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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1073, 13 May 1882, Page 2

After lingering in intense agony for nine days Mrs Mary Ann Chowles, who was injured in the collision at Hornsey Station, has died in the Royal Free Hospital Gray’s-inn-road.

Immediately after the discovery of the tragical occurrence at Blayney on the nigiit of G-ood Friday, when young Fitzgerald lost hie life by being slabbed through the heart, the police and others (says the Carcoa Ckrontrie) busied themselves searching for the weapon with which the deed has been committed. They searched the person of the supposed murderer, who lay in a half stupid state covered with blood on a sofa in the dining-room, but in vain, they searched around the pool of blood under the verandah which marked the spot where the terrible crime had been consummated, but no trace of the weapon could be discovered ; when a thoroughbred retriever belonging to Mr J. A. Wharrie appeared to understand what was wanted, and creeping underneath the sofa upon which the suspected man was lying, emerged therefrom with the blood-stained knife in its mouth, and delivered it to its master.

The celebrated spectacular dramas—“ New Babylon,” and “The World,” which have been exciting playgoers in Melbourne, Sydney, and Adelaide, for some time past, are to be brought to New Zealand at an early date by their proprietor, Mr Bland Holt, son of Mr Clarence Holt, of early fame in New Zealand theatrical circles—the days when the Princess, in Dunedin, was a theatre by night and a 40stalled stable by day. “ The World ”is now being played in Sydney to the largest business ever done by any company—dramatic, musical, operatic, or otherwise. Mr Holt brings with him all the munificent scenery, and mechanical effects, &.c, which have served to make them successes in Australia, also an entirely new oompany and ballet of 30 persons. Nothing of the kind had ever been seen previously to their production by Mr Holt in Australia, and of course will be entirely new to New Zealanders, save those who may have done the Melbourne Exhibition and Cup seasons, when they would have had the opportunity of witnessing both dramas.

The Catholic church of Rapperschwyl, in the canton of St. Gall, one of the most ancient and Jinteresting ecclesiastical edifices in Switzerland, built by Rudolph of Hapsburg in the 13th century, has been burnt down. Mr Cunningham, an Englishman, and four Chamounix guides, after making a six days' tour round Mount Blanc by Courmayeur and the Col de Geant, succeeded in reaching the summit of the mountain. Only once before has the ascent of Mont Blanc been accomplished at this season. A meeting of ladies, held for the purpose of asserting woman’s rights and denouncing the tyrant man, was once completely upset by the appearance in the room of a mouse. Last evening a rat made its appearance in one of our churches, and for a short time completely diverted the attention of the congregation from the service. The little creature ran quickly down the aisle and suddenly turned into a pew occupied by a bevy of young ladies, whose consternation at such an intrusion may well be imagined. The rat did not appear again, but the seatholders in that pew looked uncomfortable for the rest of the evening. — N.Z. Times.

Thera was a good story detailed the other day touching the source of the Aurora Australis. It is a reflected light, and so is a fire, so far as the Auckland larrikins are concerned* It appears that Superintendent Hughes and the Fire Brigade are much harrassed by fira alarms. So it would appear is the City Corporation who have to pay for them. The members of the Fire Brigade are paid a shilling an hour for every time they are “ rung ” to a fire, time counting from the al.nrra to the return to the brigade station in Albert Street. The superintendent makes the usual returns, and with the amount due from week to week. On the first night of the Aurora the brigade were at their posts, haring been summoned by the fire bells as usual. The amount due appeared in the superintendent's return. He handed it in to the city official in the ordinary way. “ What is this for?” said the official, pointing to the date of the Aurora. “ For the alarm,” said the fireman. “Oh dear no,” said the city functionary, “ we can’t allow that ; it is out of the district!”— New Zealand Herald.