GENERAL NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10347, 23 January 1897, Page 2 (Supplement)

GENERAL NEWS.

A POLITICIAN fir TROUBLE. The Forfarsirire Liberal Executive M ' ... inittoo mot in Dundee a few days »tr o . >"' ' passed a resolution declaring that they hart ■". learnt with dcop regret that crave chare ' affecting the personal character of M Martin White, M. P., had been made m £ ' him, and circulated throughout the co ' stituency. Being informed . that thea '••■ charges had become the subject of litigation' ' in Court of Session, the committee cd4fP sitlered it their duty to take no action $ '■' garding them, in tho hopa that they injng , be cleared up in course of the proceeding ' Mr. Whito has since left D ndee ; oiiT/i way to India. As regards tho litigation,- it i? said the pursuer is the daughter of -'i Scottish divine who considers she' i ias ■*''■ chum against tho member for ForfarshJ ' Mr. White 19 one of the younger member - of the House, and is not yet forty. Heh i J.P. who is concerned 'in veral nubii!! institutions in Dundee, and he is the h«| -. ; of the mercantile house of J. F. White at it Co., of New .fork. He was 'educated I '- Dundee and E liuburgh University. r . r' ; . OPKIUTED OX A XIOFP. ' ' '■' /" ... Same years ago one of the finest tfoew'iii! ■ : the Zoological Harden, in Dublin had a .„„■•' foot. A claw, had turned and grown back 1, into the flesh. When the trouble was dk '' covered gangrene had sot in, and it '& feared that tho tiger would have to ■ h : killed. I).-. Samuel Haughtoii, a member ;V of the faculty of Trinity College and a y !' known Irish practitioner, offered to operate on the tiger. The offer was accepted Th " : tiger's mate was confined in another caw and the tiger was secured in a strong n l' ; Dr. lluughton began cutting- away tliV diseased flesh, while the suffering Hn» snarled and strutted fiercely. V tbe ■ other cage the tigress made even more- ' desperate efforts to come to the rescue 01-' ■ her mate. After the operation was con. > eluded tho t.i»re?s was allowed to rejoin her I mate, and she examined the bandaged ' carefully, and licked the sufferer much as ' cat soothes a kitton. A week later Dr v Haughton again visited tho Zoo. He- wai - greatly surprised to find that both t≤ll and tigress wore glad to see him, Tj, e §k tiger submitted patiently to an examination 'hiof the sore font, and evinced pleasure at : - seeing the physician. For several yean V;' after the two animals remained in tho Zoo ;l ': and they always maiiifo?ted affection for the' ; doctor. "'ffg

women's fbanchisg. There is to bo exceptional activity dtirins " the coming Session of the British Parld mont on the part of the supporters of the movement for the Extension of Women's Franchise, Unhappy 'members are to be' incessantly " lobbied" on the question, and' unle33 "theysruile and smile andye'tati' villains" it ia anticipated that definite n ra i gro33 will have been made before Farliatneob again rises next autumn. The conductot the Parliamentary arrangements has beeii placed in the hands of a sub coramittoe' which has been appointed by tivo of tha principal Women's Suffrage Societies, Those membere of the House of Commons who already favour the movement are to b» urged to show their good faith by balloting for a day for a Bill immediately after the' opening of the Session. i;,, EIGHTEEN 3IORDERS BY ONE HAN. '"' ■ According to n despatch from Hunting." don, vVest Virginia, the citizens are quietly! arranging to lynch Captain Hatfield, »1 notorious desperado now under remand for , a series of atrocious murders. The governor, of the State has ordered the local authorities to take every measure which theymay deenr necessary to prevent mob interference with' ihe due conrse of justice. Hat Held is ander forty yeara of age, but ho has committed , ' certainly eighteen murders, and probably more. Hie last crime was committed oilelection day, November i, when he shot and" ■ killed in cold blood John Rutherford, aa inoffensive man, with whom he had a political argument ontside the polling place at Thacker, West Virginia. Upue tho same occasion Hatfield's stepson, a laS only fourteen years old, killed two men bv shooting them with a Winchester rifle. ,

DIVING FROM A TRAM, •;..-,'. ,1 'SE Burns, tho diver, who somo tioia' tab ;,; 11. was frustrated by railway officials m : ' hia " design to jump from tho top of 'a moving'" train into the Thames, but vowed a vow ';/:.• that he would perform tho feat in spite df'"' '■ all opposition, has fulfilled his intention, "■^ : ! selecting the same locality as before—the ' v - ''■-'" West London Extension Bridge, He anda > '•■ few friends again took tickets from Chelsea f - : ■ to Battersea, but this time the affair was '?- kept as quiet as possible, in order to pre , - ■ M vent the railway authorities from taking'.: 4 measures for preventing tho foolish and :;'? foolhardy leap. Nevertheless, a consider- Viable crowd of spectators, who had got the :)^-; tip, assembled on tho river bank at Batter- S" sea to witness the feat. When the trait «§ came steaming along Burns was seen sitting ."■' S.' on the top of a carriage in the. centra \COnce fairly on the bridge ho rose to his fee/ \ IB and, talcing a header over the parapet, fell : '-1? gracefully into the river. On rising to thi surface he struck out for a boat lying somf distance away, and was rowed ashore non M tho worse for his daring venture. ''. ; vgS A LONG-DEFEItRED REVENGK. ■ -' j At Newcastle Assizes Justice Granthani H passed sentence of death on George Ewarfc, ■ Ws sixty-four year* of age, joiner, for the wilful ' i;o murder of Daniel Gray, a painter, whom he , - shot dead in one of the main thoroughfares ;'-■ of the city of Newcastle on September 10. - In 188G Gray was imprisoned for assaulting i r , Jiivart. The latter, believing that justice ' i.'• had not been satisfied, had cherished a -: desire for revenge. Ho had, accarding to ,5;- • his own statement, carried a revolver for ;A f twelve years. Insanity was pleaded for the M% defence, but the medical evidence agree? X that the prisoner was capable of knowiot the nature of his act. The jurystfonglj recommended him to mercy on account of provocation which ho had received. , :*. '!■- BROTHERS CIIAEGKD WITH MtJKDER, ' ; J-f

Ac the Ulster Winter Assizes in Belfast, before Lord Chief Justice O'Brien, the second trial began of James and Thoinaji Magnire, two brothers, who were charged with the wilful murder of an extensive cattle dealer named William Ifunston, neat Trillick, County Tyrone, on March 9 last On tho morning of the above date Funston, after leaving Trillick Feir, was found dead on the highway, with his head battered in and abouG £'200 missing from his pockets. Suspicion fell upon the accused, who, it is alleged, were seen in the murdered man's company on the previous evening, and who were subsequently traced to Londonderry,' where they were about to take passage for. America. Thoy were arrested, and were . placed on their trial at the following Omagli Assizes, and after the case had lasted si? , days the jury disagreed. KKMAKKAHLE KLEOTIOM BEK. Somo remarkable bets on the recent' election in America are now being settled in tho different towns and cities. One man : had to have the fire-hose turned on hirafor • ten minutes. He managed to bravo it -for half the time, and then collapsed, He was taken home, and is now dangerously ill. Another respected citizen in one of the towns walked into church without any covering to his feet. The congregation thought lie had lost his wit?, and wore prepared to take him out of the church, when ho told the deacon that he was paying a debt, tho condition being that ho should go to church barefoot on the Sunday following tho election if Mr. McKinley won, Anothol individual was locked up for three hours in a refrigerator, while a fourth had to rollthree peanuts round a square before hi could satisfy the conditions of the bet h' had made. ' THE DDKE OF COBOF.G AN'D liIEOTEWSJ : DAN GODFKEY. j ; ';■ V The Duke of Coburg, at Clarence House, personally presented to Lieutenant P»« Godfrey, late Bandmaster of the Grenadier Guards, the Coburg Order of Arts and Sciences, in recognition of his eminent! sorvices in the musical art, and his distinguished connection with the Grenadier Guards for a period of forty years. Hie Royal Highness ab the same time intimating the Queen's gracious permission to Lieutenant Godfrey to accept; and wear it. Lieutenant Dan Godfrey was the recipient of another testimonial on his retirement from the' Grenadier Guards Band. Tho presentation, which was made by Sergeantmajor Garton on bohalf of the warrant officers and sorgeants of the regiment, torn the form of a handsome silver table lamp. and >vaa accompanied by the warmest ex•pressions of regret on tho part of the noncommissioned officers on • the retirement oi, , Mr. Godfrey from tho commend of the bend. - -. •' '"