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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XL, Issue 13171, 3 September 1913, Page 9

! T&e '• Timaru Po&t reports that an attempt was recently made by a resident of Timaru to commit suicide, and that the hearing 1 of a' charge, which is pending, will provoke considerable interest. For Chronic Chest Coinplaints, Woods' Great Peppermint Cure. 1/6 and 2/6 * ; The Duchess of 'Mancbfister has introduced to London society a new American dance entitled the "fish-walk." ■ She has been giving a number of "dancing teas," at which the new dance was explained and exemplified. It is described as follows by its inventory Mr. Uriel Davis : "To do the fish-walk' properly you must practise skipping -upstairs, then adopt that, .same - skipping step on the ballroom floor, doing it forward eight counts and reverse eight counts. Then do the sliding step to the side, twice as fast as m the 'one-step* for four counts. Continue with the skipping step sa before." Sweet Slice GOLDEN EAGLE. TOBACCO pleases every smoker. Cool, mild, delicious— it won't burn the tongue. Try a tin. There's nothing to equal it.* The Liverpool-owned steamer Maaorese struck off the South Stack on July 20th, and went down with the loss of four lives. The Board of Trade inquiry shows tliat tho man at the helm at the. time of the .wreck was a .Spaniard, Jose Alvarado, who simply could not understand English. He gave his evidence through an interpreter, and stated that when the articles were read over to him he did not understand them. One of the assessors, with great temerity, asked Alvarado whether he would undesrstand if he were asked to steer a course "south- west by south," but Alvarado did . not. . understand what was being said, and the stipendiary remarked m disgust^ "Just fancy putting a man like this to steer adhip/' Alv-_r?w_o could not underst-_nd»at,a|l.when h6 waa asked to mark) a certain course on the compass, card, and the. magistrate remarked, "He has no idea of it at all." The Board of Trade representative said- he must have known more than it seemed for he had- been so long. on thepe ships, and the owners' representative said the man had to pass a Board of Trade e-camina-tion m English. The Court was plainly astonished at thia evidence of foreign manning of British ships.