A FATAL ROW.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXII, Issue 7272, 4 May 1895, Page 4

A FATAL ROW.

Sydney, April 25.

A young man named Charles Falconer, 66 years of age, and a resident of '141, Toung street. Annand ale, died at Prince Alfred Hospital this morning, under peculiar circumstances. He was brought into the hospital yesterday afternoon in a semi-conscious condition, and his friends who brought him to the institution stated that he was struck on the head with a stone during a row which took place on Saturday. He was taken home and attended* by a doctor, who yesterday ordered his removal to the hospital, where he lingered until this morning. The police only heard of the matter shortly before noon, as the row was hushed up. Inquiries are now being made by an vf&cvr from heicbhitdt,

Ab the Bathursb (New South Waleß) Circuit Court on Thursday last, William David Owen was charged with stealing £872, the property of the Joint Stock Bank, at Sunny Corner, while engaged as a clerk in that bianch. Mr Walter Tattam, the manager, deposed that one day laßt November, on his return from luncheon, he found cash and notes scattered on the floor of the bank, and Owen lying in the manager's room apparently unconßcious. Subsequently the police found notes to the value of £50 concealed ia Owen's boots. .After being questioned, Owen had admitted that he had planned the apparent robbery for a joke in order to scare the manager, but he had declared that he had no intention to appropriate the money. At the trial the same defence waa set up. Testimonials of excellent character were read from the bank officials and others. The jury returned a verdict of acquittal. When discharging Owen the judge advised him never to attempt such a practical joke again. His Honor had never heard of such a joke, and one might almost think that the verdict was a practical joke also. The multiplication of creameries in Ireland has given a great impetus to the butter trade of that country, because the general quality of the produce has ;been raised. Mr Gibson, of Limerick, a well known butter merchant, in his annual report just issued, estimates that fully 97,000 tons of butter were made in Ireland last year, worth at least L 7,250,000. But he is not by any means satisfied, for he contends that Ireland could carry double the number of milch cows, and turn out more than double her production of butter, making it all the year round, and giving employment to her I whole population not otherwise engaged, instead of driving numbers to emigrate. Possibly, but the question is whether the increase would pay. If prices are likely to be in future anything like as low as they have been this season there is not much temptation to go in for winter dairying. By some figures drawn from the accounts of a dairy farmer, Mr Gibson shows that the use of the cream separator has resulted in more than LI a cow increase in a year, comparing the returns with those obtained a year before, when the old system of skimming was pursued. We read sometimes in novels about a woman bii"g maid, wife and widow" all in a single day, bub such a thing is rarely, if ever, lumrd of as an actuality. An instance of this sort is reported by the New York correspondentof the Melbourne Age. Mr Hobarb, a broker in New York, was married to Miss Petit, at the house of the lattex's parents. The couple intended to start the following morning on their wedding tour, and concluded to spend the first evening of their married life in a visit to a theatre. Accordingly Mr Hobart scoured tickets for one of the theatres, and the couple were on hand at the rising of the curtain. Near the close of the last act Mr Hobarb gave a cry of pain, and fell from his seat to the floor. He received medical attention, but died within 20 minutes of the time when he was first stricken, and his wife, now his widow, was thrown into paroxysms of grief, and finally fell fainting to the floor. The married life of the unfortunate couple covered only a period of eighb hours. Public attention has been attracted according to a London despatch to the JNew York Sun, March 16, to two ecclesiastical precepts from high authorities. Archbishop Walsh has established a new qualification for holiness. He has issued a regulation in his diocese, in which he directs: "No one, child or adult, shall be admitted to confirmation or instruction in preparation for it, who has nob been vaccinated, or who, having reached the age of seven years, has not recently been vaccinated." The Archbishop of York sent a letter enjoining on the clergy a greatly diminished übb of tobacco and other acts of self-denial during the Lenten season. The authoress of " Uncle Tom's Cabin," who is approaching her 84th birthday, was the subject of a melancholy despatch from Hartford, Conn., on March 24th, The venerable lady has been growing mentally weaker every day, until now there is barely a flioker of reason in her once bright mind. She is childish and happy, and sings over and over again the hymns she warbled in her school days seventy years ago. A duel has been fought in: Paris between M. Catulle Mendeß, the well-knowh French journalist and writer, and M. Huret. The duel was the outcome of a quarrel betwpen them. M. Huret queried whether Mendea' relations with Oscar Wilde were ot a purely literary character. , .