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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1715, 20 June 1884, Page 3

■Jem-Ward, once and English'champion pugilist, is dead, aged 84. Eiftynine years ago he won the championship of England by bating Torn Cannon in ten minutes. ! o.cir Wilde (in conjunction with Lord Tennyson, -Robert Browning, and others) Is to write for the book which is to commemorate the coming Shakespearian show at the Royal Albert Hall. The editor of a comic journal in Madrid has been sentenced to eight years' imprisonment for the publication several months ago of a caricature considered to be offensive to the Ifmg of Spain. M. Yertan, writing to Figaro upon fraud in art, declares that not less than 70,000 pictures ascribed to D'Aubigny exist at presrat and:believes that in another hundred years the number will be a million, Sixty-eight months' imprisonment were inflicted in 1883 on the editors of six newspapers in the province of Posen alone. At tho present time their are only two editors of political papers that aro out of prison. There aro 1,007 - miles of railway open lor traffic in South Australia, "tiftd. counting lines in construction and authorised, tho grand total is 1,474} miles, The total cost of tho railways to December 31,1883, was £G,900,360,

In Saxony it has been ordered tlmt in future no female singer under twentyone'years of age, and no actress or dancer (whether native or foreigner) under seventeen, will be allowed to appear in any place of amusement. Miss Mary Anderson contemplates a.vnifc to Verona to study Juliet in the city where occurred the incidents of Shakespeare's play. On her way thither she will visit, at Genoa, Mrs Cowden Clarke, the well-known Shake-, gierian scholar, The Rev J, do le Hoy, pastor of Breslau, in a recent article has shown that 1500 .Jews are annually received into the Christian Churches by baptism. And that many of these are men of education and position,

IMPOUNDING NOTICE. MASTERTON, Young Say Draught Horse, (rig or entire,) star on forehead, dark points, not shod. If not released will bo sold July 9th at noon; Damages: eix pounds, ' 1715 G. A, BOWSER. A 'GENERAL Meeting of the Mastd'tonOpaki Jockey Club will bo held in the Club Hotel on BATUEDAY next, 21st inßt., at 8 o'clock. B.J.HTTON, 1713 Secretary. SIGNOE OTTO HUG-, THE CELEBRATED ■SWISS MEDICAL CLAIRVOYANT TJAS arrived iuMasterfcon, andwill remain, until tho l!)th of Juno at the Club Eotel, He leaves Masterton on the 19th by tho •first train for Grey town, and will remain there' until the 23rd : at Hammerich's Hote], He leaves on Monday tho 23rd, by tho first faain for Wellington,'