MISCELLANEOUS

Timaru Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 5194, 15 July 1891, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS

A Sydney tram motor ran down a butcher's curt. The injured owner brought an action againet the Railway Commissioners for compensation. Ho claimed £3000, but only got £450, Bondigo (Victoria) apples have fetchod twelve and sixponco per case m the Home market. Xbe fancy pricea enjoyed by the Tasmanian growers during tho last year or two have not been maintained m the face of increased exportation. A very tragio affair happoaod at Albury fc'ne other day. An intosicatod man drove ' a horse and buggy into the river Murray. The night was very dark, heavy ruin wob falling, and tho river was roaring along at a terrific speed m full Hood. Although a Frenchman, who was camping near the spot, called out, no heed was taken of the warning, and man, Lor:e, and buggy were swept away. According lo a contemporary, rabbilskins aro likely to rise m value, for lha decree has gone forth m Paris, from the mysterious arbiters of fashion, that " rabbits' wool conting " ia to be lha mnterial to be worn by all who wish to be regarded as m the mode. Tho Prince of Wales hae set the nsimplo, and as tho new tissue, which is described as being very soft and beautiful, is equally well adapted for malo and female apparel, tho demand for rabbit fur can Bcarcely fail to assume very large dimensions. News has been received at Perth of an outrage committod by blaoks at Mount Dockroll. Mr Miller, manager of the Mount Dockrell Goldmining Company, and another man named Webb, were raising water out of a well, when Bomo blacks came by, and asked for some water, wbioh waß ;givon to them. When they *»ero lowering tbo bucket the second time the blacks sheared both men. Miller is not oxpeeted to live, as l.ho spear went through tho lower part of his body, and whb pulled out on the other side. Wobb has two epoara m him, one between the shoulder and one m the shoulder. The first instalment of the " Memoirs of Count Von Boon," the famous Minister of War m Prussia during the great struggle of 1870-71, hns jiut been published m the Deutche Rente. With respect to the means chosen for converting, " with the nectary rapidity, the pacific Gorman sentiments into Teutonic angor," ihe Count fays : — " In one of the Ministerial Bittinga, which was not even fully attended, they drew up with much addroas and presenco of mind tho cry of necessary alarm. The ineidont at Ems and tho interviews of Benodetti with the king served as the needful point of departure. There was written at tho Wilhelmstraese — ns has boon known for along time past to the initiated — the despatch, dated from Kms, which, published by Iho Agonco Wolff, did more m fourandtwonty hours than a thousand trumpet alarms." Tho testimony of Count Von Boon thus confirms that of Herr Schnoidcr and Compts Benedetti that the despatch from Ems which kindled the war of 1870 between France and Germany was based on a faleohoo J-