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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1233, 18 November 1882, Page 2

There are in China about 800 missionaries of all varieties of the Christian Church, which a British clergyman 1 calculates is about equal 'to foii'r men sent to Introduce a new religion' into Loridon, or 2? for ill JJndand arid, Wales!' To make the casoWWoTJjr "comparable, tm men must be barbarians, wholly ignorant; -jf ) of the'language, and no comtfituWd race as tti make its' Acquirement h'eilrly an * 7 M .... T I' II I I. . ll'. Mi' J Ml i lmpoijibulty, , v i Acoordiog'to a native Japapese papgr, the picturesque pld juji]{s which have |R' ■ ; often figurei} jn stories' and pictures of' maritime Ijfe jn \fo far pasf, are rapidly' -'•'{ disappearing, at (east so, far as Japan., js concerned Apcordjne tfl {his autl)o%, " shipbuilding ixf the Japanese style is so far giying plape to foreign. cpptiiictjon, that byao4by tJiprp wjjlbe ro ancb thing ai a junk pxoept jn paintings, 1 ' The secretary of {he Amalgamated Society of Railway servants slates that in the fivo years ending with 1850 'no less than 209 railway servants were killed outright on 1 the railways of Great Britain, and 1614 others lost limbs, wero crashed, or otherwise, injured, whilst engaged in coupling or uncoupling trucks'and j waggons. From ,12,000 to 14,000 men iV the total number-',of those 'whose regular duty it is to marshal and distribute trains, and it was amongst Uhis: number that the foregoing Msualtiea courrad.