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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1245, 2 December 1882, Page 2

An anti-Ohlnese meeting was held ia London on Sept. 8;- One of the speakers,: Mr J. H, Johnston, late editor of the Shanghai Mercury, denounced the proposition to introduce Chinese labour on a wholesale scale in faotories and mine* in England. He instanced the effect which Chinese immigration had had upon California. The meeting was well attended, 1 and the feeling was decidedly against the importation of Chinese. (Sir Wilfred Lawion, spoalring it a loopl option demonstration at Kensington, laid he dared say that a groat many of those present had seen an advertisement in the uowipapera headed, " Ho* to avoid the injurious effects of stimulants." There was once a boy who was told to write ah easily on pins and needles. The boy wrote a vory short essay. (Laughter,) He said, "Pins are the most useful of things; they hare tared the lives of many families." "How so?" asked tlio master. "By lot swallowing them/ 1 said the boy, (Great laughter,) That was his (Sir- W. Lawson's) oure for : the injurious effects of stimulants.

The fiyitem of selling goods on instalments, with the proviso that the sellar may aeizq the attiolei whenever a payment has been neglected, and that without refunding anything, had received a blow in an English County Court. The Judge deaoribad : the agreement in common uie as most infamom, and ordered a nonsuit; deolinirig to hear (lie plantifiTs solicitor or to grant a case ,of appeal. An awful accident on the railroad, between Freiburg and Colmar, in' Alsace; on Sept. StjlirucMMd By a Ulegraph pole. baring' been' 'thrown tenon the fack by a .thunderstorm. The train carried 1200 excursionists, of whom about 100 were killed, and 300 injured. It was the nevbreat railroad acoidetit, next' to tha Tay bridge disaster;' which has ever oeourred in any country.- ■ ' .' t The_ land troubles of Scotland are assuming a serious character; Two officers fr<m Inverness procceeded recently to Skya toi serve noticeaof interdict' on; behalf of their landlord; , but, after serving a.few,.the,object of tboir viiit : b'ecam? .' know.n, ,tud ./the., women; "jjjji .children, in the absence' of r ffljen, turned cut in force and compelled the offic«r» r to .ntin.

THE NATURAL WAIST OF WOMAN. At a popular physiology leoture lately, Prof, Stirling, of 1 Ours,'in the course of bd amusing diatribeagainst the martyrdom "/ of stays worn by vromin, exhibited a figure of the ■ Venus of Milo. side by side with the representation of a woman cut from a Paris fashion plate for 1880, and provoked great laughter by men desire that women should Use them* selves. io„u to, form a thing that one could span with two fingers t The human arm has not girown shorter within the last century.' Is it a coincidence or a wise prevision, < bat a man'* arm and a woman's waist "both measure on an avenge 30 inohes? ,• ; ;