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Manawatu Times, Volume II, Issue 25, 13 January 1877, Page 3

A shocking story readies the "Woili" correspondent from Marseilles :— ln the annals of the stage I know none more tragic or more disgraceful to an audi-' ence. Mddle. Priola, a well-known Parisian artiste, lately made her "debut" at the (rrand. Theatre at Marseilles, and was hissed, bjL certain cowardly occupiers of the stalls, from first to last. Of course she threw up her engagement ; .but the nervous excitement, and 'the' emotions produced by so different a reception from what she was accustomed to m Paris, acted fatally qn a too suscep-. tible organisation, already enfeebled by a slight, attack of bronchitis. As a fact the: poor. girl was. literally hissed to death. V G-us. : " How.canxe this dead fly m my soup ? "— r-Waiter : "In fact,; sir, I have no positive idea howthe-popr thing came by his death. Perhaps it hiacj not taken any food for a long time; dashed upon the- soup, ate too much: of it, arid thus contracted an-inflammatioif o:f the stomach that, brought- on ; death. The fly 'must hay.c had a weak ... qonstitution, f6r wheril servedjup the soup it was dancing merrily oh ''the surface. - Perhaps — and the idea presents itself 6nly at this moment— it endeavoured- to-' swallow too large a piece of vegetable ; this remaining fast m the throat,' and producing a choking .m, ; the windpipe, may have caused the death of that hapless insect." . "