GENERAL NEWS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9334, 2 January 1909, Page 7

GENERAL NEWS.

r *3ywt ? . t. u p A t, iww*—*—-y' ■■«-■"—. ’. A girl from a Village not far 5 ' iron ■Glasgow had gone to London as i ■■ general servant.’ -ishe wars awai some six mouths, when she Jreturnec home, ; add.'pf course, she desired t< “show off"' sb much as possible. A lighting : fr6tn the train, she acl dressed the 'porter in her vorj highest flown |Engiish: ‘‘Porter,’ dt you knew where I can get a cnh tc ounvey my luggage home?” “Oh ‘ , yer mjther’f here wi’ the barrow.” ' - * I‘em from English papers Mrs Garrett Anderson, the, -mayor \A. Aldebca-gh, attended the parish church >n State on Sunday, accompanied ny the members' of the corporati i. The route was liSedby ooastguarc caou, lifeboatmen. Territorials, aiA council officials. The mayor, wea. ng. the rod robon and mayoral chaJ > and a black bouuet, carried the sL. -»r raaae. On the return to the bor worship, standing on the Vt-ps, expressed her warm thanks to all those- who had honoured her by attending the service with her. .“Tag Da:-.” an innovation from the Unite 5 States, was observed in Toronto on November I4th, where over £K was raised in 12 hours for a j? V-’ gymnasium and swimming -•< • Over 30,CG0 ladies took part i ’-'ampaign, which 'begun as eai -, as'6 o’clock, and hardly an adul nude in the city, whether resident- visitor, escaped, the Tag at pricaL* .cujQgmg from a halfpenny-to & pon M, -V7(iile the results were very suctiyf'Vt,?; t yet many people .condemn aa likely to aabjacfc ladies takimr part in it-, to “tr-' Uion t sad rebuffs. '-v message to the New, ’ 'hcoe states thnl iligoeh- do ■Fla l.htvr ', woo bad bees accused of W thetfv by Governor M'agoou, stole £3 ( i,'oOb from thq Treasury for his daughter, having 'placed the money saf (A•* wh'fira the Gsw-ranicut_eauuot receiver it". - De'la TbriG. in 'is” sai-J, has an incurable .dancer of the stomach, and does not cars .what the, resalt of his act may be, having but, a short time to live. Lately he lost; all bL capital and. preferred to. eteah froisi the Treasury rather than leave,

his family ra poverty. It <s sara 1,7 tinao some inquiry was mac,‘e iuic the *>fiic*eaoy of oar polity forceps a preventive of crime. It should at least be able to ikeop susjvfts tinder strict Scivailiaace, am;-;./ ■■■skc the Dominion «n bacomioPj&Ui* place for criminals who it a banting ground; Recent o#prr6nces in Wellington show that sci|£v very undesirable characters there, and it is not apprising to learn that residents are ai/uniig themselves,'and that all local, s .-.jpHes of revolvers have been ex-' h.;V, sted. The stale of .rsffairs is not c; i i itable to the police force or do-f.-j V:ivos. '-■■ : Mr Roy Lang, of Lang and Go,, auctioneers, had an exciting exwith a bull at a clearing sale at North Creek, near Ballina i (New South Wales), last week. When Lang, was harnessing his horses to a buggy in a paddock he noticed two bolls fighting. One of the bolls broke away from its antagonist and got to the opposite side of the buggy. The other aggressive animal made a charge to reach his rival. The buggy stood between them, and the bull got tangled in the shafts between the horses and the vehicle, smashing the buggy and releasing the horses. Lang, who had climbed into the vehicle to get ont of the road, jumped down on the opposite side. As he did so the other bull, arriving on the scene, lifted him' into the air and damped him heavily to the ground. A number of fmen by this time put in an appearance and saved the situation, Lang came ont of his critical position with torn clothes and a severe pulsing. The vehicle was badly dam ged. Theodore Beckford, of Alton, came back from Klondyke, on October 25th, with a millions dollars in gold. After a silence of 10 years had led his relatives to believe that he was dead, he suddenly reappeared in Alton, and announced that he was a wealthy man. As soon as he arrived, word was sent to all the relatives, and in a short time there was a joyful reunion. To a reporter Beckford said he had dug a million out of the mines, if not, more. “On September 12th, 1908,” he asid, “I found nuggets. With the help of my partners I sank a shaft 180 ft and struck a vein of the richest gold ore in the district. My share of the mice’s output in three years has been a million. ” Beckford says he did not write to his sisters because he was'so interested in gold that he forgot everything until after he had “dug himself wealthy,” when he thought he would return and visit them. He brought home a large quantity of nuggets.

Waikato papers report extraordinary conduct on the part of a young girl named Florence Marks. She was charged at the Hamilton Police Court last week with stealing three blouses, the property of Thos. Martin, of Hamilton, value 32s 6d, a bicycle, the property of. Edwin Hammond, value £l3, and a purse containing £7, money belonging to Miss Anbin, of Tauwhare. It appears fmm the evidence of Sergeant Hastie that accused went to board with a Mrs Ellis, of Hamilton, on November 30th. Along .with Mrs Ellis she went, out shopping, and together they called at Mr Martin’s shop. On the following Monday the girl made a return visit to the establishment, and in Mrs Ellis’ name asked for three blouses, which she took away, and retaining one left the others behind. She then went to Mr' Hammond’s cycle store and borrowed a bicycle’ saying she would require it for an hour and a half, as she wanted to ride ont to Ruakura. She took the cycle away and sold it to a Miss Beckett for £3. At the boarding-house at Tauwhare, where she stayed, she stole £7 belonging to Miss Aubin, who had collected the money for a treat for the children at the school where she taught. Not content with this, accused to Auckland, cut off her hair, and for some time posed Jas a boy. The girl’s father, who was present from Waihi, could not account for the strange actions of his daughter. He had Jnever had more than the ordinary parental trouble with her until this affair. The accused was sent to the Door of Hope Home, Auckland,