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Waikato Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 2352, 6 August 1887, Page 2 (Supplement)

The doctoral franchise is being ex tended in the Netherlands.

An employer in a Rhode Island factory town recently paid his employes 700 dols. on Saturday in new bills secretly marked. On the following Monday 400 dols. of these marked bills were placed in bank by the saloon-keepers of the place.— Waterbury American. Mrs Mary Clement Leavitt, in a letter just received, thus describes her recent audience with the King of Siam : “ We ascended a few steps between two rows of men—guards, officials, I know not whom and as we entered the audience room a handsome, smiling gentleman advanced to meet us. I remembered my manners well enough to courtesy three times as I advanced, and the last time was over his Majesty’s hand, for he presented his, led me forward to a chair, and seated himself opposite. Then I sat down. His Majesty understands English perfectly, so that no interpreting was necessary on my side ; but although he speaks English very well, he will not to foreigners. He seemed much pleased at the account of what the Women’s Christian Temperance Union has done and hopes to do, and threw out some very shrewd remarks, but kept me talking most of the time. The audience lasted half an hour, and then I was dismissed as graciously as I was received.”