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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1751, 27 September 1905, Page 71

Madeline Asp inwall, a nurse, wa© at Leeds Assizes found guilty of matricide, and ordered to he detained during his Majesty's pleasure a© a criminal lunatic. She poisoned her mother( to whom she was deeply devoted) to prevent her removal to a lunatic asylum. Mr Robert Davies, of Bangor, ha© sent a donation of .£IO,OOO towards the Centenary Fund of the British and Foreign Bible Sbciety. This munificent gift leaves only <£7,000 now to be raised in. order to complete the needed quarter of a million guineas/. A second steamer is about to be placed upon Lake Titicaca, which is 12,000 ft above the sea level in the Andres or Peru. The first steamer., which was built by Earless, at Hull, was) sent out' piecemeal, and is now" being reconstructed upon the shore© of the lake. The Army Council has decided that the title “Brigadier** shall be a rank a© well as a grading for pay. It will be used in the «£tme maimer as the rank of “BrigadieivGener?d** has been used hitherto, and will iso local or temporary only.