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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 1961, 10 April 1885, Page 2

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-v- f :■-■" .'Joachim JV, the. newly glebed ,|lat]:j;-. 1 arch.of ijnd.tije^prituaj' : head of thji whole (3reek Ojiurch, 1 adherents prober iQO,OOQ,6'QO, is a' pin 4ying sipwly of goMPiptiQih laid ta be • • destitute of eitherllterniy, administrative,' 1 or .financial ability, whose now: elevated rank is due to his personal insignificance.' 1 '.A Dakota Judge the other day .left his bench(it was a pine board) and knocked / down a lawyer who had called him a liar. Then He went 'b'iqk and ti|e case pror--1 ceefos. ''" • - '■• ''' ! " 1 " Th^'American Claimant to theTiclj; bonis fijjjatos, lias'beep arrested'in Ghipgna cJiftpgeflfbigHpiy. fti-appparg that he has been arrested no fewer than :jj eiyht times, and Bix of his wives:style ■•■ themselves " Lady Tichborne." jtk ■ "There is no greater mistake," $y he St'. James' Gazette, "than the notion that Kbrfqum js to bj abandoned. We knew. • '"' thatourQovemmepfsay fhaljti§ but'.then they fancy that the queptjpn is •• f ' pne.'whic]| they alorjo have tq set&. ; ' ThhY nation seems, to be s,ha'ied by tlfgountry gS'ij'jraJJyi bujitis an error, 'l«roj)fißft - concert will haye sqmeth|ng to. aayonthin •/• subject at the right time, whioh is rapidly : approaching; and what should be antjcl, pated if our Government say 'Now let KfiaHoum be abandoned to native rulg and'the Soudan with it down tQ this or " thMljne,' they will hoar from some other ' • Government that that cannot be. They • wil say' that it is necessary for the pence : and Jfell-being of Egypt that noither Khartoum, nor Berber, nor the Soudan : in general should be delivered over to a ■'•' slave .trade regime, and to murder and •"?■ Ww wprie than that which on- •'"' Jliw-ttppn lord •Wolseley's arrangement: ~x .m Zululftnd. Should fogland turn a deaf . ■' 6 and march her, .: .. p^Jp°P» and the Egyptian authority., out; the inert question for thoPowfi will- •• probablyvbe -which of .them shall Jiavch •■ it« troops in. This, perhaps, is one of the points which Hassan Fehmi, envoy of the Unspeakablo Turk, is coming to talk ovor with Mr Gladstone," -. Regarding tjie damage done to the'- ~ Tower by the recent dynamite explosion:; ". ; Hie London correspondent of a contem. ■ •• porary mys!—"lt is estimated that £IOOO will cover the damage Atoe by the • I explosion in the Towtjr,, TKJpxplosion '' in the House of Commons did more injury . \ to the upholstery, but even there it is- /. estimated that everything can be restored • / for less than £IO.OOO. -We hare not yet v\ heard how much it will cost to repair th<L,,f v ' broken glass'jn Westminster'M, hut'. % \ will probably be Jess %i'n' ! jjjSdOO; j On the whole, £20,000 ; represents '; the outside damage done, by the i three carefully planned oxploalona' about ; which all the world is talking, No' one , was killed, about a'score of men, women and children wero slightly injured ; two • policemen have lost their hearing, and that • ■ is all. A wretched twopenny-halfpenny : affair it is, to be sure, says the Pall Mall :.- Gazette,: and one which ought to be most -.vl: reassuring, and even comforting, to all ',• those who have wafched the 'progress of the struggle'between society"ah'd'tli'e -v demons of dynamite, For, what d» it : : I prove? This huge London of oflr.<n % which are the nerve centres of the Entire, ■.■:[ the rulers of our world-encircling . \ realm, .crowded as it is-with vast and ' [ incalculable treasures of ey'ery kind, haa • | been exposed for two years and more to' : \ the attach of conspirators whfe'have the < whole armoury of qpjencfl aO% diappsal ' ■ : p,f agepts free; and 1 V remorge. Never! was sbyasVvulnerablJi ; ' a target 'exposed to the malice and IniceP: uity of the soldiers of despair. Andnpft •■ after two vears campaigning;int|iecourse '.: ■ of whioh they have made nearly a dozen -4« different have they done I :t Altogethertheynayenotdonemoredamage '••= than £20,000 make; good.' ■■'.' killed a .dren.fvire, '"blocked / •arailwayi'destfoyed.a'buildingy.Qfin any j :'■'; way checked ; for a moment fch,eVven flow ' '' of, English life, ■'",