MISCELLANEOUS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1893, 18 May 1889, Page 4

MISCELLANEOUS.

Hemp rope contracts if wet; a dry •pop® 25ft long is shortened to 24ft bn being wet.' Anct it should not be forgotten that a wet rope has only about one*third of the strength of a dry rope, while' if .saturated with grease or soap it . Lady Shaftesbury, daughter-in-law of the late philantrophic earl, has just opened a shop at Bournemouth, the fashionable winter resort for invalids, for the sale of farm and dairy produce from the home farm at St. Giles, thus following; thb example of the Duchess of Hamilton. The following is ?aid to have been overheard at the Oxford v. Maoris’ football match Lady Spectator (with an air of authority) : “ No, my dear, they are not thoroughbred Maoris; some aptr called half blacks, and others three-quarter blacks! ” A murder is reported to have been committed some way off Wynaad, in whichLa monkey (i detected the murderers".' It appears that a juggler and his wife, a goat and two monkeys were attacked ,by two Moplabs, who killed all except the male monkey (who escaped), and buried them t in the jungle. The male monkey took its station upon a big tree, watched everything, and when, a constable passed by the animal made after him, laid hold of the' man’s leg, and dragged him to the place where the bodies were buried. The bodies were exhumed, after which the monkey showed the way to a but which the murderers had entered. Not finding them, the animal took the constable in another direction, and suddenly ran at full speed, and seized a Moplab, who was going to bathe Hear a tank, by the neck, and waited till the constable arrived, This led to tbe detection of the murderers, who have been brought to Calicut.—Singapore Free Press,