MAIL NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XL, Issue 7413, 1 October 1902, Page 3

MAIL NEWS.

MAD LADIES "IN POKf.KKKION." Two ladies went to an Ipswich hotel on a recent Tuesday and took. rooms. Subsequently they locked themselves in the rooms, and when the landlord went up to remonstrate tiji-v told him flatly t.cv would rot p„v him anything. This was suf-_i-i'o*it!y disconcerting, but he was further staggered by being informed tlirough the keyhole that he was posiessed of the devil. Probably as some measure of consolation, one of the ladle* added that her companion was a female Christ, about to undergo ft second resurrection. The only thing in the nature of a resurrection that both underwent was an ejectment from the rooms, which was effected after the landlord had appealed to the magistrates for assistance. The women, who are supposed to be insane, were removed to the workhouse. RISING IN MOROCCO. Alarming news has just reached Fez to the effent that the Ai.iml/i tribe, in the A tin* region between Fez and Teela, have revolted, killing the Governor and carrying oIT women and children. Kaid Omar, the War Minister's brother, has been appointed to command a division, and military measures have been taken. Other tribes are joining the Aijud/.i, and a sanguinary struggle Is expected. A l-IFB DRAMA. A great ..ensation wns caused some time ago in Munich by the disappearance of the young and beautiful Baroness Baldwin a few hours after she had been married to the Count Stettinhausen. It was the circusrider Zigora who had abducted her to Austria. Shortly afterwards the brutal and profligate circus-rider deserted her, leaving her entirely destitute, and to support herself and her child she had to work as a common day labourer.

Not being used to hard work, however, she soon fell sick, and was un- . aJ"le to pay for the board of her I child, which was brought to her In g;:the hospital, where she, lay sick. #-_l ot _ knowin X what to do, she left *§;the hospital'in her desperate condip tion, and soon after the child wa. -II?1-. doad in tllc brushwood near RBudapest. Last month a hopelessly Mil woman named Amanda Weber H£j**as admitted into the St. Rochus ggHospltal of Biiiliipcstli, where she fffdied on Friday night. A few hours ffrbefore her death she revealed her sritrue name—Countess Maria Stettinhauscn.

i SWISS HONESTY. §.. Berne has the reputation of being !;■ the most honest town in SwitzcrW land. A schoolboy found a puree I containing 500 francs in notes, gold, I and silver, and promptly ran to the i police-station with it. He was re- !■ warded with a present of fifty francs " A railway employee found a dia- _ mond bracelet of great value at the : station and returned it to its owner, an English lady. A peasant recently found a box of loose diamonds belonging to a com- ' mercial traveller on the roadside, .'. and walked seven miles to the stall; tion with it. pi It is said that not a single article |v lost in the town within the last two §1 years but has found its owner.