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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1763, 16 August 1884, Page 2

A London correspondent writejmw Stevenson Blackwood told a good rtwy at a meeting of the Young Abstainers' Union the other day. An officer at a royal garden party had partaken a little too freely of iced champagne and claret cup provided on such occasions, and, while strolling about the garden, happened to meet the Queen. . He addressed her Majesty in the following termsßeally madam-hic—l've sheen your face somewhere, but—hio, hic-I c-c-cant life of me recollect where!" . The Straits Times Gives particif.4®l an atrocious case of piracy which was committed at Singapore by some half dozen Malays. The pirates, it appears, boarded a tongkang containing a few piculs of rice, manned by five Chinese, murdered four of them, and chopped off the hands and cut the throat of the other, after which they proceeded to rifle the tongkano. A pilot, who waß passing in a steam launch, seeing that there was aome« thing wrong on board the tongkang, approached her; thereupon the Malavs manned their boat and made for the launch. Seeing what was their intentioij the pilot ran the boat down. The saved themselves by swimming to ajjeef, and they were subsequently mptnrtfflfc Some weeks ago we wrote thaTOlr Howard Yincent, head of the English detective police, would contest a seat in Parliament. He has now resigned his position, and. 1 purposes .'visiting Canada, New Zealand, Australia and India, so as to get correct views on politics. •", .