BY THE WAY.

Mataura Ensign, Issue 471, 16 August 1898, Page 2

BY THE WAY.

Dull. Storms about.

Sun retired into private life. A week's steady work at the shining busi ness very creditable.

Sensation at Jacobstown. The dead body of a newly-born infant found.

The missing man Wilson, of Mntaura, not yet discovered.

Puller's Myriorama at the Gore Town Hall to-night. A crowded house will, no doubt, " Remember the Maine."

Weather lately perfection for cycling. Far better than the last alleged summer. Another of the fast-disappearing band of civic fathers (Mr Carmody) resigned. By and bye a spot of grease, or a collar button, will be all that is left to tell the tale of the past glories of our once-lively corporation officials.

A drunken miner with £148 in gold in his pockets lay in the gutter of Little Lonsdale street, Melbourne, for several hours the other night, while, half a block away, a man was arrested in the act of going through another toper for 3d and an old handkerchief.

Aluminium coffins, costing from £150' to £280, are now in great demand in the United States.

.At the Christchurch S.M. Court on Saturday, a man was charged with obtaining money by false pretences from Chief Detective Chrystal !

In the recent fighting at Santiago, the Spaniards used brass-sheathed bullets, which tear horribly and cause blood poisoning. They also cut small crosses on the ends of their Mauser bullets, which "mushroom " with terrible effect.

It is understood that on Commissioner Tunbridge's recommendation, Inspector Emerson will be retired.

In Melbourne, recently, a man leaped 24ft from a window to escape arrest. He just missed a spike fence, and got away.

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