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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 903, 19 October 1881, Page 2

The romantic story that the Princess Louise would have been plain Mrs Duckworth instead of Marchioness of Lome bad she followed her own sweet will, is again renewed, owing to the rumour tkqL Prince Leopold's former tutor is to w made Dean of Westminster. It is not, however, at all credited in well-informed circles.

The newspaper Golos published at St. Petersburg, has been suppressed for six months. The reasons assigned are firstly, an article critisising the Prince of Bulgaria and General Ehrenroth; and, secondly, a feuilleton animadverting on the behaviour of Russian naval officers in foreign ports.

The following is an advertisement v h'ch recently appeared in the New York Clipper " Wanted—A good understander; one that can catch somersaults from three high down and hold for three high spotter." That means a circus performer, to be one of three tumblers, and hold the two others in feats of posturing and somersaulting. Count Karolyi, who has just died at Pestl', in his eighty-fourth year, was at one time a partisan of Hungarian independence, and equipped a regiment of hussars at his own expense in 1818, besides placing twenty tons' weight of silver at the dispusal of the national Government, having previously liberated forty thousand peasants on his estates. A young man of western Massachusetts went to Amherst to get a marriage license, and his prospective mother-in-law accompanied him in order to see that he got back in time for the ceremony in the evening ; but at Amherst they both got drunk, and were locked up in jail at the hour appointed for the wedding. There are 45,000 persons engaged in the manufacture of pottery in England and Wales. The death rate is 38 per cent higher than among the male element at large. In the lungs of a potter who ( recently died of consumption were found 48 per cent of silicia, 18 of alumina, and 5 of oxide of iron—articles of constant use in his business.

A native of Herzegovina and a Christian, Madame Nedjib Pasha, who recently entertained the wives of the ambassadors and ministers at a dejeuner at her yali on the Bosporous, married a Turk and a Mahommedan.