Untitled

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XII, Issue 45, 27 February 1885, Page 7

A Capuchin monk, Father Vincentini, has started for the Mahdi's camp to solicit the release of several monks and nuns. The fact that Carter and Co., of George Street, are the only Drapers in Dunedin doing a strictly Cash Trade who import their own Goods direct from Home Markets, is the one cause of their being able to sell cheaper than any other firm. Carter and 00. have just opened, ex S.S. Coptic and Kaikoura, ]6 cases Meu"s and' Boys' Clothing, and iv consequence of the desperate scarcity of Ready Money, they have decided to offer the whole lot, for a few weeks afc Landed Cost. Therefore, call, inspect, and judge for youiself. Carter s, 60, 62, George Street, Dunedin. Wheeling, Dec. 23. — A second horrible outrage and robbery by hooded highwaymen in the past tkiiee days has roused the people of Wheeling to a terrible pitch. On Sunday six masked men entered the home of Mrs. Workenour in the suburbs, and after horribly t«ating the family stole 5,000 dols. in gold. Last night four men, evidently of the same gang, broke into tha hjuse of Elijah Marling, a bachelor miser in this county. Finding only 181 dols. oa his person they horribly tortured him to force him to reveal the hiding place of his gold. He was tied to the bedpost, stripped and a r^d hot poker applied to his back and thighs in twenty places. Hot oil was also poured down bis back. His suffering was terrible. la their anger the burglers struck the victim a heavy blow on the head aud left him hanging by the fastenings in an insensible condition, where he was found nearly frozen. His condition is critical. Marling is 68 years of age. All efforts to locate or capture the gang seem useless. The county constabulary are powerless, and dwellers in solafced houses are in constant dread. The deeds of toe Wosfc Virginia " Bed Men " are being outdone in the metropolis.