Local and General.

Thames Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 10566, 12 June 1907, Page 4

Local and General.

A man in New South Wale*, after skinning: some dead sheep, died from look-jaw, 7ollowing bloodipoisor.inir. The healiih of the Maori race is, th© Nafcive'Ministerl states, more satisfactory than it hasl been for some time.

The humorous rogue who suibstitiuted weak tea for whisky at Raurimu is himself now drinking weak tea. He chose) a month's gaol in preference to a fine' and costis! amounting to £19 16s. ' °

Whilst Enoch Walkerdon and his son were playing a game of draughts: at Ganmain (N.S.W.), his infant child I,' aged, eleven monthiSj piokedi up on©' ol the drauigiltsmen and -plaoed it in his! mouth. The piece ibecame embedded in the %hroat, and the child wai^ choked.:

: ..Signor 1 Paolo Tbsti, thie composer, reoently^beciame naturalised as an^ Ebglwhmani,. ancTis now ., surprised toi find thatt when a miain assumes a new nationa,lity h« a* the same; time loses his former one.. Only la*el~ Signor Tosti was info¥m4ia officially 'tihe 'IMian!.!Emihia6^;t&at he had lost his iltalian ..■natitmaiUtly,. and- now he rergtete lhaviag! > *e&m thle- stepi;--b©c(ause he- .Intends; shortly <f 0 settle in.' TMj ■again. , .-,. r-

Sir Joseph) Ward spoke;at the annual, meeting; .of thJe Victoria; .^League at the Imperial;: Ihstitiife* in [London reoen%. By ; w«son.,of th,e,,Urg».,num^ bter 1 of ladieV present;, atith'atl meeting, he said, j^ehiinded Win; more of a New. Zealand 'thani any gathering of the kindi hie hiadi yet attended in London. ®uti for the fact that he must keep clear of politick, he would have' liked to siiy somethrng' of the way in! whioh) the'women of New Zealand had i exemsed the fnaijichis©. . i

New * Rain Coats^for Ladi*;! Notice the "new." This is an entirely freßh lot just purchased direct from the manufacturers'. New designs, new materitrls,j :irew fstyles. at bedrock prires.- Court's Beehive.—Advt. * !iti|smei.jifeainm?rDallepiagne'. ;wlio was indicted at the Seine Assize Courts on a dhiairgef o¥/A;6«^p^g>^t.iri.urfler M. Merlou, fonuedy MSnisfeor of Finance and ntoiw'tPrwacl Ministeri'in. Peru, has been acquitted. It appeared that she firfet jbec«ra«-ac^[ukinted with M. Mer-' lou in IS92U-when ha was practising! a* ai doctor 1. He was a married man, rfeut paid'.aib^ntwOTi'to-^hi* patient. A; child was bom, and Mmc! Dalfemagne was thettJi'cfeMittd cbylMj Mbrloui for another woman, leaving her in a stater of jvreajti^eastfitaMoni;-) Th© chM died sooa aftef. Mme. Dallemiagne one day met W. Merlou om the Boulevard desc Italiems, and fired-fow shots at, him* with) a revolver 1. He was not sericWy :»owidedr ;;...■ ■.-.. ; •„r ■■ \