General News

Bruce Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 3097, 8 September 1899, Page 1

General News

At the Supreme Court Wellington on Tuesday, W. N. Oathro, solicitor, B'eilding, fouad guilty of having fraudulently omitted to account for a cheque for £IQBi Is Id, belonging to John Prior, was sentenced to three yeara 1 imprisonment. The Toloaa'a men in the Wellington hospital are improving, and are not in any immediate danger, Mrs Blake, who a few yeara ago wag sentenced to imprisonment for life at Wellington for attempting to poison her husband, was released on Saturday on the ground of ill-health. Some tim« ago a business firm at Christchuich issued imitations of a £5 note as an advertisement. Henrietta Smith was on Monday fined £1 and ordered to make restitution for obtaining goods and change by means of one of these. Uuusual interest is being takaa in the municipal elections at Napier. All the retiring councillors in each ward are being opposed. A man named Daniel M'Leod, working on Adauss and party's dredge at Tuapeka Mouth, was killed on Tuesday night by the winch handle strikiDg him on the forehead. He was a married man, and leaves a wife and six children. An inquiry will probably ba held. All the public golf link-i in America are now crowded on Sundays, while the quests at country houses and summer resorts spend the greater part of the Sabbath swinging the mashie and the brassie. Church attendance has been decreased to such an extent hat clergymen are discussing the question in the pulpitg. The general sentiment appears to be strongly against Sunday playing, although many ministers agserc that people whose outdoor recreations are limited to Sunday should not be debarred from the game on that day. The Eev. J. Sutor, the recsor of Epiphany Church. Boston, and an enthusiastic golfer, declares that Sunday, golf is no more sinful than a Sunday walk, and equally beneficial. The infant child of Mr T. H. Hamerton, of Patea, says an exchange, was attacked by either a rat or weasel when lying asleep in its cot two or three nighta ago. The mother was awakened by hearing a choky cough, and on procuring a light found the baby to be completely smothered in blood, the cough being produced by the blood in its mouth. Closer examination showed its face to have been bitten in six or seven places, one bite on the nose being quite half an inch long, and at one place deep. The youngster had been fed and returned to its cot only something less than an hour before. Houses so infested mast make particularly pleasant family residences ! A New York despatch of July 5 saya — At Binghampton yeaierday, Lewis Ginsberg, a Jewish Rabbi, was stabbed through the heart by a negro, and fell dying. The Rabbi's ribs were parted, and the heart exposed. The physicians iujected saline solution to replace the blood between the pulsations* and a doctor rapidly pa&sed a needle and thread through the left ventricle and took several stitches. The patient rallied, lives, and, it is believed, ho wiil recover. Mr J. Raycer, of Taratahi, baa three ewes which have in the aggregate proa'ueed ten lambs, viz., two threes and a four respectively. The lambs are doing remarkably well.