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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 917, 4 November 1881, Page 1 (Supplement)

American flour is <ii|']>l»ntin<> rye flwr ou the table of (he German peasant. During the recent very lint weather in London, ice was a luxury only to be obtained liy the rich. • The father of Miss Harkncss, who took the prize at Paris fur violin playing, is a aper-earrier in Boston. • Switzerland is suffering from a severe drouth, which has entered,on its third month, reducing production, and destroying cattle and making much misery. A festival given at Paris in aid nl the persecuted Russian Jews realised 18.000 dols. Queon Isabella of Spain, Count Beuat ni l Austria, and oilier diuiiniiuislied personages were : prtsont.' '.'Favorite actresses sold programmes and ices. Gounod led the orchestra. •,' ■ ; Dr Jessup, of Beriut, makes'a remark-' able report concerningitnow Anti-Tuikish 'j,; : , movement. A newspaper is now printed "-in London in Arabic, Tuikish, Persian, Hindostanee, and Euglish,and distributed over the Mohammedan world. It is edited with great power, and has wealthy BMWtWI