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Marlborough Express, Volume XXIX, Issue 203, 18 August 1893, Page 2

BRIEF MENTION.

A man named D. R, Simpson fell twenty feet from a window of the Terminus Hotel, Auckland, to the scoria footpath, and wa3 killed. The barque Achievement when leaving Wellington for Duaedin yesterday, was driven on to the rocka m Worser's Bay. She is. not m a dangerous position. A con-iderable amount of electioneering, m view of the corning general election, is quietly going on. A man named Johnson was the other day imprisoned for a month for stealing & goldfish m Carlton Gardens, Melbourne, for food. Confession of faith, made by Dr Stockwell, a witness at the inquest held by Thomas Masson, slain at football at Mataura: — " I believe the football game is the moat black" guard game going." The crematory works at Orange (New South Wales) have been officially openad. They have cost £2000. la Queensland, last year, the revtnue derived from the duty on tobacco, snuff, and cigars decreased by £39,665. Aa excise duty is to be proposed on colonial tobaooo. Publishers Chatto and Windus received last year 633 MS.S. for consideration, and accepted 44. There is a threat to produce a religious " Tit bits." We presume it would, like the secular paper of that name, run some kind of insurance sobeme. What — fire ? Upwards of 300 Chinese were discovered working m the Melbourne furniture faotoriea on a recent Sunday. The industrious and frugal Chow ! It is a remarkable and noteworthy fact that since the beginning of the present year 53,000 Jews have left Russia for Palestine or other lands. Mrs Longshore Potts is lecturing m Sydney, and wants ladies to ride horses ia the masculine manner. The Sydney " gods " greet Lonaen'a appearance now with " Where's the bloomin' Editor ?" " M^rcutio," m the Auokland Weekly News, says — " It has been said, but it must not be mentioned above a whisper, that the authorities have m the past had great difficulty m getting some of the gold medals returned^; and that some of them have evea been unearthed m pawn shops. Bat, of oourse, no one would believe such things." The Achievement is on a sandy bottom and m no danger. An attempt to get her off failed.