BY THE WAY.

Mataura Ensign, Issue 1416, 26 November 1904, Page 3

BY THE WAY.

Mr Bunkum, of Balham, advertises in the 'London 'limes' that lie wishes in future to be known by the name of miehunan. In China suspicious coins may be lawfully manufactured when il is intended placing them in tilie collins of the dead. The Chinese believe that thero bad coins make the dead happy. An estate in fee simple in Finland has, says a cable to an American paper, been willed to Satan by its deceased owner. Repeated attempts to break the will have failed. 'Slicing to death" has been removed from Uic Cliine.se code of puuishnient for criminals. A condemned Chinaman cannot 'now be legally cut into more than four pieces. Among negroes in Louisville divorce is Aerv popular. Jt is considered a distinction to be. divorced, because it costs money, and it is not within the power of every negro to afford the luxury, When an intoxicated man is arrested in Lockland, Ohio, ho is placed in a whecl J burrow and wheeled about the town before being locked up. A man seen in this pmlicament is-shunned by his neighbors for a long term. Llangwni, a village is South Pembrokeshire, is now without a publichouse. The last inn was closed the other day, and the licensee became an inmate of the workhouse. The village also suffers from an insullicient water supply. The bakers in Masterton have reduced the price of the twn-pound loaf to three-pence cash ; hitherto it was threepence half-penny. Major Dudley Alexander, who was out here with Lord Ifanfurly as Private Secretary, has resigned his commission, and irf now living as 'a private citizen at Dover.

A Marlborough paper, in rejoicing over the vote lor tlic i'ietol gaol and police station, remarks : ''Tile news will bo of interest to all our readers." Owing- to ail explosion of chemicals in-the mail van on ja train fcibuml for Mount Malcolm (\testralia) the van and a number of mail bags were destroyed by lire. < fine August Ist New York has had 'J- murders, and less than half a dozen arrests ; 72 felonious assaults, with 110 arrests ; and 01 burglaries, with no arrests. The scrubber ladies at Parliament House. Wellington, have presented ''the second housekeeper" with a gold Match, suitably inscribed lor her 'kind appreciation of their elTorts during the session. Rumor.has dt thai a marriage eventuated last week in the vicinity of Foxton, in which the bridegroom had seen SO summers, and the bride is aged 22 years. A rather sensational incident occurred at Wailii the other day. A young woman named Check, a resident of Wailii. attempted suicide by throwing herself into the river. On being rescued 1• ■ expressed a desire to be shot. The increase in the French naval estimates during the decade is 2li.N, British SS, Russian !>'■!, Germany IJS, and the I'nited States ]So per centMr J. Delvin announces the exclusion from the United Irish League of Dublin members of public bodies who voted an address of loyalty to tjie King. A joint, committee of Dorsetshire farmers' clubs advocated preferential treatment of colonial flour, but not barley, wheat, or dairy produce. They considered that, a duty , of 2s 011 wheat would not materially increase Britain's production. The Dunediu City Council has decided to prosecute the W'aipori Falls scheme for electrical energy, and to spend continuing operations thereon. Ashburton County Council has decided to join other Councils interested in testing the, legality of the Government deducting moneys from subsidies for the upkeep of combined traffic and railway bridges. The value of the Vatican, the Pope s residenc at Rome, and its treasures in money, would exceed l"10,000,000. Because her husband persists i 1: smoking cigarettes in bed. slrs Bosworth, of San Francisco, a bride ot a month, seeks a divorce. .She: complains that she was almost suffocated with the Iveavy smoke.