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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1216, 28 October 1882, Page 2

A notorious Leicester drunkard name# John Hutching has become so accustomed to being apprehended for this offence that he has acquired the habit of repairing to the police station whenever he finds himself in that condition. Captain John Buttler, of the North V Shore Perry Company. Sydney, has 26 lives from drowning. " ■ A man named Fred Frier was remanded ; at Burton-on-Trent, on a charge of attempted suicide by jumping into tho - : Trent. Defendant said he was an Army Reserve man, and rather than fight in Egypt, he tried to drown himsef.

A jury in Fayoite County, Texas, con. victed a man of murder, and then drew lots to determine whether lie should be hanged or imprisoned for life. He was. hanged. The last conquest remaining to.- be achioved in the higher altitudes of theMont Blano tange has fallen to the lot of' M, Sella, who has scaled the Aiguille da Geaut, 13,156 ft high. The existence of th 9 ex-King of Naples- : and his wife, who have been living iit'? > obscurity in Paris, has only been varified! by a visit to some quiet watering place on tile French coast,,