrates at Great Budworth, near Northwich. Two servant girls, one fourteen and the other seventeen years old, were charged with attempting to murder two children of their employer, a farmer named Stubbs. One of the children is an infant seven weeks old, and the other a girl aged two years. The younger of the prisoners, named Hankey, was seen a few days ago by one of Mr. Stubbs’s children to give the little girl what he described as some “ blue soap toffy and, as it was suspected that something injurious had been administered to the baby, Hankey was questioned. The girl admitted, with a fiendlike unconcern, that she had given the little creature sulphate of copper, thinking that, “ if she could poison baby she would not have so much to do in the summer,” and that “ if she could poison Hannah she would having nothing to do.” The other prisoner, named Wilkinson, was privy to Hankey’s design, and after the discovery she was hoard to rebuke Hankey for her rashness in prosecuting her plans “ before the little boy,” and to ask her reproachfully, “Havn’t I told you before ?” Both girls were committed for trial at the Chester assizes.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4468, 15 July 1875, Page 3
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436GENERAL NEWS. New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4468, 15 July 1875, Page 3
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