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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1430, 14 July 1883, Page 4

John Guttridge Sharman, grandson of a popular Methodist preacher, hns been poisoned at Sheffield by a dose of homceopatliic medicine administered to him by his mother. A splendid find of coal was mado recently .on a 10 feet seam, on the hanks of'the Dora creek', near Newcastle, N.S.VV, Operations have been going on for month* past. : ', : ;' ! The Mayor of Bradford at a recent meeting say;! that 10 years' production of linen, cotton, woollen, and bi'pad only reached one year's production of alcoholic liquOr in the British islands. Professor Blackic. in a recent lecture said that the Scottish Highlanders are at once the best behaved and worst treated people in the Queen's dominions. ' ' ■'■ ■ ■ According to the: Missionary Review's tables, the Foreign' Missionary Societies of the world show a gain of 308,643 communicants in the past year. The Sanity Record states that Dr. Bernbcck calls attention to a danger to health resulting from the ultramarino in the'colouring ; of wall-papers. At a meeting of publicans, brewers, itc., on Monday night at Dunediii, it was decided to petition Parliament for a return to dominated licensing benches. , t , ~ . , ' ' The applications, for .places at ; tho cntlnonement of the Primate at >the Canterbury Cathedval reaches the large number of 2100,' asking for between 6000 and 7000 places, Dr Von Haast has received £3O from the German Society of Hokitika, toivards the Rhine inundation relief fund. This makes the amount collected by the Ohristchurch committee £lO7, LordLytton speaking of changes now going on in India as "the greatest and most momentous revolution, : at once, social, moral, religious, and political, which, perhaps, the world has ever witnessed. ''' The'imports for the Colony. ; of * Victoria for 1882ainounted t0£18,748,081, and tbeexports to £16,103,579. The total amount of the Cutoms and, excise revenue was £2,080,144..': Tlio vessels oiiteml inwards,'liuuihered,j2oß9; tonnage 1,349,093 ; and vessels cleared numbered 2079; tonnage, 1,349,093; and the vessels cleared numbered, 2079; tonnoge, 1,341,79b i ;: ■

Nazareth lias now a telegraph, office, the'first opened iivthe Holy Lami; A manufacturer of, potted meats has been airested 'in London for using' donkey's flesh in his business, , "| A paper yacht, to be propelled by steam, is nearly ready .for launching at at Lansingburg, N;Y. ( .arid the experiinerit promises to be. a!success.'; „ Lord Beaconsfield'a portrait now hangs near the eritetnce to the' Queen's. private diriingivboni;,'nudei fl% admirable portrait.bf her greatgrandfather. Itappefirs.thatthe gifts made for the promotion '■' of higher .'education ( ip, the United' ; States.Lave''amouiited4 in: ten years., to, ,nearly, £15,000,000 sterling. ■ ■; Mr 'Edwin 1 Booth's theatrical cam-; paign iii ■'- Germany (the &,'jameVs Ijazette says) has been a great success. lii' Hamburg all the places were bought up. weeks in at a prenfium. The Press, notices were, very cdrdial ; and the stage manager,- a pupil of Day-! i-ient, said that he had never till then sebiv "Hamlet" : or '"Lear."! He'rr Maurice, the . manager, pronounced Edwin Booth the greatest actor who had been seon since Talma's j death. When ho was playiiig "Lear"an eyewitness states that it was mort pathetic •0 see tliepeople sobbing at theWngs. rho actors,engaged to>snpporfc are described to be perfectly! wild with enthusiasm. Intact their admiration, look an demonstrative form. The men fell upon his shoulders, and in Continental fashion, 1 kissed him on both cheeks'; while the womeji wfept' and sobbed as they : shook 'hands! with him. He did net relish the'leasing. In vain lie cried put, !!Mhid the. paintl" And at last, in a sort, of comic desperation, he exclaimed,'" li kissing the correct thing, please stand aside, gentlemen;and let.thq'ladies advance.'' On another occasion. we (i ,learn, that after the curtail):had fallen anud.'ideafening applause, Mr Booth was embraced ..by every'member of the'cb'Ji'p'any, "except the extra little girls engaged #pam" 1 i'iut. 11s 1 he left tbo- theatre! the; extra little girls were waiting for him |in the hall, and, "in a perfectly aVtlefja and modest manner," one' of (h'eia^'ap- 1 prpached him, and.in.broken, English' said through her ,'itears _: I,'fjilr, Booth, you make us cry j we do want solmuch to, kiss,.you?..We.;da* not know, whether Mr Booth cried>ioufc, ,i\ Mind, Ihe paint I ', oh 1 this occasion. '■ -M>' :