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Waikato Times, Volume XXX, Issue 2492, 30 June 1888, Page 2

Mr .1. S, Bucklaud v• j]I shortly hold a sale of trees :it Mr J. .SL:i' p's nursery. By tiie Copyright Rill, passed by I lie United States Senate, each number of a periodical is registered as an independent publication, subject to copyrights. A uiuxtii'V of .jewellery, valued at 70,000 francs, slated to belong to a son of the late M. Iv.UkolV, was stolen at the railway station at Ueneva. 'I'm: Shangahi correspondent of the Standard telegraphs " There has been a terrible flood in the Canton River, in which 3,000 people have been drowned. A severe earthquake is reported from Japan." .1 Ki'.usAi.Kji is rapidly becoming again the city of the .1 ews. In IN,SO there were, probably, not more than .">,OOO Jews there; now thei e are more than .'>o,ooo. The recent persecution!, in Russia have led thou sands of them to seek a home in their ancient city. A wooioon' farmhouse, near Ailington, Xebras ka, was burnt recently. The neighbours who saw the (ire went to the rescue, but I'mud i.nly the charred remains of seven human beings. Dim il.uiL'hter. who was :il><en{ is the only survivor of the family. An a.---":ia!i.>n for reform in hair-dressing has iic'u slarfed in Japan, because the ludiiw have been iu the habit of wasting so much of their limo over this part of their toilet. AI! the. ladies of the, party nf pro<r;) e-s have, joined it, ami the oitl-fashioned models of coiffure are only adhered to by some of the strictly conservative dames. A Xw Sl.lsnomi:ri-:s;.---At the Jubilee Khmer Show at Vienna a, tropic <i plant lielonjjisiK 1" il;« order of the mimosu: is 11• • i11l; cxhibitvd, the owner ol which claims to be able to foreLnll storms and earthquakes forty-eight hours in advance by observing tin; appearance and position of the most sensitive leaves of the plant. The Cost of the plant is about t't',. Mr J. S. Auckland will sell at Oliaupn, on Tuesday, 100 acres of virjjiu laud at Ti) Kap.