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Bush Advocate, Volume XVI, Issue 582, 5 December 1904, Page 4

We arejpleased to he* able^Vstate that Mr'H. Ai Deigbton is Tw^m^ satisfactory progress at tbe Waipukurau Hospital, and expects tti be al>le to return to Dannevirke shortly. ■' ?;. ,-y. z

By the lonic, which lef fc London on November 17th, and is due in^ Wellington on January 3rd, a barty of female servants will arrive. This will be good dlws for hottsewiyes.. - -.. . „ , A weak spot in the Wellington tram service has developed. The sharp curves on the city tracks are, telling on the wheels of the electric cars. Three cars have been disabled witbin the. past fortnight^ -

Attention is -directed. to the fact that the socialin connection with St. John* Church, to be -held yoh Wednesday evening, will take place atthe Ruahine Hall, owing -to the, fact that ihe alterations to the Parish Hal! are. still in .progress. y : -- vy. ': • * : J A-'' ■'• JAyA.

.The Canterbury Preji^y says:—Notwithstanding the eriigmafcieal utterances of the vPreuuer^m regard to the High. Commissionershin, we A have very good reason for believing that he intends to accept the position,, /and #ill leave for England during the coming year;, ,

A United Friendly Societies' demonstration.was held at N-apier .yesterday afternoon in aid of the Hospital fund. The nurses from the Hospital wearing the Red Cross badge carried round collecting boxes, and the sum of J6208 was collected. A similar demonstration, was held at Wellington. . Spectator par :■ — An elderly gent waswalking through Cranmer Square the other afternoon, when he saw a boysitting on. the. grass, crying and holding his stomach, while another boy was in the act of running away: "My poor little chap !" said the old gent, " where :did that cruel % boy hit you?" " Bbo-00-oo," cried the youngster, "weWas playing at Japs, *an 'c torpedoed me in the engineroom."

Mr A. G. Hickford, of Rongotea, is proceeding against the Feilding Star oil a writ claiming £501 damages for alleged, libel in connection with a report. of some statements made by C. Palk, organising: secretory of the Prohibition League.Thesame plaintiff, who holds a wholesale license at Bongbtea, is also claiming: £100 damages foir alleged slander in connection with the same matter. The actions are to be heard at the next sitting of the Supreme Court in Palmerston North. ,

. In a case heard in London, where a Polish Jew was summoned for being in* arrears, on a main^ainance order to hiswife, it was stat*d that the defendant had gone before the jßaebi and "put* his wife away from him." Nothing more was necessary than for the husband tb go with witnesses before the Rabbi, and, having obtained his consent after hearing all the facts and wife'sdefence, to say :. (> I put this womanfrom me "'; then to her : " Get . thee-> hence ; I spit upon thee" ; and the ceremony was complete.

During the recent cyclone storm at - Cooma (N.S.W.), a teamster was drivinga team of ten horses attached to awaggon loaded with 30 bales of wool,, covered with a tarpulin, to Cooma station. When passing Glenhrook shearing shed the team . became, exposed broadside to the fury of the storm,, whicb turned the team and the load,, weighing over eight tons, completely over. , The .driver asserts that thewaggbn wason a leyel-foad : at the time. The horses were not injured.

By his own account, the Premier is* having a bard time at the hands of his. doctors. He told a Lyttelton Timesreporter that they were hard taskmasters, and insisted upon him mortifying bis flesh at every turn. They had taken-, two stone off hia^ weight, and were nowdemanding two stone more. He was not allowed to eat this or drink that;-, he was made to walk and to ride when he felt far more inclined to rest, ands mr a- little time they, would probably devise some fresh means' .of bodily ' torture.' He-was getting rather tirech of the exactions, and beginning to wonder whether it would not be hetter to take to pick and shovel work at ouce than to pay this constant penalty for his sedentary life. '

A remarkable, story was told at theLondon Hospital 21st, when Mr WynneE. Baxter held an enquiry concerning:: the death of Alfred Dodd, aged 32, au grainer arid write j- by trade, lately \^ residing in Holloway Boad, Leyloristone. At a concert in Leytonstone, a few weeks ago, he was singing the song,. "What will the end be?" which tella the story of a. gambler's end In ther last Verse the singefr is supposed toeomriut'suicide by shooting himself with a pistol containing a dummy oartridge. . The pistol used on this occasion, how-' ever, would not go off at the propertime, and while Mr Dodd was examining it it' exploded, and he died next day from lookjaw caused by the injury to his hand.

The " no'tipping "[testaurant opened in Paccadilly is reported to have made ■ a remarkable beginning. "The number dined on the first day," said Mr Lyons^. " was 20,800." " Have you succeededin overcoming the tipping habit ?" MrLyons was asked; "I think," he replied, " we may claim to have done so effectually. A few shillings altogether wereleft on the tables, but they were promptly handed over to the management by the waiters. Eresb relays of cooks as well as waiters, have had to beput on, otherwise we should have "been.: all dead." The scene at the cafe at oneo'clock resembled a theatre first-night' crowdl People were literally scrambling for admission, and the door attendants required police assistance to stemthe rush.

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