GENERAL NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 39, 5 February 1908, Page 4

GENERAL NEWS.

'I lie Kiel) papers describe a liorribje drama which has occurred at Susnice. A Strang,, man and woman knocked at the door of a farmhouse occupied by a landowner and his wife, and were shown cuty hospitality. The fanner agreed lo drive the male vi-itor to the neighboring village in order to filch the doctor tor his companion, w ho was ill, but they were hardly out of earshot- of the tai'in before ihe stranger the cart and shot the farmer dead. A! the tannhoiiM' th> pretended nick woman, who was a man in disguise, drew a revolver and ordered ihe farmer's wife to hand «»ver all the money and jewellery 111 tit,, house. She opened a chest, and, while ihe robiier. on his knees, was engaged in ransacking it. seized an axe and dealt a blow which almost severed the brigand's head from his shoulders. None mitlute.- later the second robber again knocked at the door of the house. The farmer's wile opened it. and, a* the man passed her, felled him lo the ground with a powerful swing of the axe, killing him mstatttaneouslv.

Pinizulu. with 1 wo of his uncles, was bani-hed after Cetewayo's rising of 187S--7!l to St. IMeiiii, nt 1 lie age of nineteen, lor attempted rebellion. He set to work ('I make the nio-f of |,is exile, writes "in 1 who know- liiin. and earnestly studied t lie l-aig-li-di hinguage. Often he e\-pre--ed his longing In go to London and -<'e tile < ■ real White Queen. lie will". I'nr.ipean drc... \ Niieil white |ieo|de freely. and attempted !o aelii, ve Ihe manner- of an KnglHi gontiemui. Like in,illy Zulu*, he lived in dread of being poi-nnod. Wood carving was a |i;>rtieii!'ir lioliliy with him. time he a-ked his i-*tig!i-h ten,-her wlia l wa- dun.- to iliomwho <i d 111 >t le : iru I|iii-kly. and was loid that tile backward |iu|iils were ".-toilil i.ll the funn." Shortly after lie- t'-aehi-r tumid til - stalwart eliief jii U-Mlj •iiin-liiiy "II a chair in th.- h»|i« ! h it l'i -ci il >iug he would make b, t tcr progress. 'file eviled ehief liad tv, i i titer bobble- be-ide- wood-carving. A leu liny- agu Mr-. Mary Ann Moore

who -hiely ought to have lieen. though -lie w.cn't, Ihe widow of the famous "did .Moure" of alnnmackiral fame - died in the l/inihetli Workhon-e. Smith London, at the fairly advnnnd ag-- of 1 1111 >ea: ■. leaving a daughter aged S:l. -tili living ill Ibi-tol. to mourn her loss. I lei-e ii«nre- are somewhat striking. lint the i-i-:iI !y rem irkabie feature ),ii» yet lo lie d.M'lo-ed. I'iial very eurprising .Mr-. Moure who has ju-t been tut oil', -o to -peak. " in the Mower of her youth." at-tn-uly leave-, a- well as a daughter of S.'t. a lnoi lier >|ill living to mourn her 10-,-. i hi- si ill more astonishing old lady i-'-ide. al llerwi.-k-on-Twied, and has attained v hat may fair!v ho tail-d the prime of life, having reaehed tile rea-onali'y ni.iture age of 1 IN years.

In New \ear- Day a pii-nie pariv al X irr.ii,vi. N.S.W.. '-.insisting of Mr.'and Mr-. I). I od\. I heir iwo Ii11!<■ girl- (Ida. aged 7. and Marie. Is niunth-i. I'. .! I.evey. and W. M. Malone. li.nl li-liing all day at liroadwater. ten miles Iroin Xanaliri. (),, tit,, jouniev home All-. I "it'y and Mi-. Malone -lait'ed lirst. ""'y hill nut driven far when thev heard -ereain-. and. looking hack, saw Mr-. ( oily on the hank, waving h r hand- frauli'-ally. They Il<i| J; .,r liatk, ■and reaihed 1 lie hank just in time to lake the eldest giil. Ida. out of her father"- arm-, ami to drag her father 1,111 H"' riier. It is that wh: n the fanrly were eealed in (he sulky, the hor-e. ii-iiiiliy a <juiet animal, hacked the sulky and iW occupants towards the bank of Hie river. .Mr-. Codv. realising ';»• danger, niauiiged to jump out. hut the oilier- could not get awav, and were precipitated over a hank Lift hWi into llie river, which i, over 2(lft dwp and inn- very strongly. The father cluii' lo thv two ehihlren for a lime. hut. bein" fully eloihed. found thai unless he ri" lea-ed one of them all would be drowned. -o he had lo let the babv go. I lie hither then managed to struggle to the hank with Ida. and was .mite e\--uu-ted when Air. Ah.lon,. came lo his ii'-lp. 'I lie hor-e was drowned. The poor mother was frantic, and could hardly he prevented from nifdiing into the ,iv ( .|- after her hahy. She became pi'o-draled with grier aiid shock, and a, dui-tor liad to he seui out from Xarrabn o at tend her. The lit tie girl Ida and her tili her had a narrow- escape es-I'lN-iiiHv the litile girl, who had swallowed a great (jiiantily of water.