NEWS ITEMS

Colonist, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8063, 6 October 1894, Page 4

NEWS ITEMS

(From our latest Exchanges.) An extraordinary discovery was made last week (saya late Perth paper) five rai!e3 from Bardock, ia the Ooolgardie district. Some prospectors osme upon a digger working a reef. They asked leave to inspect but were refused, and tbe digger offered to show them allovial ground which bis mate had found. He led them away ab^ut half a mile, and then told them to keep straight on. After a vain search they returned next morning to where they had first S9en him. The mm was gone. On examining the hole be had worked at (now filled in), they found a dead body. Tbe digger was a German or Swede, 6ft high, wellbuilt, atid about 14st in -weight, lhe discovery was reported to the police. The police, since they returned from Bardocb, state that a murder must have been committed beyond all doubt. When the man's body was exhamed it was found that a pick had been driven with terrific force olean through his skull, and tbe body tben huddled into the workings and roughly covered in with debris which had been lying around the pit's mouth. The mnrdeier has so far eluded the vigilance cf the police, but as he is & Lreiguer, and a perfect Hercu'es in appearance, his cap! ure is considered certain. | The Fijian for bsef h bulimakau, and it is derived from the English words bull and cow, The first cattle landed in Fiji causea grea* consiernaiiott amoogßt the natives. " What are those ? " said one to a Bailor. 11 That's 1& bull," replied the saibr. " What did yon call it," said another native. •• That's a cow," Slid anoth r sailor. Thus the words bull and cow became bslimakau.

Tbe Kumara « Times of October Ist says : — The records of Lie and and party's claim show that £22,000 worth of gold has been won sinca the claim was opened a little over ten years ago. The thrse last washings averaged the best. Mb Buchanan saya stations eff the track in the Wairarapa have to freqnent'y pat up 20 swaggers eaoh night. Sir R. Stout says that every miliion proposed to bs borrowed "wiU coat the country £35,000 to £40,000 il year by way of interest.

An Evangelical country clergyman, who is not distinguished for either t.ia. .pa?io.al activity or his preaching abili.y, was watching a Bhepherl in his parish, one day last week, folding his sheep, when the following conversation took place : -Evangelical Fareon : '• I wish my sheep wou'.d follow me ,aa thesa follow you." Shepherd : | " You should feed them, eu\"

The • Advocate ' has the following : Daring the strong wind last Wednesday three cowa and a bullock belonging to Mr T. A. Burne took shelter tinder a honeysuckle tree standiog in a small patch of shelter bash. The tree was blown over and all four of She cattle were killed.

A cabimet maker at the Petone RailWay Workshops is making a table two feet ia diameter, which is" already inlaid with 35,000 pieces of wood. Be has been at work at it twelve years already, and it is still unfinished. The design is geometrical. A cricket match between sixteen ladies of Suva (Fiji) and eleven members of the local Cricket Club (all bachelors) took place recently, the latter playing left-handed with broomsticks. Numerous oilier matchesmatrimonial—are now on the " tapis." ' Miss Dhanbai Fardorjsr Banajee, Bge3 eighteen years, Of Bombay, is the first woman to go from ladia to Paris fit art stady. She baa succee3e3 in having one of her pic.urea hung in the Paria salon.

A young woman name! Florence Bath Lewis (says the • Pall Mall Gazette ' until recently in the SerVies of a family at Sideap, has been discovered to b 3 the daughter of a gentleman. SLe wa^ abduoted by gipsies abiut 15 years ago ai Clifton Downs, Bear Bristol. Tbe gipdes, ha?iay taken some of the little girl's clothes, abandoned her by the roadside. She was fonnd by a lady named Clarke, who took her to Netf" York, adopting her, and forbidding any reference (o her home at Clifton. For 10 years at so the girl lived with Mrs Clarke as ho? daughier, bub never forgetting her o'd home, b'ubacqnently she made the mayor of Ciifton acquainted with her history, aud in consequence was found a pißEage home to Bris'ol, only to find, however, tint her parents, after mikirg most exhanstive efforts to trace her, hid gone away from Clifton and left no address behind ihern. the then went into service, and cow, af?er anoher two ytars, h?r father ba^ been found living at Cardiff, her mo htr Laving died heartbroken at tha mysterious loss of he? only child. An English paper publishes aa advertisement ut-der the headiog of " Fi'Bth. air for poor children " — for 10a eub bribed, a pale faaed child can enjoy a count y holiday for a fortnight. One half of tbe world does net know how the other half livep. i»T the Prabraa (Melbourne) Polie9 Cturt, a young msn was recently sentenced to twelve mouths imprisonment for stealiug th ea bicycles, left by their owners sg^insfc the kerb ia front of offices <• "Why, Georgie," said a girl to her liLtle trcther, I've just heard that yon were whipped at achool last we;k. I had no idea of it ti 1 ma told me a few minotss ago." " Eadn't you ?" responded Gecrgie, and then he added with an air of piide, " Why, I knew it at the time." Mlle, Paulina, of Holland, is probably the liniesis woman on tha p'anet. Bha is eighteen years old, weighs less than ni c ponndd, and lacks four inches of bdug as high aa a two-foot rule.

Da Legtubn (expounding a discoursß oi St Paul'e) : TVe will now take the Apostlea's ttrte heads one by onr. Little Boy (whispering to his mother): Ob, mamma, DrLegfcnrn is going fco tell a giant story. A flower is said to have been dia» covered in Bouth America which is ody risible when the wind blows. The fchrnb balongs to the cactus family and is about three feet high. The stem is covered with diad, watery looking lumps ia calm weather. These lumps, however, need bat a Blight breeze to make them unfold large flowers of a c.eamy white, which clote and appear dead as eo?u &8 the wind subsides. The Ty:er Company, following fie example of other big ehippiug com-

parties, has under consideration the advisability of baiidiog two large cargo steamers for the Now Zealand trade. It is currently reported that the fice White Star cargo etearnsr Kunic will shortly bo placed in the New Zealand trade, but the agents in the Colony have cofc yet received sn intimation on the subject. Lobd Enesell, of KilloweD, is already winning golden opinions aB Lord Chief Justice at tbe Law Conrta, both from the members of tbe Bar and the parties to the various causes. He is declared, indeed, by counsel, to be a pattern of b)1 jadges in his quick and effective methods of de^l ng with the short-cause list in trials wi hont juries. In Holland the peasant girl who is without a * beau ' at fair time hires a young iran for the occasion. Aa good dancers command a high price, two maidens sometimes club together to employ the same swain, ! Our characters are formed an 3 sustained by oureelvee, by onr own actions and purposes, and cot by others. Let us always bear in mind that • { calumniators may usually ba trastsd to time aud the slow bat steady jnstice of public opinion."

An extraordinary " lusus naturore " is reported from Beach, pambridgaBhire. A French or Persian cat. the property of Mr David Badoook, a publican residing in the village, has recently baen found to possess two wings, resembling those of a duckling. The pheaomecon was not suspec ed, owing to its long hair, until, being roughly handled, it spread oat its wings. It is about tW6he months old.

It is reported that at a ohnreh in Ellis County, Tex-je, recently, a man was sbati end killed. " Now, look here," said the preaohtr, pausing a moment, " I must insist tbat there be co further interruptions. How do you suppose a man can go on preaching when you annoy Liin in this way. In the twinkling of an eye walla oi brick and stone will be ecat'.ered Lither and thi'her, and earthquakes will be felt en November 1011, but the day of the Lord does not then appear. — Thus Mr 0. Golder the Waipawa prophet.

When Lord Randolph Chnrchill wag last in America he visited Philadelp hia and, while there, Eet about collecting statistio3 relating to the Bite prisons. He was referred to the bead of the State Prisons Board, Mr Obadwallader Biddlo. Before calling, Lord Eand lph fell into the hand 9 of some wags of the Union League Club. " You've got the name wrorg," said one, "Its not Ghadrcallader BidJle, bat Bidcalladsr Wa-ldle." "Don't mind what li 9 say 3, Lord Bandolph," ex« claimed auothGr ; " the real name ia Wadbillader Caddie." A third member took his lordsbip aside Bud told him in confidence that he was be'ng golled on all side?. " What then ia the actual name ?" he a_ske3. •» The actual name," confided his false friend "is Widbollader Diddle." When Lord Randolph drove to the Prisons Board that evening, be was co apseS that he stammered, " Will you take this card to Me Bid— cad— wid— wad — did— dollader, Whatshienania ?— I mean the Chief of the Board, bat 1 forget his extraordinary aomenclatoral combination." Mr Cadwaliader Bidd'e himself, who has been recantly etaying in London, tells the story. A lad? lion-tamer, youug and fair 9 beckoned to the big lion, atd it cima and to?k a piece of sugar out of her mouth. " Why, I conld do that trick," exclaimed a spectator. " What you ?"'' retorted the fair performer 11 Certainly— just as well as the !ion 1"

The Mount Drysdalo Gold Mining Company, near Oobar, in New South Wales, baa declared another dividend of £20 per share, bsing £98 per Bhare d:clarad in dividends on 128 char in twt'lva months aad three wtek3.