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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1787, 13 September 1884, Page 4

A Belgian town (Truth states) has )>:iid a somewhat doubtful compliment to Sarah Bernhardt, A street in the Commune of St. Gilles has. long been known as the Rue St. Bernard, but a laicising municipal council has determined to suppres the St, and to name i t Rue Sarah Bernhardt The reason alleged by the council for this choice is that the street in question is long and very narrow, and is accordingly in keeping with (ho personality of the great actress. Ismail Pasha, the ex-Khedive of Egypt who has come to Paris to be present at the 2nd on June (the 'correspondent of the Times reports), of a singular and mysterious assault, Ho hud taken a dive, accompanied by his secretary, to the Palais Royal, and while walking about the gardens was suddenly assailed by a man, who. violently kicked and beat him without warning or any apparent motive, His secretary, who was sauntering in another direction, only came up when the aggressor had escaped, The exKhedive, who was badly bruised was taken to a jeweller's in the Gallery, where he soothed himself with a glass of water and some extract of orange blossoms. He was then driven to the Grand Hotel where he is staying. The aggressor is supposed to be a young Italian, who wag formerly secretary "to tha ex-Viceroy.