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Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8269, 15 September 1888, Page 3

There have been twenty-six suicides from tbe Clifton Bridge in England in the twenty-four years since it wns bnilt. The jump is 250 feet and death is, presumably easy, which a, counts for the popula-ity of the route. The laßt person who went over it was a yonng nan who was to be married in a week. , " The other day," writes a Liverpool correspondent of a London paper, " a wellmannered and exquisitely dressed female m>ved abont in tbe church among the lady gaests at a society weddinpr, telling each confidentially that she was the representative of a society journal, when all the while ehe was intent on thieving. 'Of course, 1 adds the paper, ( every facility wus given her ; she examined as many dresses as she cared to. 1 For was not the dress going to be described in a society journal — material, colour, style, everything which would excite tbe admiration and envy of those who care to read about such things ? 'You shall receive a proof,' said the 'wellmannered and exquisitely dressed female ' to her dupes: and how pleasant to be able to correct any mistakes before the journal was printed and found its way into society I But the actual 4 proofs ' that a thief's hand had been in their pockets were far more difficult to ' correct ' than the literary < proofs ' of some eminent writer, when they found their purses were gone." " Bridges completely washed away, cattle killed, houses flooded, with the furniture floating in the rooms " — such is the account of one of Ihe most destructive floods ever known in Yorkshire. On July 26 the water swept down Swaledale and Arkingworthdale in torrents. Hundreds of acres of meadow land were under water. Large herds of cattle and flocks of cheep had narrow escapes, after being surrounded with water, but only a few head of stock perished. In the wild mountainous dist riots of Arkingworthdale, where garden walls and produce were washed down tbe valley, thousands of pounds' worth of damage was done. In Swaledale all the meadows on the bw lying ground were flooded and rendered worthless. The field of Bannockburn is about to be converted into the sit? of a coal mine.