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New Zealand Times, Volume XLIII, Issue 7214, 9 July 1884, Page 3

A communication to tho Geographical Society of Paris, from tho French consul at Bataris, says that the disappearance of more than 38,000 persons, overwhelmed by the earthquake in tho neighbourhood of the Strait of Sunda, has been recorded and verified. This statement the consul received from the lips of the Dutch governor himself. The city of Lyons has just fallen heir to the large fortune of Mine, do Cuzien, a lady cightynine years of ago who had long been known as tho most eccentric inhabitant of that city. For thirty years she made it her business to embitter the lives of the various prefects and mayors by ingenious annoyances, the consequences of which she escaped by her marvellous knowledge of law. Once, in order to spite a neighbor whom she disliked, she had a high tower erected from which she watched his every movement, ringing an immense bell at any hour of tho night. On another occasion she invited a number of her acquaintances to meet M. Duoros, tho Prefect of Lyons, at her house. When they arrived they were led, with great ceremony, to a pig on a dunghill. All her eccentricities, however, will be forgiven in view of her bequests, amounting to 15,000,000 francs, which, however, will benefit those of her own sex only. 'Vor continuation of news set fourth page.)