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Waikato Times, Volume 2507, Issue XXXI, 4 August 1888, Page 2 (Supplement)

Eugesib, ex-Empress, is said to have developed strange idiosyncrasies, besides being a recluse. One is a tendency to Spiritualism and a belief that she can commune with her dead Prince Imperial. It is well understood that she intends to make Princess Beatrice of England her heiress. The Ttangitikei Advocate : —Cadets are not altogether an unmixed blessing. A well-known settler in the Cadet business instructed one of his embryo farmers to kill a wether for the house during his absence from home. On his return he was fairly staggered to see his assistant putting the finishing touch, in a most business-like manner, on his best Lincoln ram, which happened to be running in the same paddock as the killing sheep. We understand that his language on this, particular occasion was painful and free. At first, newspaper correspondent shrank from even mentioning the esti mated number of the dead resulting from the overflow of the Yellow river, but there is every reason to believe that the calculation by the European, who is most in the secrets of the Government of Pekin, is nowise exaggerated, and that it is probable that about 7,000,000 out of the 25,000,000 inhabitants of the province of Honau have perished ; notwithstanding that by clinging to planks and floating furniture, a vast number succeeded in eventually reaching the district beyond the reach of the waters,