Miscellaneous

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 65, 2 December 1886, Page 4

Miscellaneous

. o — Tbe Italian colonists at Buenos Ayres have waxed wroth owing io the laurels won tlipre by 5..1-I1 IWnhardt whose liiStrionictriumphshavfblurr«'d thesj lendour of some f-ivonte opera Kineera who have been stan-ln* in. La Plata, lwo journalists— < ne Wrench, the other Italian harp pricked their arms over the matter, and another duel between their seconds is imminent. Th* Italians have *!•_ m making a national question of ihe rival claims of Sarah Bernhardt and an ar€re«» called Duse Cecchi, whom they wmt to j.ut forward as the model from whom the groat French tragedienne has coph'd. " M. Sardou also falls in for his *hare of abuse, and there is no telling vhere the newspaper war will end. - An agricultural correspondent ofthe Standard sayi :— As Michaelmas approaches, the'namberof tarms in Kent to "become; vacant at that period is being increased almost daily. In nearly every district of the three d ivisions— East and West Kent: and the Weald-there are farms to let, and, except in a few instances, there are no tenants in view. Last week, at Canterbury, one of the best furms in the fayoured district of East Kent wis put up for sale by auctien. The Und is noted for his hops, fruit, and corn, and the auctioneer stated that at five per cent the farm would be worth. £9000. .Not a single bid was made for the property.