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Pahiatua Star and Eketahuna Advertiser, Volume 1, Issue 17, 6 August 1886, Page 4

While a little girl was {flaying oil ono of the f h.;paths in Auckland she was attacked by a wandering goose, and bitten so severely in the face, that the doctor who was called ill had to put in three stitches to draw the wound together. The child, it is said, will probably he marked for life, as the lip is split in a slanting direction, from the side of the nose downwards.

Mr. Haggcn has disposed of the Tallintua Star to Mr A. Black. 'Hie jiajier has been under Mr Black's management since its commencement and it has been a most creditable product ion to him hr well as to a young place like l’ahiatUH. In Mr. Black's liand we are sure the Star cannot fail to be a great success, and it will do for Pabiatua what the Examiner has done for Woodville. It will be to the interest of the I’ahiatua jK-ople to support Mr. Black to the best of their ability in his new undertaking, and there is no doubt they will do so. We wish him and the Star all prosperity.—Examiner. Sureties for the release of the Maori prisoners were entered into to-day. The bondsmen for Te Whin are Messrs Wi l’ere, M. 11. H., and Hnnita Te Awaawa. Mean Pnka T# Ao, M. EL EL, and Nciha Tamati aretlie bondsmen for Titokowani. Te Whili exhibited great apathy over the efforts made for his release, and nt first refused) This afternoon, however, the pyrsuasion of his friends had the desired effect, and he npjH-iuled hi* signature to the bond The I pri ner» were shortly afterward* re-

leased. The mystery surrounding the disnp- : p arance of Eddie and Charles Klusmeyer, i twelw and seven years of age, and | Cii.ivies Kallerlmeh, ten years of age, has been ilisjv lied (says an American exj changei by a ghastly discovery in the i beautiful little city of Quincy, HL On the 4th September last, the thiec children suddenly disappeared from home an 1 their parents made search for them in vain, and then offered rewards lor their discovery. It was the general opinion that the children 1 al been stolen 1 river pit ites, and advertisements were inserted in cveral of the pnjiein south of

that place, but no trace of them was ever found. Lately a mail hauling sand for a foundry was loading a waggon on the river haul:, and on lifting his shovel was rrificd to find that he had cut the head from a human body. The man at once r< ported liiß discovery, and the coroner v. as notified. Upon further investigation the bodies of thri c children were exhumed trmn the sand hank, nnd were ing boy . It is thought the hoys were digging a cave in the sandbank, and it fell in and buried them alive.

A shocking ease of cruelty on a little child was investigated nt the Exter assizes ! on tin 21ft Mi ', when Fredrick Day. a -hoeinakor, and Mary Jane Day, his wife, were found guilty of manslaughter. It aw .ueil from tin-evidence that Mis Day was stepmother of the child, who was \ only/ 1 .r years of ago. and site carried on a tegular system of cruelty tow arils the with a leg stick* aWoWf’r.e holy, and n’-o on tin- head: she burned the child in different places, put it in a bucket of cold w .'i r ill an until msp during cold weath -r, seriously injure i its nose, and then upjdied ilt to the wound, until eventually the chil Idh L The judge in oent 'ncing the father to p mil servitude for five years, said lie had made a cruel attack upon ttie character of his first wife tooscapi punish-

ment, and was entitled to no consideration whatever. Ail Iressing the female . , . : i tid: “I do not know whether I did right in sanctioning the Withiliawnl of the charge of w ilful murder a -ainst you, because I cannot understand tour conduct except upon the theory that Vou wished to he relieved of your busbard's children for the sake of your own comfort and convenience, have illtreated several of them: you have suececded in killing one of them. The sentence upon vou is that you he kept in penal servitude for fifteen years.' The jirisoners were removed amid half supin **ed groans from the peopk in court. A singular use was made of photographv by means of the electric light near Paris "recently. Some time ago several miners were entombed by a heavy fall ol earth near Paris. Their fellow laborer) dug and dug with almost superhuinaii etb'rts t" extricate them : but at the cn ot the week, when all hope of rescuing

any of them alive had died away, it was found, after a survey of the situation, that nearly two months must ela|)se before the poor 1 1 ‘ ■ leached. The women of the district, however, refused tube comforted, and those who have ielative* in the mine w hich had thus collapKinl insinteil ujx‘ii wvary work being pushed forward as i ipidly as jsissible. It struck h line s it Utist. who was an amateur photographer, that it would he possible to obtain a picture of the actual RjHit where the uie;i were buriedA boring was therefore made, and n i small camera placed at the end of a , series of steel rods. In the camera was a 1 dry plate, und nea- it nil apparatus for j giving out electric light. The camera was pushed through th • opening, the 1 electric light flashed on, end the plate exposed. On being enlaiged it gnve a •heat)fully pathetic picture of the scene in the heart of the mine, showing that ooch of the suffi-ri rs --as iliii !. Th* is-pular feeling at once q iieted down, and WHS nt once succeeded bv the resignation which providentially *o the* us when wc known tlw wor*i.