A native was brought up charged with a serious care of obtaining money under false pretences. He had made a quantity of tickets purporting to have been issued by the Municipal Council through Wilson of the Lowza Station. had not only made use of the name of Mr. Wilson on the tickets, but bad Council seals made in Chinese for affixing to the tickets, Thus provided, he sullied forth and succeeded in collecting from a n wp, and a tobacco-shop (all in the Road) the sum of 300 cash. At the fourth place he called, rected, and the wary 12a Station to ask for information, Tus Wilson immediately despatched who found the offender busily engaged ondeavouring to collect come money from still anotheratoreon the strength of the forged tickets, Having no other alternative, the wan made full confession of his guilt, The Assessor insisted that the prisoner should be made a severe example of, as the principle involved was of great importance, but the Magistrate was disposes! to deal with him leniently, as he bad succeeded Onur was sentence ut of the Shefield Cetewayo has including a tall black hat!
This shows the eapacit, of the King of the Zulus to recei 7 and assimilate new i but it destroys the romance which pictured hi untamed African lion, much more likely to be kept in" cage than put into a tweed suit, There is some reason to believe that Cetewayo will become a ily able person, He may even ttle in England ually with a Gove ment pension, and fashivvable elegant umbrella instead of an asueg A shocking occurrence is reported from the little town of Gi, in the district of Melitopol, in Sour is Russia, The annual fair was elt there on 22ud Soptetuber, and, as usual, attended by a multitude of peavaute, A of persons dined at an eating-baure, yang other articles, a of white and p ing torture, The number of others ying ill was not known, but was believed to be constierable. Eight peasants, three women, and three children, who had portal of the fatal meal before quitting the town, were seized on their way home with such atrocious pains that they lay down on the read There is no suspicion of any poisonous drag having been designedly {ntroduced into the food," Either putrid, or some poi gradient had been mixed with the in curing it, The death is annovnoed at Heidelberg of Dr. Adolf S: ho was formerly in large Peighbourhood, "Que morning in 1874, while ico asa 0 in Elberfeld and its
dressing, he contrived in some way to get a shirt button between his teeth, Unconiously, while laughing, the button slipped into she back of his mouth, and thence into the larynx. All the exertions of his surgical tries to remove it were vain. Tt was ascertained that it sank into the right lung, which soon became irritated. Spitting of blood en-ined, and he was himeelf looking forward to th as not to pi surprised by a violent fit of coughing, panied by spitting of blood, in a paroxysm of which the button was ejected. Hie health rapidly improved, and in " couple of monthe, unself as quite cured, he resumed work, and endeavoured to gather up the threads of his former practice, But last year unmistakeable eymptows mai fested themselves that the lung bad not fully recovered from the presence in its substance of a foreign body for several months, He spent the winter in the south of Europe, hut returned almost worse than he went, He gradually wasted away, and sank a fow dave
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