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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume X, Issue 2034, 14 November 1883, Page 2

Last year it was the fashion to repeat that " The Assyrian came down like a wolf on the fold." This year we have no doubt that we shall hear innumerable bad puns on Martini- Henri's name. Indeed, we notice that even ai something like lOd a word the Press Association's special correspondent cannot forbear cabling all the way from Melbourne that " Martini-Henri came out of the crowd like a shot from a gim." Racing people are nearly always superstitious, and we shall probably soon have horaes named Chassepot, Snider, Needle, and perhaps Purdey, Lankester, Greener, &c. Racing and racing matters are now (says an Ofcago paper) uppermost in the public thoughts. A good many of our citizens have gone up to Chmtchurch to the races, and those left behind car. talk of little else. We might be permitted to aak how many of these people really know or care anything about racing or horses — and yet they eagerly devour over a column of description of a race run 1300 miles away from Dunedin, and for a brief space act and speak as if MartiuiHenri's win were more important to them than the rise in the price of meat. Our cablegrams yesterday reported the arrest of the Salvationist Knowxes, who confessed to the murder of the actor Bates, whose lifeless body was found some three years ago, in the vicinity of Melbourne, lying in a ditch. By whom the poor fellow met his death has, up to the present time, been a, mystery. That ho had been murdered there was no doubt. Whether the confession now made is true, or the result of a disordered brain produced by religious excitement, must be left to the course of justice to determine. The hearing of the charge has been adjourned for a week. A cablegram received today says that doubts as to the man's sanity exist.