GENERAL ITEMS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9146, 15 May 1908, Page 6

GENERAL ITEMS.

’ The following strange verdict was given by a jury , at Leeds Assizes : “We think, my lord, the prisoner is gnilty, bat that there is not sufficient evidence to convict him.” The man was discharged. During a run with the East Kent Hunt the fox was chased through one of the Dover streets and killed in a garden.

A widow admitted at the Bournemouth Bankruptcy Court that she had spent £7B on grass seed, £IOO on flowers and shrubs, and £42 on picture frames.

Vaudeville performers in Chicago have been prohibited from performing on the stage made up as either Mr Rockefeller or Mr Carnegie, as such representations have led to disorderly scenes.. James Ison, who was said to be worth £13,000, died in a workhouse infirmary where lie had been a paying guest for two years. The motor-omnibus was strongly condemned by the Mayor of Hammersmith. They had made the Broadway an inferno, he said, as dangerous to elderly people and children as a field of battle. »

The coffin, containing the body of Mrs Margaret Morgan, of New York, who weighed more'than SOOlba, had to be lowered from a room six storeys high, on a crane. Captain Freists, a professor at the military college, Lisbon, has died in an asylum, where he was undear treatment for mental breakdown caused by the assassinations of the King and Crown Prince of Portugal. Designs for a soldier’s corset, which will make fat soldiers slim and keep slim soldiers from getting too fat, have (been submitted to Surgeon-General O’Reilly, of the United States army, by a woman inventor.

Mathilda Gorlano, a girl who took poison at Bologna, left a letter ex* plaining that she had been driven to despair by her sweetheart’s confession that his curly hair was not natural, but that he had used curling tongs every morning. “Slippery Jack” was the name given a prisoner at the Tower Bridge Police Court. It was stated that he gained this nickname twenty years ago when he used to strip and grease himself, board vessels in the Thames, and rob the captain’d bertha.

Thomas Kirby, a private stationed at Wolseley Barracks, London, Ontario, has been informed that he is heir to a fortune of £35,00 left by his father, a Warwick stationer. The Marine Department has beenadvised by the Chief, Inspector of Fisheries, at present in Auckland, < that there are now 71 men engaged in picking oysters for the market. Thirty-six of these are at work ,on the Waineke beds, and the others are at the Bay of Islands. The oysters are coming to hand at a satisfactory rate, and he does not anticipate that complaints regarding slow delivery will be made after a week or two. He added that fully 90 per cent, of the public and the dealers in the North are satisfied with the way in which the Department is meeting the demand. At the last meeting of Auckland Education Board correspondence was read disclosing the fact that trouble exists regarding the removal of the ■-

Waimaua School buildings, the natives in that locality showing considerable opposition. The Hon. Mr Carroll, it was stated, had wired to the natives : “The Minister for Education has decided to remove the school, and if you wish for a school we will build cne when you have enough children. Let the pakeha have the present one. Be easy with the pakeha.'* The Chairman explained that'the Board’s foreman carpenter and three men were idle while the removal of the building was delayed, the stoppage involving a cost of £2 10s per day. The Chairman was authorised to take steps to accelerate the work of removing the school buildings at Waimana