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Lyttelton Times, Volume LVII, Issue 6509, 6 January 1882, Page 3

! Herr Most, the editor of the London Freiheit, is learning the tailoring basiness in prison. He is permitted to read nothing but ' religious trapts, and for writing has onlj a slate and pencil. The Fljing Squadron, with the Rojal Princes on board, reaohed Yokohama, Japan, on Oct. 21. The Prirce* landed on Oct. 24, and proceeded to Tokio as guests of the Japanese Government. The King of Ashantee recently killed 200 i young girls for the purpose of using their blood for mixing mortar for the repairs on one of his State buildings. Buoh wholesale mo-snores are known to be the custom of this King. The Haytien Chamber has abolished the export duty on cotton from Jan. 1, and increased the export duties on cigars and tobacco. 'J he Chamber has curtailed the privileges of the Roman Catholic clergy on account of alleged abuses. The steamer Brunswick, owned by Captain Bewick, of Detroit, built last year at Wyandotte, and valued at £30,000, foundered on Not. 11, in Lake Erie, off Dunkirk. The engineer and two cooks were lost. The Brunswick insured for £15,000. A party of twenty miscreant attacked the house of a nan named Curtin, of Mount Maria, near Killavallin, on Not. 12. They beat Curtin, dragge i his wife out of bed, and compelhd Curtin to swear to stop proceedings against a totanl; under notice for nonpayment of rent. There have recently been several cases of cholera at,Bhanghai, most on board ship. One of the officers of the GJencoe asd two men from the Cutty £ark died. Other cases are reported in the hospita', and in the Chinese oity there is a great panic among the native*. The disease has reached Shanghai from the north-west, having boon very bad at Yangohou, and severer stiH at Chinkiamj, where deaths in the eftj have numbered aboatSC per diem.