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Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1507, 16 November 1885, Page 4

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Mrs Lngtry, ec prof a <ional j beauty and actress, has ueen sued for household expenses incurred while living with her husband. Her detence is that lie alone is responsible. Mr Langtry is now Hying very quietly at Beifast on an annuity allowed him by his wife, on , the condition '. that he keeps away f roni her. < H. W. Shaw,, better known as " Josh . Billings," died m California on the 14th of October. i Of 60 convicts who made a desperate break for liberty at" Rusk, Texas, ; on the 4th Oct., 3?> escaped, the rest being shot by the guards. , i A powerful committee, composed of Lords Brandon and Oastletown anfl other | prominent gentlemen, has been jformed t in -London to -assist 'people' of every class m Ireland who have been boycotted,' and to advance funds to persons and corporal ons ■willing to 1 oppose boycotting. At the same time a syndicate m Liverpool has offered to start a flbet of packets m opposition to the Cork !Steam Packet Company to carry, cattle fronij Cork to England for the Nationalists. Several prominent' Nationalists m ,2re« land and America have written to James Stephens now m exile at Brussels, Urging him to contest a seat m the British' Par "liament. Stephens is undecided^ ' A new crusade is threatened m London against tha employment of female, models m artists' studio's. ■ : ■' ; Cornelius Walford, the distinguished ! English author and publisher is dead. Mr Buskin's illness is saiil to be acute mania, and at last reports he wa? completely out of his mind. ■ ' Sir Charles Dilke and Mrs Pattison «>ere married at Chelsea on October 3. .