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Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1469, 1 October 1885, Page 4

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The following is a copy, published m tbe Home papers, verbatim et literatim, of a curious letter from a person suffering under a strange illusion :— " July 6, 1885. Advertisau printing 'office, London. Gentlemen, — i beg That jon will publish This case, i beg to forbid The marriage between her majesty !s youngest daughter, i forbid against any other gentleman barriu myself, i beg to marry This dear Lady at her earliest consent. Me and This .dear lady have been noticin each other for a very long Time. I remain, yours truly-—. .English foibidance. Koytil highness Princess Beatrice Mary Victorit "Feodors, Windsor Court ; Isle of Wight ; Os'oorh Court, or Buckingham Pallace Court; or Whippingham Court ; or elsewhere. The newly-appointed parson of a very hilly Kentish village, being, a cricket entnusiast, was resolved to instil a love for the ganiQfiiito his parishohers. Accordingly, a ineeting was held, subscriptions and help were promised, and the sole difficulty that remaiued to be overcome was the discovery of a suitable field. The only level bit m the parish belonged to a butchor, 'who was a cantankerous bumptious fellow, fle, however consented to lend his field, and, although he was known to be rib cricketer, he was asked to play m the opening match. His first ball clean bowled him ; but, instead of. walking away from the wicket, he remained with the evident determination of continuing his innings. The umpire, therefore, •walked up to him and said : " You're out, Mr Bull, you're. out." The butcher turned round and said : " o,^'ra hout, ham I ? I'm hout ! Well, hout you all go from my blooming field." Since the Pall Mall Gazette first published those sensational yot truthful articles entitled " The truth about the Navy a perfect avalancho of adverse criticism has fallen upon the English Admiralty. And the worst of it is that it is deserved. At the recent great naval review at Banlry the following events occurred : — Leauder nearly grounded and lost ; Repulse knocked the funnel and mast out of a gunboat, the Snap ; the Aj.ix narrowly escaped ramming the Agiucourt ; the Lord Warden got on fire m the bunkers ; the Devastation got lost m a fog and nearly went aground ; and the Hecla ran into the Cheerful and smashed her up a good deal. Worse still, as another result of the famous naval manoeuvres three ironclads, hitherto classed Ist class, are condemned as useless, and are to be broken up. Verily, " The truth about tho Navy " is not a pleasant item of news for Englishmen to read. In compliance with an order *ot the House of Lords, dated the 15th of June. 18S5, a return has been made of all Acts of Parliament passed during the last 200 years, by which a peerage has been restored to the person entitled to hold it. These Acts are seven m number. In 1742 the titles of Earl of Doncastcr and Baron Scot of. Tindal wore restored to the Duke of Buccleuch. No further Act •was passed until 1824, m which year, on the 17th of June, four such restrictions were made, by which the Earldom of Mar was restored to Francis Erskine, the title of Viscount Kenmuro to John Gordon, that of Viscount S*trathallan to James Drummond, and that of Lmd Nairn to William Nairne. On the 26th May, 1826, the title of Baron Duff us was restored to James Sutherland ; and on the same day the Earldom of Carnwath to Major-General Robert Alexander Dalzell. Rev. Dr. Talmage, speaking on the subject of women's work, said : — Some say "Give woman the ballot." leannot now discuss what that influence would be on other 'question*, but would female suffrage right woman's wrongs ? I think not. Does not woman .oppress woman as much ns men 4 : oppress her? Docs not woman bent down the value of; work to the last point? Docs she not get the last cent possible out of the woman that sews for her? Does not woman often make a hard bargain with the washerwoman and the milliner, and manlua maker ? Does not the woman say when tho hard-working soul comes up and wants a dollar for hor work, " Won't you take ninety cents? " Well, you say, that is only ten cents difference — tan cents are not much. Ah I they may be the difference between heaven and hell. Carterton pesscsaps a clairvoyant of rennrkwhly good powers. She is a young married woman and her diagnoses and prescriptions for all sorts of ailments and diseases have surprised not a few. We hear from several persons that she has been moet successful even m cases whore doctors could do nothing. She simply sits near the patient and by her clairvoyant or second sight sees every organ of the patient. Thrre is no trance as with Signor Hug. There arc? many persons who pooh-pooh such things as clairvoyance, but these who have been suffering for years unable tc get at the seat of their disordor by any other menns, should prove this phaso of healing power. — Wsiirarapa Standard.