Small Talk.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XVIII, Issue 6780, 24 August 1900, Page 2

Small Talk.

In Melbourne, a married woman, Mrs Goodcliffe, got up early, while her husband was asleep, and oat her throat with a razor. At the Central Criminal Court, Sydney, Dr Michael Lyons Butler was sentenced to five years' penal servitude for performing an illegal operation. j A nest of nuggets weighing 70oz has been found in the Indicator shaft of the New Nornianbv, Ballarat, Victoria. The other week a nuggefc of 108oz was found there. j The other day William Miller, . a hawker, was killed at Brewarrini, Now South Wales, through one of the wheels o£ his waggon passing over his iead. A farrnor named Bottle, who |vas shot through the head at Dimbooja, while acting as marker at the rifle butts, died on tho following afternoon. j I A Melbourne lady reports tlat a thief entered her house, rendered ier insensible by using a handkerchief saturated with amesthetic, and then robbed her, J taking even her wedding ring, A somewhat startling disboyery was j made by a rat-catcher at Sydney, when i he found the dead body <jf a female child floating in the water under the French wharf, with the throat cut. He reported the matter to the jvater police, aad the city coroner hold an inquest. The coroner found, after medical evidence had been given, that the child was still-born. The body had the appearance of having been in the water for several days.