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Hot Lakes Chronicle, Volume 2, Issue 125, 15 May 1895, Page 4

,\ wedding party had father a trying experience during the recent floods in the "Wellington district. Arriving at tho parsonngo : the bride had to be carried from the carriage into the houae upon the shoulders of Hie bridegroom, through three feet of -water, and when the ceremony was over tho return trip had to lie similarly performed. Their troubles were not then at an end. as the bridegroom got an involuntary bath before ho reached home. Poison plays an important part in social relations in tho Punjab, judging from an official report which, for the year 1893, gives a total of JOS cases of homicide hy poison, and 2'JS cases of the poisoning; of cattle. Opium is the favorite means of suicide. When it is a question of killing someone else, arsenic and datura arc She preferred agents. .For cattle, arsenic and the poisoning reeds of a plant arc employed, but arsenic is the more popluar. An in I ••;. stinjr dis ■;. bas bneti made nt Pianella Sottoiuiini, neiir Pompeii. A house bas been uneartbed which was covered at the time the city was buried, and it is said to be in a more perfect conditio: than any building yet discovered. Tf; contains several large apartments and ' three bathrooms, with the basins in sculptured marble and with leaden pipes ornamented with bronze faucets. The houceis complete, and just as it was when over-whelmed by Vesuvius. The Mastorton correspondent of a "Wellington paper says : —"Ten more station holders of the"East Const have just given notice that they will not accommodate travellers after May IS. The reason given is that thev are already paying high charitable aid rates ; they object to beirjg rated doubly.''' i An unfortunate and expensive mistake occured at Petone the other night. A truck of stud sheep from tbo Manawatu, consiged to a breeder at tho Hutt, got mixed up with a consignment of several trucks of fat sheep for tho Gear Company, and the high-bred animals wore all duly converted into mutton before the errorwas discovered. RHEUMATISM.— Dr E. Gordon's remedy fails in permanently curing Elieu mut.isii', Lumb.ifro. Sciatica, Gout, etc., and g.e i, relie ]rj b, LO3, post free. W CrvrioN P.OBox 234 -Dunedin.—