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Plymouth on 3rd January. He then chartered a lugger, and met the Loch 
Vennachar in the English Channel at 1 a.m. on 6th January in a snowstorm, 
and arrested Walh ridge in his berth. The prisoner was taken before the Bow- 
street Police Court, and duly remanded to Sydney. At Williamstown Detective 
Coleman took charge of the prisoner and brought him up to Melbourne. A 
sum of £760 in gold has also been recovered by Senior- con stable Murphy from 
the prisoner. 
At the inquest on the body of Mrs. Brough, the wife of Mr. John Brough, 
hotelkeeper at Yandarlo, the jury returned a verdict that the deceased com- 
mitted suicide by taking a dose of strychnine while temporarily insane. A 
tricopherous bottle half full of the poison was found in the room, and there 
were also several grains at the bottom of a tumbler. 
A Boy named Horris has died in the Albury Hospital under chloroform. 
Drs. Woods and Kennedy were removing twelve teeth which were growing 
inside his usual teeth, and materially affected his speech. 
Mr. Quong Tart entertained the members of the Presbyterian Assembly of 
Hew South Wales at tea in the Iioyal Arcade on Thursday evening, 18th March. 
A vote of thanks was passed to him, and, when responding, he said that it was 
his intention to carry on his crusade against the opium traffic, and he asked the 
ministers of the Church to assist him in his work. He said that a few thousand 
pounds were received in revenue at present, but this did not compensate for the 
evil that was being done, the full effects of which would be felt in the third and 
following generations. 
The City Coroner resumed his inquiry at the residence of Professor Anderson 
Stuart, Toxteth-street, Glebe, into the circumstances attending thfe death of Mrs. 
Anderson Stuart, who was found dead in bed. The evidence was to the effect 
that deceased had been ailing for some time, and to allay pain and produce sleep 
she had been in the habit of taking narcotics. One of the servants said Mrs. 
Stuart had been in the habit of taking larger doses of narcotics than ordered- 
Professor Stuart had for domestic reasons been absent from home for a few days 
previously to the death of his wife. Professor Stuart, recalled, said that his 
wife had never expressed any intention of taking her life. She was the last sort 
of person who would do such a thing. Mr. Hamlet, assistant Government 
analyst, said that upon examining the contents of the stomach, which had been 
handed to him, he found it was in a healthy condition, but in the kidney he 
found bromide of potassium, and in the intestines distinct traces of morphia. 
The jury returned the following verdict “ That deceased died from an over- 
dose of morphia, but there is no evidence to show by whom it was adminis- 
tered/’ 
A noted statistician, Edward Atkinson, insists that there is an abundance 
of room yet in this world. The 1,400,000,000 persons supposed to be on the 
globe could all find easy standing-room within the limits of a field ten miles 
square, and by the aid of a telephone could be addressed at one time by a 
single speaker. In a field 20 miles square they could all be comfortably seated. 
A simple recipe is given in L' Illustration for making luminous paper. The 
composition consists of forty parts ordinary paper pulp, ten parts water, ten 
parts phosphorescent powder, one part gelatine, and one part bichromate of 
potassa. The phosphorescent powder is composed of sulphides of calcium, 
barium, and strontium, well ground and mixed together. The bichromate of 
potassa acting on the gelatine renders the paper, which is manufactured in the 
ordinary way, impermeable. 
