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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 18, Issue 1149, 18 October 1871, Page 3

A remarkable plant has been discovered in Ecuador, the tea from which is a certain cure for cancer. Dr Keene, of Washington, has been sent to Ecuador to get information regarding its cultivation, and he pronounces the plant itself an undoubted antidote for cancer, and a most invaluable discovery for the medical faculty of the world. The gardens of the Tuileries were once more thrown open to the public on the 23rd July. In the House of Commons, on the 2nd August, Mr Macfie, amidst much laughter, a*ked whether the Prime Minister had invited the Pope to take up his residence in the British Isles ? Mr Gladstone gravely aspired the hon. gentleman that there was not the shadow of a foundation for such a statement.

At the meeting of the Sunderland guardians on the 21st July the case was reported of a woman named Mary Ann Main, 93 yeais of age, who had been on the books from her birth to her death. She was born a cripple, and was never married,

An Indianna paper says : Two men came before the judicial descendant of iSolomon at Chazupore, recently, both claiming the same wife. As there was no satisfactory evidence, the Magistrate proposed that each should live with the wife alternately a fortnight at a time. One agreed very readily, hut the other protested against such a judgment, when the Judge, reversing his former position, awarded the woman to the Mfcer as his lawiullv wedded wife,