News Items.

Hastings Standard, Volume IX, Issue 5106, 25 January 1906, Page 3

News Items.

In a Parisian cafe recently a thief declared that he felt an attack of rabies coming on. and when all the occupants had tied he decamped with £lO from the till.

The experiment of holding a carnation show, for the first time in Christchurch, proved a very great success so far as the exhibits were concerned. The show was projected by some amateurs who are enthusiasts, and the result exceeded their expectations. Mary Adamthwaite, a New Yorkgirl, 15 years old, has sued her father for assault. The assault consisted in cutting off her curls to prevent her from going out. The father was bound over in £2OO.

A young man was lined 20s at Blenheim for attempting to kiss the proprietress of a restaurant. During the affair complainant slapped him in the face and knocked him down, at the same time describing him as a " dirty, beery-mouthed brute.'

A man who was arrested at Thame > last week, and who had been attacked by delirium tremens through over indulgence >n drink, admitted havin-,' got through £SO during a three weeks'

stay in Auckland. He was under the impression that au imaginary man in Auckland was discharging liquid electrici'y at him.

Great ell'orts (says a London paper") are being made to revive interest in Rugby football in Bristol, and Mr D. McGregor, the brilliant New Zealand ihreequarter, who scored four tries against England tin Saturday, has been persuaded to address the players affiliated to the Bristol combination on how t" pktv football.

A plant u-ed for converting sixpenny pieces into counterfeit halfjovereigns was discovered in Perth (W.A.) Many of the latter for months past, have been circulated on the goldtields, and for a week past Detective Mann had been investigating. Ho arrested three men, some time out fnm South Africa, and found a complete plant in a boase in Perth. The leader is said to be an assayer from Johannesburg. ~