MISCELLANEOUS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1743, 29 May 1888, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

The Council of the University of Cambridge, England, has reported against giving degrees to women. Miss Booth, of Harper’s Bazaar, besides her editorial salary of £I6OO, makes £IOOO a year by translating. Some Saxon remains hare been dug up at Cambridge. One female skeleton had a silver ring upon the, finger. A Hew Yorker proposes to make a railroad car of wood pulp. He claims that it will be indestructible either by fire or by shock. Norway has a battalion of armed skaters, who manoeuvre readily oh the ice or snow. Their skates are six inches wide and nine long. Mr D. L. Murdock, who recently returned from a visit to England, resigns his position of General Manager of the Bank of New Zealand ’at the end of May. The Takapuna (Auckland) Local Option poll on Saturday, resulted in 52 for an increase of licenses, and 34 against. Hitherto there have been 20 licensed houses in the district.

A shocking outrage was committed in one of the cells of the Central Police Station, Sydney, on Friday night by a prisoner named Hewitt on another man named Park. The latter was on Saturday morning discovered horribly mutilated. “ Mary, this is the stillest house I ever lodged at. The landlord and his wife must live like angels in heaven together. I haven’t heard one single sound since I have been here.” “ That’s all very nice, just now, Mr Smith; but wait till they make friends again. They quarrelled a fortnight ago, and they haven’t spoken to each other since.” At the Christchurch Police Court yesterday morning, John Henry Donovan pleaded “ guilty ” to having victimised Joseph Suckling, A. J. Merten, Henry John Chitty Harper, and others, representing that he had been authorised to collect money for the starving families of the unemployed. He had gone generally round the town and collected sums wherever he could, and there was a great number of cases that the police might have brought against him. He was also charged with having obtained goods to the value of 6s 8d from one Margaret Foster on false representations. He pleaded that he and his family were starving, but the Bench pointed out that his previous career and criminal history was such as to preclude any possibility of leniency being extended to him. He was sentenced in all to fifteen months’ imprisonment, with hard labour. Baxtbu’b Lung Pkesbrvkii has gained great popularity in this district as u sptndy and effectual remedy m the treatment of Coughs, Colds, Bronchitis, and othei chest and throat complaints. Bead udvt. und try it.