NEWS BY THE MAIL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1551, 10 February 1887, Page 4

NEWS BY THE MAIL.

Sir Julius Von Haast, according to a Home paper, spent his Christmas at Bonn, and was much better at date, of writing. . A suicide of an extraordinary and terrible nature'has come to light at an inquest held at Kemerton, Tewkesbury, on the remains of' Samuel Adams,‘ forty, a head gardener. It appeared that the wretched, man dug his own graye, placed in, it ai quantity of wood, Wjhichbe sosiked with benzoline,, and ( then, lying down jn it, set the whole oh; fire. .A verdict of temporary insanity, was returned. At an inquest held at Bolton : on recently, upon the, body of a youth named Edward Marsdan, who lost his life on Sunday' afternoon while endeavoring to rescue a: fellow-skater who had fallen through the i ice, the mother of the deceased stated that she had earnestly requested him not to venture upon the ice, as she had dreamed that he, would be brought home-drowned, but that notwithstanding her warning,, he had concealed his skates, and instead of going to school went skating. A shocking murder was committed at Nottingham on Tuesday, the victim being Mary Terry, wife of Benjamin Terry, a collier. Both are young people, and their married life has not been happy. Terry had recently accused his wife,of infidelity, and it is said that circumstances arose which confirmed his suspicions. While in bed he deliberately strangled her by compressing her windpipe with his fingers. After she was dead Terry rose and dressed himself, and then went and informed the police of what he had done. One of the smartest things in advertising that has lately been heard of has been achieved by a furniture dealer at Providence, Ebode Island, who offered a bedroom suite to any couple who would come and be married in his shop window. The only difficulty he seems to have had was in making a selection out of the scores of couples who applied for the honor. The event finally came off with the utmost satisfaction to all parties, thousands of people witnessing the ceremony from the street, and the interior of the shop. Easting men are on the increase, for no sooner does one finish ids task than another begins. The latest addition to the brood, writes the Paris, correspondent of the Telegraph, is an individual who has begun a fast of seventy-two days at Philipville, in Algeria. Salvator Mortabelli, a Maltese, is the hero of this adventure. He affirms that he was formerly, a sailor in the British Navy, and that the ship to which he belonged having been wrecked, he was cast ashore on a dpsert island, and held out two months 'and eleven days without eating anything. A committee has been appointed in due form to keep watch and ward over the fasting man, who backs himself to carry at the conclusion of the experiment a large sack of barley over a certain amount of ground. The Blood family, who have been so much in evidence lately, are a co. Clare family of rather small estate, whom man ignores among the great landowners of the United Kingdom, and Burke disregards in his marshalling of the country families. Briokhill, not very far from Limerick, is the name of thefamily territory, which has no manor house upon it. Beauty (the fatal gift of beauty, as Byron puts it) seems to be somewhat of a family heritage, for poor Mrs Bolton —Lady Colin’s sister—was a beautifully statuesque lady of large proportions. She will long be remembered in Meath, where she hunted for port of a season, the guest of her cousin, Sir Thomas Besketb, at Somerville. What is said to be the largest cargo of wheat ever curried by one vessel was re? ceived in Liverpool the other day. It consisted of 200,000 bushels, weighing about 5100 tons, and was brought from Bombay by Messrs E. Bates and Son’s new steamer Joan. This enormous quantity of Ea*t Indian wheat, together with 230 tons of cotton, also included in tfio cargo, was landed in the Waterloo grain warehouses ia tweniy-lhree hours.