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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume IX, Issue 922, 2 March 1881, Page 3

It is difficult to realize that the wife of the German Crown Prince, Mary Victoria of England, is now forty years old. It is said to be a singular fact that, with tho exception of Turkey, every reigning royal family in Europe has some of the blood of Mary Stuart in its veins. Two magnificent comets are prognosticated for next year by an Indian writer, who, according to the Times of India-, announces that these heavenly bodies will be visible from April Ist to June the 12tb, will stretch across one-fourth of the heavens, that they occupy 2,025 t years in their revolution, and that they eclipse the brilliancy of the midday sun, and form the original Light of Creation, the light with which the Genesis of the world opened ; thus fulfilling all prophecy, and settling biblical chronology beyond dispute. The Field has severed its connection with the Times (says the World,) to the .great satisfaction of the contributors to the former journal. The Field, as is well known, supplied the Times with its sporting intelligence for many years, and in the days of Delane and Mowbray Morris nothing could be pleasanter than the relations between the two papers. Both the editor and manager of “ the leading journal ” were then so essentially gentlemen that it was a pleasure to work with and under them. However, other times, other manners ; and the proprietors of the Field have, I should say, acted "wisely in terminating the connection.