Miscellaneous.

Waipukurau Press, Volume I, 17 August 1906, Page 2

Miscellaneous.

Tokio has 800 public baths, which are used by 300,000 people daily.

Geelong College scored 257 points in a football match against Queen’s College, St. Kilda. The opposing team failed to score.

During the past fortnight fiftythree persons have been murdered and forty-one wounded in Warsaw. Two German factory-owners have been murdered at Lodz.

Two political prisoners in gaol at Odessa, saturated their mattresses with petroleum and set “fire to them. One was incinerated and the other rescued.

A. Taranaki sportsman shot a fine female opossum, not knowing what it was. The animal was carrying four young ones. Undertime Animals Protection Act the shooting of opossums is prohibited.

A living caterpillar was found in the infestines of a child wrhodied from inflammation of the bowels. The doctor who made an. autopsy stated that death was the result of artificial feeding, and that the caterpillar caused no injury.

The police of New York are investigating the case of Mrs Lena Versuit, alias Hamilton, who obtained large loans from middle aged gentlemen, to whom she proposed as willing to marry. She was the central figure in a syndicate of love, which, represented he?’ as a rich widow. One victim advanced £50,000.

Messrs. Nelson and Sons sued the Wilson Line to recover damages for a cargo of frozen RiverPlate mutton damaged through, the shippers not keeping the refrigerator at the proper temperature. The plaintiffs were awarded £23,909 damages. A stay of execution was granted to allow of appeal.

The Sepreme Court of the U.S_ decided that the Brooklyn RapidTransit Company was illegally charging two fares from Brooklyn Bridge to Coney Island, when it was only entitled to a single five cent fare. The decision was ignored and special police employed by the company forcibly ejected from, the cars two thousand people who objected to pay the extra fare demanded. Two women and a man who were ejected from the rear of a car when on a trestle bridgewere entrapped between two cars and thrown into the creek below,, being almost drowned.

The murder of the wife of Natella Habibulla, an Afghan, at North Adelaide during Sunday , night, and the arrest of the husband have caused much interest.. It is stated that after the marriage Habibulla’s wife went to live withanother Afghan, stating that shehad discovered that Habibulla had another wife in his own country but recently she returned to her husband. Jealously is supposed 1 to be the cause of the crime. It now transpires that the upper portion of the murdered woman’s, body was not in the sack fornd in Torrens Lake, but has since been.' recovered from the Lake. Mr McNab, when being banquetted at Gore the other evening, said-—lt was the first time for many years that there was at the head of the Governmedt a man with thoroughly up-to-date business methods. The party had not had a leader with modern business methods as they were now known.. The men brought into the Government of the colony would not let'jr one man carry all the burden as had been done in the past th; reby hurrying a Premier into an early grave. If the shoulders of those who had to bear the burden were not broad enough for their work they would have to go back to private membership.