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Waikato Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 2385, 22 October 1887, Page 2 (Supplement)

Tin; daily expenses at Buckingham Palace during the .lubilco are believed to have amounted to ,C!,dOO. A Pants widow named Belligand, who murdered her lover with vitriol, has been sent to prison for life. Tilt; Parliament of Brazil is now considering a Bill providing for the final stages of emancipation, and it will pass. The income of the Free Church of Scotland last year,for foreign missions, was £117,2’-!). the largest sum ever realised by tiie church for that purpose. There are in the missions 27 principal and 1.10 branch stations ; 40 ordained, 4 medical, 22 teaching, and 28 female missionaries (beside 81 missionaries’ wives) ; 24 native teachers, 11 Kuropean evangelists and artisans, 104 native helpers, 0,20(1 communicants and 11i.014 pupils in schools. A Gosti.v W.umox. A family waggon belonging to one of a wealthy tribe of gipsies is a very costly affair. Its ie.'ciior is fitted up in Oriental splendour, with rich gilr, carvings and in'id 1 wood designs, and sumptuously upholstered. The iici'iiniiimdalions are arranged somewhat after the plan of the Pullman sleeping coach. Largo plate glass windows swinging on bingos and provided with heavy raw silk curtains, are on both sides, and a stained glass window uruninents the rear. Those waggons, of which there are five, are for women and children. The kitcbcu utensils are eairied under the waggons, ami all the cm king is done in the open air. The temperate, sanitary, out-door life of those people is conductive to good health, and sickness among thorn while on their travels is an imnsiial thing.