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Clutha Leader, Volume IV, Issue 207, 28 June 1878, Page 3

Fragments of ancient found in Natal bear a very close resemblance to the pottery made by the ancient British. Mr Beecher, who is lecturing in the country, telegraphs to the New York Tribune : — " I confront Mrs Tilton's confession with an explicit and absolute denial." Mr Beecher s friends refuse to believe the confession, and attribute it to the influence of Theodore Tilton over a woman who is half insane. There have been rumours for some weeks of a reconciliation between husband and wife. — Daily News.

The intellectual abilities of the Japanese race have been evidenced in a striking manner by a quartette of students from that country now studying in Berlin. One of these, Dr Dirokitao, has lately invented an ingenious optical instrument termed the leucoscope, which measures the variations in the perception of light and colour by the human eye, in accordance with the .strictest mathematical laws. Another, who has attained the rank of lieutenant in the Prussian army, has introduced a remarkable simplification into the *■ mechanism of the Mauser, rifle, which has succeeded the historicineedlergun. Two more, who are prpseciiting'J|jheir chemical studies under. Professbr'!.?Hofe* :^ mann, have pubHshed for/twpfyeaii^l past several interesting searches on the aromatic :&eww&44s44^ '-'""-', ' . '"" •'-'--.'' •*"-"*' '.'--A A'.'.^y-yiiMgyi.