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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 125, 7 May 1884, Page 2

Miss Jennie Lee is again playing “Jo ” in Melbourne. Sir W. Fox has been lecturing at New Ply. mouth on “ Freethought.” The Circe is loading heavy blocks of timber at Wanganui for Auckland. Miss Genevieve Ward says that she intends to visit New Zealand. Professor Payne’s short season in Dunedin died a natural death for want of public support. Professor Hull, who has returned home from a geographical survey from the Palestine Exploration Society, reports that at the time of the exodus of the children of Israel the Mediterranean and the Red Sea were connected ; that the Dead Sea was at one time 150 feet above the level of the Mediterranean; and that there are evidences of a chain of lakes in the peninsula of Sinai. He has traced the Jordan Valley depression for more than 100 miles.

The following warning should not be lost sight of by votaries to that injurious practice which is more productive of sallow complexions and long doctors’ bills than either beauty or comfort—tight lacing. A lady who was proceeding along Lowe Street this afternoon had the misfortune to drop her sunshade and after viewing the same with a puzzled air, made an attempt to regain the same, but failed to prove sufficiently flexible to reach the ground. Regaining her equillibrium she again made a desperate attempt and this time, losing her balance, rolled over in the dirt, to the intense amusement of some spectators. After some peculiar floundering she regained her feet, and sunshade, and (rapidly made off.