Imprisoned for beating a Girl.

Colonist, Volume XL, Issue 8747, 22 December 1896, Page 3

Imprisoned for beating a Girl.

Auckland, December 21.

David Yeale, aged 18, was sentenced to a months imprisonment without the option of b fine for boating a girl Darned Millioont Craig.

Continuation of New see fourth Fage

At Trieste three experienced divers are just now engaged upon a highly interesting task. In 1811 a terrible explosion took place in the harbor there, the causes of which have never been explained. Much loss of life ancl property was caused, and the Dante, a French fr'gate, Was sunk. The divers soon ascertained /be position of the hull, but all efforts to raise it have since been in vain. The vessel contains £120,000 in gold, and the valuable jewels of a French princess The French Government, moreover, have offered a high price for any gung that may be recovered. The divers j now at work have succeeded in laying bare a part of the ship's skeleton, ancl they hope to raise it with a crane. Mr Wm Robinson, one of the best known journalists of the North, for many years a member of the reporting staff of the ' New Zealand Herald,^ died the other day from cancer of the throat, aged 50. In the early days of Thames goldflelds he was on (he staff of the • Thames Advertiser. 1

Bib John Mclntyre, the leader of the Victorian Opposition, mentions the fact of his living in a tent on Canvas Town, 44 years ago, and recalls the romantic incident of writing his first love letter to the girl he had left behind in Scotland, on an empty gin case. Sir John's claims to knightI hood dates from the time when • he was seven times Mayor of Bendigo, and gave a great fete in honour of tha Duke of York's visit, but it remained for Lord Hopetoun to tardily reward the loyal Scotchman. Originally Bi* John Mclntyre was a chemist ac Bendigo, and in the early days of the goldfields he acted a" assayer for the Bank of Victoria. A Maldon mine which he floated in London a few years ago, for £150,000 has given fcir John independence.

Soue Lowestoffc fishermen relate a tale of haying seen a sea serpent off the coast recently. The monster was observed a few miles off, and all "who sighted it agree with their description of it. They are positive they labored under no optical illusion. The closest view was obtained by the lugger Conquest, belonging to Banff. While all the crew of eight men were on deck, shortly after six o'clock, they heard on their lee quarter, a loud noiee resembling a large steamer cutting her way through the water- Looking in that; direction, they saw a huge serpent only twenty yards distant. They state that the monster was fully 800 ft long, and moved along at the rate of about eight miles an hour. It resembled three enormous half circles in line, each being fifty feet long and 10ft high, and there was room between l each of them for the lugger to have passed. Still making the same noise it passed close under the boats's stern. All tbe men watched it and it was in sight for fully a quarter of an hour. They describe it as like a fishing boat turned upside down, and equally as large in girth.

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