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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XIX, Issue 16, 16 January 1891, Page 31

Powderly is making efforts to have the Farmers' Alliance ioin ißsues with the Knights of Labour. It is stated that tha Karl of Bgmont ig disposing of his Irish property. He has recently sold Lohort Castle, hia charming seat near K-mturk, County Cork, on which be not long ago spent £40 000 to Mr. T 0. O'Brien, the well-known cricketer, who is a nephew of ihe Ute Sir Patrick O'Brien. Mrs. Bernard Beere, an actress, who in tho course of the last ten years has fairly won for herself one of the highest positions in the dramatic profession, has been engaged to perform on the other side of the Atlantic at a minimum salary of £500 a week. Mrs. Bernard Beere is a Catholic. A woman named Purslow is now awaiting trial at Winson-greeo. gaol, accused of next-of-kio frauds. Shu is also said to have posed as an "escaped nun," aad to have related scandalous stories to those who were silly enough to lis'en. It is hardly necessary to add that the statements were base falsehoods. The Russian Government suddenly withdrew from Baring Brothers, the London bankers, £2,200,000 who became financially embarassed. The Bank of England came to the rescue, followed by support from the Scotch bank?. The em ire British banking world has joined in the movemeDt with the greatest alacrity, and the trouble is undoubtedly past,