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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume IX, Issue 930, 30 March 1881, Page 6

Some men are called muffs because they are used to keep a flirt’s hand in. Mr. R. W. E. Maclvor is a passenger by the s.s. Te Anau to Auckland. This gentle-, man has earned .a high position among the scientific authorities of the day, and comes to New Zealand as the representative of a number of Melbourne speculators with the view of inspecting White Island, and reporting upon its sulphuric resources for the preparation of chemical manures. In Boston the receipts at Sara Bernhardt’s performances were nearly £lO,OOO for thirteen nights', and the Athens of America was quite wild over her.. Her social success, there, as elsewhere, was, however, nil. Instead of receiving her in..society, the igrave Bostonians solemnly discussed in letters to their papers whether they could, without compromising their own reputations/ or imperilling their individual souls, attend the theatre where an “ unmarried mother,” as they euphemistically call Mdme, Bernhardt, was playing. , In Montreal the .bishops of ther Roman.. Catholic Church warned their followers tn - rema in away from the frail Jewess’, representations, but the warning only served,;, as might have been expected, as a prodigious free advertisement,. The French of Montreal went to the extreme of enthusiasm.