ROUND THE WORLD.
A parliamentary return, moved for by Mr John Talbot, M.P., has been issued;' j stating the number of deaths in the j metropolitan district : .during last yea? I from starvation, or of deaths accelerated ■ j by privation, This . shop ffyat were o? deaths, into the cause of which coroner's jnqijeqte were held—namely, eight in the central division of Middlesex, 26 in the eastern division, two in the western division, and ojie in the wich division qf Kent. The Arizona editor has got into trouble,' He explains it thus:—"We edit our paper this week from the gaol, where we are living for the present. We have been put in the jug for a month because wo resented an insult offered ub by the pinfeather journalist who tries to run ap opposition paper in this town, But if hq • thipks he w'ill muzzle the' Press in "this way lie is mistaken.'-'' Like Edmund we shall crime out of gaol stronger than ever, and shall take our plage in tlio world with renoiyed strength, A ijjjjth is not a long time to a man with aTOwcience, which is ouv case, We wouw request our friends to turn in all items ' of news to the gentlemanly gaolor, who will give' them to üb."
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 2086, 4 September 1885, Page 2
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212ROUND THE WORLD. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 2086, 4 September 1885, Page 2
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