NEWS ITEMS.

Colonist, Volume XLIV, Issue 10138, 28 June 1901, Page 4

NEWS ITEMS.

A telegram in the London ' Daily Express ' from Marseilles stale 3 that a little girl, only nine ye«*rs of age, committed suicide because her mother scolded her for eating with her fingers. When her mother reproved her she left tbe tuble, ran into the kitchen, and cut her throat from ear to ear with a table knife.

As a result of a raid made at Brooklyn by eeeret service agents, the plates for making counterfeit £20 notes of the Bank of Scotland, which the British -detective service has been vainly seeking for years, were secured.

Lames ! — Pabkeb's Haib Tokic will for a certainty cure Dandruff and Falling Hair It renders hair soft and glossy, and is not greasy. Sold by J. Boon, Nelson, Price 2/6, posted 3/ It is stated that a strenuous attempt is being made by some enterprising Norwegians to popularise reinder flesh as an article of diet in Europe. The experiment of raising the animals in large numbers for slaughtering will be fairly tried. They expect to find profitable markets in France and Belgium, and will even endeavor to induce beefeating Britons to purchase the article.

The experiment of taxing bachelors is actually to be tried in Pennsylvania, U.S. 4. It is cot, as most people believe, an unprecedented fiscal device, for it was tried both in England and Holland at the end of the seventh century* Fiscal history records that the yield from the tax, considerable to begin with, rapidly diminished, and that its consequences were more pleasing to spinsters than to Chancellors of the Exchequer.

The editor of the Siam ' Free Press' at Bangkok, Piam, is an Irishman, Michael O'Leary Dempsey, who comes from Clonakilty, in the neighborhood of which many of his friends and relatives still live. Fifteen years ago he went East as a teacher. " .

Yon can depend on 'ridding your children of worms with WADE'S WORM FIGS, the wonderful worm worriers. 'Price Is.

A Sotjthebn paper localises th. following ancient yarn in the.JETortymile Bush : A certain local vestry lately debated the question whether or not a chandelier should be purchased for the public hall. "Well, gentlemen," at length put in one.of the economy members, " it's all very well for you to talk of wasting the ratepayers' money on a chandelier, but what I wants to know is, when you've got it, who's a-going to play on it ? " He is still waiting for a reply. An elderly ■ native, well dreseed, with a huia feather in his hat, and luggage in portmanteau, approached the station-master at Grey town the other day. "Igo to Botorua, see te Tuke " he announced, " Parata leafe ticket for me?" The official replied that it was so. " First-class," was the next query, " No, second,'' was the answer. " Oh, too long to sit on te hard seat," exclaimed the old fellow. " All te rangatira up there go flrst-class, I no go," and he returned homeward in indignation.

WADE'S TEETHING POWDERS for babies are soothing, reduce fever, and prevent blotches. Price Is.

The South Australian Government accepted a tender of £2265 for illuminating the public buildings at Adelaide on the occasion of the Boyal visit.

A PBCTJLiAK mouse has been found in some of the trees in the Casterton (Vie.) district. Its peculiarity is in its having a distinctly feathered tail of a black and white or plaid color.

The following calculation is published by a correspondent in the London • Daily News' : — "Let us assume that the average weight of a Boer is list. This is equivalent to 1.078,000 grains, or to 22480z Troy. The lowest quality of gold is the 9-carat, which is worth 81s an ounce. From this it will follow that the value of a Boer's weight in gold is about d.3484. The Boer forces were estimated at 50,000. So that the value of the Boer Army's weight in gold v £174,200,000. This is just about the actual cost of the war up 4)0 the present time.

WADE'S WORM FIGS are most effective and not unpleasant ■ children thrive after taking them Price Is- «££

Sir Thomas Lipton has recently given to the -world his recipe for success in business. The advice is characteristic of the man who offers it, and it excellent. He says: — " Work hard ; deal honestly ; exercise care and judguieaL ; advertise freely and judiciously." «• The most pathetic figure in this war," writes " An Englishwoman in Pretoria," in the Outlook, " is poor Mrs Kruger. She is a real good sort 1 She implored the old man not to have war and cried bitterly when he declared it. When the British entered Pretoria, of course, they mounted guards at the Presidency, as well as at other buildings, but in a day or two Lord ' Bobs ' removed them, and put tbe usual Boer sentries at the Presidency. The low Boer women went and abused the old lady frightfully for her husband's actions, and led her such a life that the poor old soul sent and asked Lord » Bobs ' to replace Lhe sentries to protect her from her own people. And British sentries are stifl to be seen in front of the Presidency, and the old dame is very good to them, sending them out coffee and Dutch cookies. Tbe Tommies speak quite affectionately to her, and I think Mr Kruger's action in leaving her, though he took the gold, upset them more than anything else did."