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Star (Christchurch), Issue 2786, 8 March 1877, Page 3

Mary Wilson was tried at the Central Criminal Court reoently, for having committed a fearful assault upon Margaret Murray. The two women had an altercation at a house in Drury lane, and the prisoner seized her antagonist and forced her with her face upon tbe fire, whioh waa a large one. Her face waa terribly injured, her hair was burned off, her arm atook to the firegrate, and ehe would have been burnt to death but for the help of aome neighbours. For this atrocious assault the prisoner was sentenced to six months' imprisonment with hard labour. .Perhaps the moßt ourious thing about St. Philip's Chapel, Winchester, are the ancient stall-Beats, now affixed to the wall of the antechapel. These have their seats so fixed upon binges that those who Bit in them can only maintain their position by balancing themselves with cara, and reßting their elbows on tbe arm seats; ao that if the monks who used them dropped asleep during divine service, the seats came forward and pitched them headlong upon the floor ; nay, if they only dozed and nodded tho least in the world;' the hard oak seat clapped against' the hard oaken baok, and made a noise loud enough to attraot the attention of the whole oongrega- ' tion. Nothing was ever more cleverly contrived to keep people awake at ohuroh. I ■:-..: - .-■■■■ * '.-.••■■■ '='-■'• jy\)'' A ;A.