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Mataura Ensign, Issue 673, 12 December 1899, Page 3

" Will you love me when I am old ?" she asked. " Certainly," he replied promptly, " if you will love nic when I am bald." " The man in the moon must be awfully old," said little Johnny. •' Why ? " queried bis father. "Because he has a birthday every month." The Otaki licensing poll is in favor of continuance by a large majority. The Sydney ' Daily Telegraph ' states that a young woman, said to be very well connected, " made up " as a man, with the idea of " working her passage out to South Africa," but her . " mnie-up," which consisted of a check suit much too large for her, and a straw hat, was detected, and she was detained by the police. She gave her name as May Porter, of Boydon, near Lynn. On obtaining this clue, the police promptly telegraphed, and in a short time received instructions to detain her until her friends could come. John Cullinane, of Bnglan, attempted to commit suicide by hanging in the Hamilton Hotel yard on Monday. He found a rope hanging to a beam used for supporting the shafts of vehicles, and standing on a box tied the rope round his neck, and was about to swing himself off when the yard boy rushed at him and seized his legs, which he-pulled violently. This caused the rope to give way, and Cullinane fell heavily and was stunned. He was immediately taken in custody. Ciillinann only arrived in Hamilton that day, and he found a considerable sum of money awaiting him from Home. He had evidently been drinking heavily. It is stated that Dr Hosking, the defeated candidate for Waikato, has been invited to tuke charge of the Methodist Church, Auckland, and has also received a call from a Christchurch congregation, but has not decided upon any course at present. The scrutiny of the Auckland City election voting has not affected the positions of the successful candidates, Messrs Napier, Fowlds and Crowther. In the Eden scrut ny eight duplicates were found. It has not transpiied how these affect the poll. On polling day a man named Henry Cowan fell over a face at Bannockburn and was not found till midday on Friday. He was alive then, but died shortly after.. He leaves a widow and family. In dismissing the appeal in a case in which the S.M. at Masterton convicted the licensee of th<- Club Hotel there for selling liquor on a Sunday night to persons who ' were not boiutjidc travelleis though they had assured the barman that they weie, the Chief Justice at Welliugton said were he to hold that merely asking a person demanding drink whether he wa- a traveller, and receiving ft" affii-mative reply, were sufficient, he would be laying down a rule that might make the provision of section 157 of the Act nugatory.

A drag leaves Kerr and Coutts' bazaar at 8 o'clock on Friday morning for the Tapanui Show. A few weeks ago the railway lino was opened to Winton, Queensland, and the local orators pointed with glowiiig pleasure to the fact that "every blessine of civilisation was now within the reach of all." The first cargo the " iron horse delivered was 21 hogsheads of beoi ! A meeting of creditors in tiic bankrupt estate of A. McKillop, bootmaker, Mataura, was held at Invercargill yesterday. Debtor's statement showed liabilities amounting lo £94 10s 8d ; assets £49 (book debts £20, stock-in-trade £10. furniture and tools £19). The principal district creditors were F. Thorn and Son, £8 os. Debtor stated that when be went to Mataura six months ago he was about £48 in debt. For the first six weeks his average earnings had been £2 ss ; then they went up to £4 or £5, but latterly came down again. He would like to pay his creditors in full, but was forced to file owing to having been served with a distress warrant. He was willing to pay 5s in the £if given six months' time. A resolution was proposed that 5s in the £ be accepted, provided that security were found, four months' lime being allowed. Mr Thorn said he firmly believed debtor could pay 20s in the £, and on the suggestion of the Assignee, Mr Thorn was empowered to make an inventory of the stock, the meeting being adjourned for a week, and Mr Thorn adding that he would agree to the proposal if the extra stock he thought was in the shop was found not to be there. At Chattanooga (Term.), on the evening of Angust 30, while six Mormon elders weie conducting a meeting in a schoolhouse at Pine Bluff, Stewart County, the building was stormed by a mob of over 100 men and almost entirely demolished. Those present fled in a panic to save their lives, as bullets began to strike the building thick and fast. Elders Hiram Olson and H. C. Petty left the building with a view of escape. Miss May Harden, a popular young woman of the place, walked between the elders, with a view of checking the work of the mob. While the trio passed down the road shots were fired from ambush. The woman was hit by a ball and almost instantly killed. Her brothers vowed they would avenge the crime, and after the first excitement died out secured bloodhounds-, and placed them on the trail of the assassins. Burton Vinson, a prominent young farmer and superintendent of a Sunday school, wrote a confession stating that he had killed the girl, but that it was an accident, and that he wished to nj himself of remorse of con cience. Shortly after the confession the bloodhounds trailed to his home. Vinson turned, picked up a knife, and cut his throat, and almost at the same instant sent a bullet through his brain. His family and the posse of officers witnessed the rfct of suicide.

The ' Napier Telegraph ' lets off the following shot at its coutemporaiy : — A specimen of journalistic dishonesty ! We arranged with a special coir spondent in Dunedin to give us a forecast of the elections in his district. He did so. He addressed his, message to us, endorsed it " special," and signed his name. By an error of the Electric Telegraph Department the message was delivered to ,the 'Herald.' Instead of handing it back they quietly appropriated it, published it, and set over it the lying legend " Special to the ' Hawkes Bay Herald.' " We should like to know the ditfereuce between barefaced robbery of this kind and pocket-picking. We discoveied the theft by the Telegraph Department billing us for the message. Utah claims a town of 350 inhabitants, nol one of whom is a woman. Not only are womeu not allowed as residents, but they are forbidden to enter the town limits. This unique village is named Sunnyside, and is situated in Whitmore Canyon, near Price. It is a coal mining camp, and is not, as might be supposed, the property of professed women haters, but of sordid business men. The company which owns the coal mines has not yet secured a perfect title to the lands- which form its property. Until the title is secure anyone establishing a home on the land might claim property rights, and foice the company to buy him out, and it was to prevent any such contingency arising that the company issued the edict against the miner's wives living in or even visiting the place. Evidently (says the ' New Zealand Times' 1 ) the political education of some of the gentler sex has been sadly neglected, for among several amusing blunders on election day was one of a woman who, entering the Skating Rink booth, walked round the various divisions closely scrutinising the usual alphabetical notices. Having completed her tour she looked puzzled, and then going up to the police officer asked : " Can you tell me which of them offices is Jellicoe's '?" Explanations followed, and the vote no doubt was recoided. The result of the Eiccarton election is to be made public to-day.