THE LATEST.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1889, 14 August 1884, Page 2

THE LATEST.

[Received August 13, 4 p.m.] The Proposed Expedition. Cairo, August 12. Sir Evelyn Wood will probably command the expedition which it is proposed to despatch to Khartoum in October for the relief of General Gordon and the garrison.

A Bad Customer. — " We don't sell spirits," said a law-evading beersellers ; we will give you a glass, and then if you want a biscuit we'll sell it to you for threepence, " The "good creature" was handed down a stiff glass and swallowed it, and the landlord handed his customer a biscuit. " Well, no, I think not," said the customer, " you sell 'em too dear. I can get lots of 'em five or six for a penny t'swhere." Precaution Against Fike. — Madame Rambourlac engaged a new cook and, after giving her a variety of instructions, added : " And mind'you are careful about the fire, I am so dreadfully afraid of accidents." — " Oh, Madame," you have nothing to fear," was the reply, " there will be almost every evening a fireman in the kitchen." Public Whipping of Women. — " Little more than a hundied years ago, women were publicly whipped at the whipping-post by the stocks, or at any cart's tail. The fierce statute against vagrants of Henry VlU's and Elizabeth's reign made no distinction of sex, and their ferocious provisions to * tha effect •that ' offenders should be stripped Tnaked from the middje^upwardop and whipped till the body should be bloody,' long continue in force Men with, their wives and children were flogged publicly, aud sometimes by the order of the^elergyman of [the parish. Girls of twelve ana thirteen, aged women of sixty, all suffered alikV^^omen distracted^ that is, ,out of their minds, .were^ arrested and Wheel ; ■so were tlioaa that bad the small* pox, and, aU who, wft&ed about the country