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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XII, Issue 2374, 2 June 1906, Page 7

Hydrophobia, which lias gradually : been .stamped out in England, still | nourishes in most Continental counI tries. Germany tops the list and . France is next. During the hearing of an assault j ease at Lincoln it was admitted that j the plaintiff, a woman, called dcfenI dant “ a giddy, white-livered, nari row-nosed, pink-eyed cuckoo." The case was dismissed. For kissing a stranger in a nio- | ment of exuberance an eighteen yearold waitress at Tetschen has been sentenced to fourteen days’ imprison- | ment. The West Sussex Education Committee is going to have the village children taught the life history of i t roes and the general growth of I t i in her. The Birmingham police have roj covered a heavy bar of silver which fell from a railway lorry while being conveyed through the streets of the city. The man who picked it. up thought it was I in, and sold it for eight police. At Aston, the fi.-st prosecution in connection with betting on loot hall results took place. I’hilip Palmer, commission agent, was summoned for “assembling’’ at Aston Cross for the purpose ol betting on football. The defrndan' was seen to receive a number of papers from people on i the nay to the Villa ground, and , these were loiiud to bear the names of football teams playing on that day. The defendant was lined i's and costs.