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Temuka Leader, Issue 4016, 26 February 1903, Page 3

There was a heavy* thunderstorm at Feilding yesterday morning. An elderly man named ivloKie, living at Olive, Napier, and who has been suffering, from i Ihealth for some time past, attempted to commit suicide on Monday afternoon, by cutting his throat with a razor. It is expected he will recover. The Premier offers through the New Zealand Literary Association a £3 3s prize for a short story on the early Otago, West Coast, or Thames goldfields. An Auckland convict named Lee, working at tree-planting at Waiotapu, made a dash for liberty on Sunday night. He was soon recaptured, however. Madame Melba appeared at the Wellington Opera House on Monday last, and received a great ovation, eqallihg the receptions accorded the diva at Dunedin apd Christchurch. About £ISOO was *paid for admission to the theatre. According to the London Meat Trades’ Journal chilled New Zealand beef is called Union Jack in London restaurants, “because cut it where you will, it’s red white and blue.” Mr E. Barley, proprietor of the Alexandra Dairy (says the Philiatua Herald) has a large area of land planted with cabbages for cow fppd He has been in the habit of giving cabbages to stock for over several years, and speaks highly cf the effects of the diet. ■ A pine tree at Sundrmgham, JN.b.W.. under which three men v ere laki n.v shelter from a storm, was shattered by lightning, and one cf the men, ■William Kemp,, was killed instantly. The others escaped. . A striking vindication of romance comes from North London, where an elderly man was recently certified to have died from a broken heart, a method of disease which is generally supposed to be fictitious. Iho romance of the epistle was, however, somewhat marred, by the doctor who certified it remarking that (loath by a broken heart “ sometimes happened to washerwomen.” WADES’ WORM FIGS.-Thp wonderful worm worriers, are always effective. Is boxes everywhere.

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