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Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1487, 22 October 1885, Page 4

■■ Wanganni people will be pleased to learn that Dr Thomas Bell, son of Mr Peter 8e11,., of this town, has been appointed surgeon on the voyage ta New Zealand of the magnificent new; stnamship Mararoa, just built at Glasgow .for the Union^ Company. Dr : Bell.jwas, selected out of twenty applicants f or^he appointment. The Mararoa with a number of invited excursionists started bh Ihle Bth tiltimo on a ten days' pleasure cruise off the coast of Norway,' and' it Was arranged' to make- her trial; . trip , on th#f 2Bnd- of :Beptemben ;-She *waß vt.Q<je^ye for; New Zealand op .the : October, and should arrive about .the^ 15th of next month.— Chronicle. ; 1 The jStaj^c, m its "Anecdotes,, of Amerioan f P|ayers and Plays,' 1 refers jtp , the death of Don Martle, the famous; Transatlantic comedian of olden dayii. Be had arrived m St. Louis, to fulfil an. pnga^enient ! 'at' 'tlie 'Vfrne 1 when thY pholera was . at its height! Tho manIgerstiid ißßrt«d postem :— " A certain cure for. the cholera 1» Come and see; the great comedian , Don < Myrtle, m two' of his most popular characters!" On returning to his hotel, on the conclusipn.; of the first, performance Martle was seized with the fatal malady^ and died within a few hours. , ; Ooost»mp«on,"Bajrt«rt Loaf Pwstrrer has' bejailfnaUyiuooenlttl. !