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Ohinemuri Gazette, Volume XXII, Issue 2788, 10 May 1911, Page 2

The fifth annual show under the auspices of the Waikato Winter Show Association is to be held at Hamilton from June 6th to June 10th. A very comprehensive schedule has been prepared, and entries will be received this week by the secretary, Mr Arthur J. Smith, of Hamilton.

A new Roman Catholic Church is to be erected almost immediately at East Hamilton. The new building will be a large and handsome structure involving an expenditure of over The sum of ,£2OOO has already been subscribed by the parishioners, and no time will be lost in carrying out the construction oi the new church.

The ■" long arm of p the law" is no empty phrase. At the Christchurch Police Station there is a circular issued by the Police Department of the City of New York, setting out the description of four Italians, and showing photographs of three of them. The four, three men "and a woman, are wanted in connection with the kidnapping of two other Italians from their residences in Brooklyn, New York, on November 10, 1910. If the persons are' located, the authorities are requested to arrest and hold them, at the same time notifying,the Police Commissioner of New York, so that the proper steps may be taken.

A remarkable deathbed confession has been made at Budapest by an old man named Schmidt, who died in a hospital there recently. Schmidt, who had been a circus clown, related that forty years ago he took an engagement with a travelling circus. There he made the acquaintance of a tight-rope dancer, and the two soon came engaged to be married. One day the girl informed him that she did not love him and that she intended to marry someone else. Schmidt pleaded with her in vain, and then his love turned to hatred. He cut the tight-rope, and when the dancer began her performance that evening the rope broke almost immediately. The girl tell from a great height and was instantly killed. At the time no one realised that her death had been deliberately planned, and Schmidt's secret was not divulged until he lay dying in the hospital. The police have found that a woman was killed during a circus performance 40 years ago, exactly as the ex-clown described.