The Patea County Press, (With which is incorporated The Patea Mail.) "Be Just and Fear Not." WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 1895. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Patea Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 53, 1 May 1895, Page 2

The Patea County Press, (With which is incorporated The Patea Mail.) "Be Just and Fear Not." WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 1895. LOCAL AND GENERAL

A found dog and lost brooch are adver- | tised in this issue. i Tenders for rc-dccking the Patea I Station Bridge close at noon on Monday j next, 6th iust. Nominations for the election of six ' commissioners to the Patea East Road Board close on Saturday next at noon, l Captain Edwin wires to day : Indica- | tions strong north-east to north and west winds, with rain, and glass falling. Nominations for the election of five members for the Whenuakura-Waitotara Road Board, six members for the Wairoa Road Board, and five members for the j Kohi Road Board close at Mr Fookes’ office, Waverley, at noon to-morrow. ; Nominations for the election of seven ' commissioners to the Patea West Road | Board will be received at the Board’s j office, Patea, up till noon of to-morrow, and at the Town Hall, Kakaramea, from 9 a.m. till noon on Friday. Mr W. McKenzie, the popular Scotch singer, who accompanied Miss Bessie Doyle on her New Zealand tour, noti- , tics that lie will give a concert hero on I Tuesday next. As Mr McKenzie’s last visit will be fresh in the memory of all. it is unnecessary to refer to him further, At the inquest on Miss Elizabeth Brittles, found dead in a house in Now ton street, Auckland, medical evidence was given to the effect that deceased died of inflammation of the chest, but otherwise a healthy woman. The jury were not convinced, and returned an open verdict of found dead with no marks of violence, hut how or when she came by her death there was no evidence to show.

On Sat irday evening, a horsebox on the Foxton train left,tbo tails while crossing the bridge over the Oroua River. The box bumped along over the sleepers held up by the couplings, the one side beingsuspendod clear. The marks on the sleepers are easily seen for nearly one hundred yards. The box was being used for the first time. The damage to the road was soon repaired, and after a delay of an hour and a half the train paocoedcd without further mishap. “ Zamiel,” in the Auckland Star, writes —The revelations of this week at the Police Court show an undercurrent of evil in this community that is really dis | trussing, and gives rise to tho thoughts 1 whether just at present foreign missions | should be abandoned, and all religious ■ forces concentrated on tho work of puri--1 flcath'ii at home before preaching abroad. Real solid rescue work is wlmt is wanted, and here is a field that might give more beneficial results to the community than even women’s political operations. HuvelyJ such young women as some of those who appeared this week in Court—mere girls in short dresses—are capable of being reclaimed and saved from the frightful consequences that a life of .such a character involves. It should not be foi got ten that the male associates of these girls me the ones most to blame, and, therefore, tho victims are deserving of all sympathy from their purer sisters, whose lines have ifolßn in more nkaeant plate*:,

Messrs F. E. Jackson and Co.’s usual fortnightly sale at Waverley takes place on Monday next. List of present entries will be found in another column. I They do'not m can thesame.— Father —“ I I am sure that you had better not marry him. He is too easy going.” Daughter | (greatly surprised).—“ Easy going! I’m j sure if you could see the struggle it is for I him to say good night you would not ! think it easy for him to go.” j Notice is given elsewhere of a concert [ and dance in the Alton Public Hall in aid | of the Crieket Club’s funds. If the weather j keeps right there will be a large gathers I ing, notwithstanding the very high charge j for an after-concert dance, when the start 1 must be late and the floor a bit off.

A gold medal weighing no less than two pounds, was presented by the American firm, Morgan and Wright, to H. C. Tyler, cyclist, who held the unpaced mile record J(2 min. 7 2-oth sees.) at the end of the year. The actual wilne of the gold was over £IOO, and the workmanship cost £2O. This is undoubtedly the most magnificent medal on record. The case, Butcher v. Bichardson, which was opened in the S.M. Court yesterday morning, at hulfspast eleven, occupied the bench until eleven o’clock at night, when it was adjourned until a quarter to nine this morning. At half past ten it was again adjourned until Friday, at eleven o’clock, as the S.M. had to take the sitting at Hawera to-day and to morrow. At a lion taming performance, given for the entertainment of the pupils at the Jesuit seminary at Triente in the (Southern Tyrol. The lion tamer on entering the cage containing three lions and one tiger accidentally stumbled, when the tiger instantly rushed upon him. On seeing this, the tamer’s wife quickly entered the cage, and courageously seize! the beast by the throat. The man and his wife both succeeded in getting out without much further difficulty, but the tamer bad already received fatal injuries. The Figaro is responsible for the following story : M. X, called the other day at a house where the love of dogs was carried almost to a mania,. Ho was immediately surrounded by half a dozen of these animals, to whose caresses, too demonstrative altogether, ho replied vigorously. “ Ah, monsieur,” said the lady of the mansion, in a tone of displeasure, “ one can see very well that you don’t love dogs.” “Not love dogs, indeed!” he retnrnedindignantly. '‘Why, I ate more than twenty during the seige of Paris,”

A woman named Marie Ilevesy described as young and good-docking, was lately arrested at Pocska, in Hungary, charged with complicity in the commission of various cold-blooded murders for hire. She has already confessed that she recently I herself murdered a peasant whose wife, 1 wanting to get rid of him, paid her 100 florins for putting him out of way. It has further been proved that Hevesy has been acting as a sort of agent between peasant women tired of tbeir husbands and certain professional murderers. She was found out through, the depositions of a discharged convict who had been in prison for Id years, and whom she had hired to do away, not only with two wealthy parents, but also with her own sister in-law. This man disclosed the crimes to the authorities, and an oflicial inquiry demonstrated the fact that the intended murders were ordered by the wives of the doomed peasants. The killing of husbands has long been a crime of frequent occurrance among the Hungarian peasantry. A duel took place in the environs of Paris on a recent Friday morning which resulted in the death of M. Henri Percher, the journalist who has caused such a sensation lately by his letters to the Journal des Debates from Cairo. A dispute recently arose between M. Percher andM. Chatelier, a mining engineer, upon French colonial questions. The affair culminated in a letter written by M. Percher to M. Chatelier, which the latter found to be! insulting, and he demanded satisfaction accordingly. Swords were used in the duel, and in the first round M. Percher was wounded just under the right shoulder his opponent’s sword perforating the right lung from side to side. Mr Percher fell nnconscionus, and died within a minute. The duel took place in a dancing-room at the Moulin Rouge, where the sloping floor gave M. Chatelier a slight advantage. The body was placed on a billiard-table, the police were called in, and friends went to proparcthe mother and widow of the dead man for the terrible nows, saying that be l had been wounded, and was being tended at the office of his paper.