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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1620, 27 February 1884, Page 3

A number of rich men of different nationalities, have been interested in tho project of building a huge casino at Naples, adapted alike to the requirements of summer and winter. The promoters promise every conceivable form of amusement which money will procure and law allow, including for sedate persons, the use of a library of 40,000 volumes, At the last Liverpool Assizes a startling surprise awaited the people who were concerned in the sale of Betsy Wardle for a quart of beer. Betsy was sold by her husband to George Ohisnal, and the purchaser straightway carried his bargain off to church and made her his bride, She was arrested and committed for trial after three years of more or less connubial bliss with her second lord and master, At tho trial Betsy's friends thought all they had to do was to prove the sale to secure a triumphant acquittal. Thon an interesting episode occurred, Mr Justice Penman demanded of Ohisnal: "How did you come to marry this woman ?" Ohisnal, somewhat oblivious, mado answer, "Hoo did aw what?" The question being repeated, ho declared " Aw bowt hor." Whereupon, with his gravest judicial hir, His lordship remarked, " You have committed bigamy yourself. Everybody has committed bigamy in this case." Less with the view of punishment than with the desire of impressing upon the parties that they must not go about selling their wives in this manner, His Lordship sentenced Betsy to . a week's imprisonmentSheffield Telegraph.

It-turns out that tlio announcements recently made concerning Dr KuckV alleged discovery of the" Cholera germ" during his Egyptian investigations was premature, and it appears to have been mado in order to anticipate the announcements of others liko al, Pasteur who aro making inquiries in tho same field,