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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume IX, Issue 993, 1 November 1881, Page 4

One hundred Jews have escaped from Russia, and arrived in America. Five hundred and fifty-four Jewish workpeople at the Kieff tobacco factory have been ordered to quit town immediately. A valued pointer dog saw a parrot in the vines on a trellis around/i house at which his master had called. The dog sprang up, '‘drew ” on the parrot, “ fastened,” and remained as motionless as a statue, till the bird, with a contemptuous flirt of his feathers, screamed, “Go home, you fool I” The dog turned and ran, and has never been known to point a bird since. In Sandhurst, Victoria, there is a venerable couple who have been married sixty years and both husband and wife are still in robust health. The Bendigo Independent says that they intend celebrating their sixtieth wedding day by what is known under such exceedingly rare circumstances as “ a diamond wedding,” to which a large number of invitations have been issued. Mr. and Mrs. L. Lewis, the happy couple referred to, are respectively ninety-four and eighty-four. The “ diamond wedding,” the second only that can be remembered as having been celebrated in the colony, is announced to take place on the 25th instant, and “ all the world and his wife ” are invited to the happy event.