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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXVII, Issue 101, 1 May 1893, Page 2

A young girl, inmate of a hospital near Pari?, had been five months in a trance. Pricking with pins failed to arouse her, but she awoke on being touched with a hob iron. Three little children were burned to death in London during the absence in each instance of tho mother. Sixteen infanta worn overlain by their mothers in London ia one week, Caina's antipathy to railways ia abating. The line from Tientsin to Taku has now been extended to the river Lan, a total distance of 130 miles, and is being rapidly pushed northward. A considerable section is already opened for passenger traffic. Some news of a welcome character comes from Belfast— that a spring of petroleum ha 3 been discovered near that city. Should the anticipations of experts be realised, a new industry for distressed Ireland is promised. The directors of the Oxford Music-Hail, London, have made a bid for popularity in a new direction. The wrestling lion was perhaps naturally to be expected after the boxing kangaroo— which, by the way, having made a >tir in England, is now only le>-> attractive to the Parisian than the dances of Mif-.s Loie Fuller, Prince ia a CaUYaiiau livu, &ix year* of age^