Two little children were overtaken by the .advancing tide at Dieppe and drowned. ■ One of the last requests which Hobart Papha made to his wife was, “ Let my grave bi in Turkey.” The widow, a young Englishwoman of only 27 years, accompanied the remains of the deceased to Constantinople, returning directly afterwards to England.
The Pall Mall Gazette has been investigating the subject of literature and matrimony, and finds that the most successful authors have been husbands and fathers, and that authors who have remained single have done so as a matter of choice, not of necessity. The War Office has directed that the engine and eight carriages which were intended for the Suakim-Berber railway, and which have been lying at Key ham for some months, are to be conveyed to Tregantle to be employed on the line in course of construction to connect all the outlying forts forming tho defences of Plymouth.
An amnsing case was heard before the Broxton (Cheshire) magistrates lately. The defendant and complainant were two .young* Cheshire farmers.' The complainant was George Parcer,* and the defendant Thomas Price. Young Parcer had been accustomed to court Price’s sister, who is a young and comely widow. Either his hours or his conduct did not commend themselves to Price, who ordered Parcer to keep away. The charms of the young widow, were, however, too strong, and he was again caught in the farmyard by Price at nine o’deok at night., A peculiar scene ensued. Price, to use the language of one of the witnesses, “first walloped his sister and then turned his attention to Parcer, whom he struck with his fist between the eyes.” In cross-examination complainant said he had been aceustomed to visit Pareer’s sister. He went early enough, and then Bat on the pump until she found it convenient to come to him. (Loud laughter. ) He admitted that on one occasion it; was midnight when she found it convenient; to come. Upon this the Magistrate dismissed the case, remarking that he had no right there after being warned off. Something New in Coaching.— From the announcement in our, columns ‘ The Wonder’ Coach, it will be ‘seen that Dr. Rumney (of Ridge's Food fame) is preparing * a new sensation ’ for his Colonial and American friends this year; in view of the influx of visitors to the Cplonial Exhibition; i.e., he will drive a team of six horses up Holywell Hill, St. Albans, thus adding a new attraction to a trip which always possessed the charm of a fine road through beautiful country, and the opportunity of visiting the cathedral, which is one of the finest specimens of ancient architecture in the world.
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 769, 26 November 1886, Page 20
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