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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2480, 2 March 1881, Page 4

An attendant at the Oregon Insane Asylum was told to climb a tree and bring down a patient who had taken a position in its top. He had reached a height of 30 feet, when a limb broke, and he fell, bouncing from branch to branch, and finally sitting on the ground like the hammer of a pile driver. For twenty years this man had been dumb, though able to hear, but now the spectators were astonished by such an outbreak of fluent and shocking profanity as they had never heard before. Ihe cure was permanent too. The following very elegant dissertation on the nude in art appears in the “ Thames Star’s” opening notice of the Victoria Loftus Troupe “ A number of people, who have more prudish notions than those prompted by real modesty, have spoken condemningly of the scarcity of wearing apparel in which the actresses and actors were clothed, but by doing so they only betray the most culpable ignorance, as it is well known that when so dressed they are merely lay figures, and should be considered in that light, or the same as the nude statues, and.lightly clad pictures of gods and goddesses one sees in a pictuie gallery or Art Union. “To the pure all things are pure,” and although lascivious minded people will say the dresses were indecent there wre nothing in last evening,s performance which would be objectionable to the most fastidious.”

Admiral G-lyn, to whom Miss Neil son left her fortune, was hindered from marrying her, it is rumored, by the disapproval of the Prince of Wales. The Prince has had him lately to shoot deer with him in Scotland, and he was also invited to dine with the Queen at Balmoral. BTAFFOEDSHIEE WAEEHOUSE, (Late Gibbs and Clayton’s Store), Bond Street, Dunedin. Earthenware, China, and Glass Manufacturers, IMPOETEES. Indents Taken. Warehouse, Boom and offices to let. Goods Warehoused. Postal Address, Box 332. STEPHEN OLIYE, Agent. ME GEOEGE PEARSON has been appointed Agent at Timaro For the sale of the SOUTH CANTEEBUEY TIMES. Stephen AND and