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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XXII, Issue 3466, 23 October 1896, Page 3

The new woman is having an innings at Aitutaki, in the Cot k Islands. The native women watcb every vessel that arrives, and seize ait the liquor landed on the beach in order to prevent the man getting drunk. Acting on the advice of the British Resident at Karoionga, they intend to dest oy i<ucb liquor in future when they seize it. As the landing is illegal no one cau claim compensation. £ A Cornish min«' r recently fell i. t !.da(t 120 Ve*t dee^ i»ut *-o mr •'«• was ttie upcael curreut of air tt.at his dei>e*-ut was so retanie.. that ho escaped practical!} unhurt. Nt-w« ii<»m the H4ist states that a hundred wumen and girl* com- j mitted nuicidf in the huphrate»», at Kbarj.ut, to escape oLtrage A 'ig 0 '" »nake was killed at Circular- Quay, Sydney, and on exaumiat ouit was r'< und that tickwere fastened here and there on its bo ty. While cutting hay fr<>m<n><>t last year's nckt«, on a farm at Harr -w, England, th** ha) cutter struck through » human arm. The body— which was that of a man of the working class- -must have beeu in the rick since it wa* made, a twelvemonth ag>. Whether he had crawied in dur iug the night and been suffocated, or been covered up and built in without being observed by the farm bads, must remain a niygtery An inquest was held but the man was not identified, and an open verdict was returned. A Frenchman bang* by the neck for hours at a time, at a place of entertamoient in London, the ex hibition apparently proving an attraction.