NEWS, VIEWS, AND OPINIONS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXV, Issue 38, 13 February 1904, Page 1 (Supplement)

NEWS, VIEWS, AND OPINIONS.

Ute dexterity of the truly great Jl- wonld command admiration were I fr -7 in a better cause, and the United ZJbA in arresting Lieberraann. alias f a lia= Schmidt, may b<? en-titled to rLratulate himself on having preventSThuge ma- of counterfeit no es I L teiz unloaded upon New York. is admittedly one of the L expert forgers in the world: ana P .-rr.'- W have had evcr - v necessary in his possession. Only one J E -,f rote- on the Bank of Englaud I equaled in dexterity Sfflidt. That man w Charles Price, STcaused consternation anion- the Snk officials toward* the end of the I cenuirv. By a large issue c!? /ever a long period he defrauded I 1 bank of over K200.000. and Price's like Schmidt's, arose from the [Znitv to execute a complete note w::hrLtraneous aid. Price maae his L paper- with proper water-mark, en!U«d the platrt. manufactured _ the tk and printed the notes in a private I for which processes he had three tees-, with a difTerent wife in each. I ffi= favourite plan to the notes «= cleverly disguised, to get boys from I ac streets to make small purchases, the being paid for by K-ged notes; -ie one day he was caught passing j. ote by a pawnbroker, and lodged j. Seagate There he was recognised 1 a windier who had defrauded Foote. I fle comedian, in a brewery transaction. tt i without waiting for trial. Price j hinged himself in h> ceil. Tn connection with the work of counterfeiters referred to abov». there is a kit ingenious variety of the "vM I American" which succeeds to j 1 as extraordinary degree. It is inti- i f rated to the victim "bar certain eaI waters have discovered a way of pro%jssz absolutely unimpeachable notes. j siid that, for a consideration, they are ] reared to let him have some samples. X lie "Mtes,"' he gets mo dollars in gennotes, and. oi course, finds- no diffic alrv m passing them. He i~ then entonraged to invest all his spare cash in tie notes, paying for them eboui 10 per cent, of their face value. } gj generally sends whatever he can sford. and then he hears nn more, and pts ao notes. Of course, he dare not to the police, for to do so is t£> convict aim sell. Tiat chatty weekly, "■μ-ap" tells a painr story apropos of Mr Dan. Leno's j iraaoß to attending ".-mart society" j feeriorrs. his reason being that the Kdisices are too well bred to approate ills humour. He had appeared ai jkmainPark Lane, and had given his Itej entertainment, ihe lanjrour of hi? H-tensis made him feel not too happy, adle was glad to retire to the dre>s-is-roon allotted him. While he was rsECvcig tiie greiis. , paint a very young: j paer. t≥o bad strolled after him. -rood j raaiog tie process. He told Leno. in i tie most- approved drawl, that ?ome of & sayings had really been rather izzt. "Especially that one. you know. ware your, wife made a pancake on a. j gnfinw- and the pancake slipped Ssssgs aad put the art- out. That rifia ing Laugh awfully, because I know Wii a gridiron is. I have seen one."' Xoos azi Voos TWO Km fimnour h a notable charactprISE sr the Emoress-Dowajrer of China. ti; :Ji lady who is looked to to play a sar important and equally uncertain pit is. tie present trouble. The latest jSsntiQn of this trait was given by tie aapst lady in connection with the Ess; of a favourite attendant named iiLisa Ting. Li was down with fevpr, EHitis. royal mistres?. in a state of the palest ansiety. summoned to attend ps sverai prominent native physic—i «io. after an inspection of •then pSrat, pronounced him to be in no tt?sr. The Empress-Dowajrer was not i stMsi with this assurance, and made Ca medical savants give a written Fscaree that they would completely Store him to health. As the attendI P,, 13 a man advanced in years, it is j Eply improbable that the unfortunate paeans wi u be able , t0 cayTy cut j «ir fledge, and failure trill bring down them quite enough Imperial di~i passe to make life a burden to be 4 w «ii at the earliest opportunJ il ■^ s c rsce and suicide are synonr--3 -sit? srindnng and meanness are re- ?* M a fine art in »ome larger fit- * for some time Pari- newspaper I f=pnetnrs have complained of a spec- •*-« petty dishonesty, which they Jβ mainly tried to prevent. Waiter's 1 Zv" cl " dubs actinjr in collusion S| tenants of the kiosks, have 3 ed th « daily pajiers, and wh-n i -V^f 76 - en ' e(l their purpose, handed 1 S fto Ule i'ew*vendors so that J imght be included next day among J P-^ l — P°"" S and J W i i° Ire, l uenll y pi-k up unsoiled I &71- , the Proprietor,, and it is esui !Jt2»t the losses to rhe latter by ■una of frand amount to betwepn fOUr thn franc- a day. £j-> driemma. the Syndicate n- la "cr"*: v n=!eane a to M. Barrrench engineer, and he has proQ w ingenious v/hi-h it is t*VmST\£ " IttlP Perroraced fc k_ ci Ol rh r- about two inches 4ht f ,f arter of a » in'"'! ! =sp fl 0V " thP ""P r Of W?"J?, hat ,the ■i" l '™ 3 ,' annot be i^^ientr d b : he ,iip con r in3 &eri. U1 ho let out to adver--0 1" »» w Owen reS,; NeiV Zeala!,rl ™°a was lait mon ti> by Professor Ray or? .V c : tUr, at the R °- Val In " ! **kt£jl E f l)nn AnimaU." It is • f *aeiw CUapU ' r in ! ' ! ° "mance Brp " in , e lact th.it of a res emblan a do "" aud constant sST C ' t0 M M, - h ot! »" i» form and tot nab ! ed said mc P roI« bone de nt'Sed if mm fragments O*en on % ana t? " h - For Stance. I eif &nl. r j CeiVed BOn e b °:ies from; and: , examination of their Wto at f 1 lum t0 be- j V andfl ' om c f°nn of l %at ; n ne . he to affirm I there lived in Xew fe 4 o ie an ° itriA - °ut bigand af q r ntly he received mor'sN in ■ was able to Put them th l skeleton - ofamo " "fcareoovM probab] y existed alive years ago. '