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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2327, 1 September 1880, Page 3

For Dramatic Authors to avoid.— Aurelicn Scholl, the well-known Parisian chronicler, is making war upon certain familiar phrases of the dramatic repertory. The following have been placed under the ban . My poor father ! —keep it from him ! Iluined —aye, ruined! The rich banker at London to whom I had entrusted all my fortune has fled ! Who am I ? Thou wouldst know my name P My name is vengeance 1 Your father is innocent, I tell you, and here arc the papers which will prove it. Lost, my child, lost—and all through me! Put say that you are innocent; tell me that it is false? Nothing ! Not a word ! She is silent! Oh, heaven ! then it is true ! and through all (he wcaiy wanderings of my exile, your image, Amelia, has ever been present to my mind. There are those, you know, who are born to love —and to suffer. Here is the maddening joy of the ball and festival, but yonder arc mourning, suffering, death ! Somebody tells me that this casket contains the secret of my birth. Ha 1 M. le count, think you then that there are two kinds of honour—one for people of your class, another for humble working-men p An insurmountable barrier lifts itself between you and me. lain the daughter of a convict. You should say the daughter of a martyr. An incident which would suffice t supply Ouida with the ground work of a novel romantic as “ Idalia,” occurred in the neighborhood of Mar ton a short time since, if wc may believe the local