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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1305, 5 April 1883, Page 4

Sara Bernhardt (says an English paper) hardly seems in a flourishing pecuniary condition just now. The receipts at the Ambigu Theatre are taken every night by Sara’s numerous creditors. She spent £5OOO upon the dressed, scenery, Ac., of the piece now running, and the company and general expenses amount every night to above £lOO. The average taken at the doors is only £6O. In a letter addressed to a Paris paper, Sara states she has lost £15,600 by an investment she made by the advice of a relative. She had placed it in a business which has failed. Her debts are no secret, but the artist writes that she proposes to struggle against the misfortune, and will still keep the Ambigu and the Theatre Moderns going, and will respect her signature. Strange how Te Whiti fulfils his prophecies —some of them I Whether he has or has not '' returned from the dead" is an open question; but it is pointed out that one of his prophecies was that he would return to Parihaka “on a star." What he did return on was a steamer, and, oddly euough, that steamer was named the Stella, which in the vulgar tongue means a star. So that he did finish nis starring tour in the manner foretold !— N.Z. Times According to the Feilding paper these ie in that district a cute toper who was made subject to a prohibition clause of the Licensing Act, but bested the Magistrates by brewing beer for himself. A London paper is severe on cigarettesmokers, and remarks I—" It has been eng* gested by a theatrical critic, in a letter to a daily newspaper, that the cigarette is one of the chief dangers with which playgoers have to reckon. The cigarette-smoker is übiquitous, he throws away the ends of his little rolls of paper and tobbacco indiscriminately ; he never looks to see whether they are or are not alight, and he is heedless or the mischief they may do. Whatever the precise amount of peril to the public that they may involve moat persons will be disposed to admit that the facilities provided for loigatette-smokers in theatres are needlessly abundant. Smok-ing-rooms are not wanted in theatres, and ought not to be allowed to exist in them. As a matter of fact, they would never have been introduced but for the popularity of the cigarette, It is this, and not the cigar, which is responsible for them. Ever since the Heir-Apparent set the fashion of smoking cigarettes, a new horror has been added to the atmosphere inhaled in our theatres. It is now discovered that this may be accompanied by a peril of a more terrible kind. The risk of fire is often exaggerated i but the exaggeration will have accomplished one good thing if it expels cigarette-smokers and cigarette-rooms from the playhouse." At Halifax, United Va., States, a rich young farmer, named James Guthrie, was, early in February, married to Miss Hulda Martain at the residence of the bride's father. Owing to the bad weather the guests re mained at the mansion all night. Next morning when they assembled at the breakfast table, it was remarked that the bride and groom were late in coming. Suddenly the shriek of a woman was heard, and the startled guests rushed into the hall, where they met the bride of the night, who cried : “My husband ! oh, my husband 1" When she woke in the morning the young lady found her husband dead by her aide. f(he was almost a maniac with grief. His funeral took place from the house in which he was married, his four groomsmen acting as pallbearers, and the minister who married him performing the funeral ceremony. The following advertisement is extracted from a Berlin paper : —“ A medical student, whose means are exhausted, would like to meet with someone who would advance Mm the necessary sum to complete his studies, at a moderate rate of interest. If necessary, he would as a guarantee at once marry his creditor's daughter, or, if he prefers it, would give an undertaking to do so on passing his final examination. ' r Uponj which an English paper says At present ths law in tills country is in such a state that a man cannot offer himself as security, at least not since the decision in Shylock cercus Antanio reported Shapesphere, ‘ Merchant of Venice,' Act iv. Perhaps to offer oneself as son-in-law is the next best security; and as there are numerous mothers-in-law seeking for sound investments and sons-in-law, business might be done. ” A Cincinnati girls spent all her leisure tune for three years learning to box, and then when she got married and wanted to fight her husband she went at him and pulled his hair and scratched the same as any other woman would. You can’t get over human nature.