Here and There.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7725, 30 January 1905, Page 2

Here and There.

A telegram from Rome states that a longstanding feud between two prominent families resident at Bari. of the names of Pellegrini and Gmlluse, ended in a frightful tragedy. Hatred between thein arose from the betrayal, it is alleged, of Gialluse's daughter by Dr. Pellegrini, who refused to marry the girl. From the day that the Turin Appeal Court quashed the decision of tho Uari .Court condemning Dr. Pellegrini to pay a heavy indemnity to the girl the two families became sworn and deadly enemies. The doctor, accompanied by his three brothers, was returning home, when they met tho whole of the (Jiullusc family."" Few words were wasted. Knives and revolvers were ut once whipped out, and a desperate fight was soon raging. Oialluse was shot dead by Dr. Pellegrini, who, a second afterwards, Was stabbed to death by the girl whom he is stated to have betrayed. The young woman herself received three dagger wounds from the doctor's brothers, who were afterwards literally transfixed by the daggers of the other members of the Gialluse i'amily, (i ialluse's wife and son subsequently succumbed to their injuries, and the throe brothers Pellegrini are in a hopeless condition. The sanguinary encounter only lasted five minutes. Several policemen nnd a number of bystanders witnessed the tragedy, but were unnble to interfere.

A strange discovery is reported from Perpignan, Franco. Some working "men were repairing a room in a house for a new tenant, and in doing so had to remove an old carved chair which had been fixed to the wall, Behind tho chair thov found painted on the wall a picture of the devil, and their curiosity being aroused the men began sounding the bricks. One of them accidentally hit a concealed spring, where some brickwork fell away, nnd an iron door behind it swung open, und disclosed a heavy safe built into the wall, and containing a large sum of money in bank notes and" gold. Hesides the money there was n will signed by a former occupant of the house, an eccentric man named Monier. This will explained that as all his relatives had quarrelled with him ho had decided to hide his money Olid leave directions that it should (xcome the property of whatever person should find it. It is now recollected.ihat on tho death of Monicr, who had passed for a wry wealthy person, much sensation was caused in the district by the state of poverty in which he had died. His relatives ftnd his lawyers hunted high and low, but could find no trace of the money he was known to havp possessed. It is now supposed that he realised fhe whole of hifg estate bofore his death, and concealed fhe cash tp gratify his desire to disappoint his friendg and relatives, whom Jiehafi npvpr ceased to accuse of Wishing that he would die in order ■that they might money.

Ihe city of Los Angeles, California, has set apart about 3000 acres of bush land, called Griffith Park, to bo used not as a mere pleasure park but as a commercial venture. It is intended on behalf of (he town to plant an enormous number of forest trees, and by this means to provide a healthy "lung" for the city, while investing capital n t a profitable interest. It is calculated that in fifty years the timber will be worth ten times the capital which has been expended in planting it. When tho timber has all been cut away it will then be possible to set the land apart for uso us a park, a few of tho bigger trees lieing returned for ornamental purposes. The id™ seems to be commercially sound, and as it Js considered that before the day comes for the sale of the trees the city will have grown to surround the forest,'the benefits from the point of i view of the public health will be considerable.

In this age of scathing attacks on the working man and fashionable society, it is refreshing to read evidence to the contrary, and to realise that they are not so black as some would have'us iieliove.' Mrs Arthur StnnnoKl ("John Strange Winter"), recently interviewed by a correspondent of the Christian Endeavour Times as to her protest in the press these attacks, has said —"I wish it to be understood that in tile fashionable section of soeielv so often called the ' Smurt Set' there are very many who lead the purest lives, who are perfect slaves to the desire to do all the active good they can, and who give time, strength, and money on the most astonishing scale to the prosecution of the most beautiful charitable and philnnthropicul enterprises. Tho notion that the prominent leaders of the '' Smart Set ' are vicious und profligate is a scandalous libel. It is as false as all sweeping denunciations of anv class, high or low." ' What war means to the wounded nmy be gathered in some smull degree from the following letter of a Itussiun Sister of Mercy, writing home from Anping, south-east of JLiuo-vang "The wounded were .brought to the hospitul station in j hundreds. They were simply laid iflown side by side, and many died before tho'ir hirn ; canie to be attended to. The sighing und groaning were indescribable. ; ■. . We did what wo could, and relieved the men's thirst with tcaspoonfuls of ten and water, but we had no ice, and those who were wounded in the body had to die. The doctors worked day and night, tvjthouj, taking any rest. The oflicers and severely wounded soldiers were sent to Liao-yang on stretchers ; the others were placed in transport carts, which shook most awfully. The dead were buried only wrapped in linen cloth, for collln's ure tiJo dear here."

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