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New Zealand Times, Volume LVII, Issue 2543, 22 June 1895, Page 1 (Supplement)

By the Sultan's orders the sale op exhibition of portraits of Mr Gladstone and Mr Bryce has been prohibited in Constantinople. Some copies sent to an Armenian clergyman have been seized and destroyed as “ seditious literature.”

At the Russian town of Reni, at the junction of the Pruth and the Danube, a rich find was made lately of gold coins of the time of Philip of Macedon, the father of Alexander the Great. They are in excellent preservation, and 512 of them have already- been seized by the police and sent to St. Petersburg. A young woman was one of the competitors in a one-legged race near Paris the other day. She did not win, but the publication of her name has brought her a fortune, a lawyer having long been on the search for a woodenlegged woman of that name, a large sum having boon left her by a relative. At Liverpool the other day two stones weighing olb were discovered in the stomach of a fish of the ling species weighing 151 b. Tho stones had been used as sinkers for a dcop-aea fishing lino, and tho fish did not appear to have suffered any- inconvenience from their presence.

A Nottingham giant, Brough hy name, is on exhibition. He is 23years old, stands Bft in his socks, and measures oyer -17 in round the chest. At the ago of 12 he stood over Gft, and working as a miner, he received man’s pay. His grandfather was over 7£t in height, but his parents and brothers and sisters are of average stature.