SUPREME COURT.
[Per Press Association.] NAPIER, Sept. 9. At the Supreme Court John Nelson, charged with intent to do bodily harm to Watere at Hastings, was acquitted. This closed the criminal session.
It is stated that, diamonds become phosphorescent in the dark after exposure to the sunlight or electric light, and when rubbed on wood, cloth, or metal. This is an important property, as it enables the amateur to distinguish between paste and real. Swinburne is said to have a memory almost as wide-reaching as Macaulay had. Burne- Jones relates that upon one occasion the poet recited verbatim several pages, of Milton's prose, which he had read only once, and that twenty years before. A traveller visiting Naples recently had his attention called to a placard posted on the door of a little shop in the Via Toledo informing the public that "the title of duke is offered for sale ; inquire within."
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 5666, 10 September 1896, Page 3
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