NEWS IN BRIEF.
The last of the English Fenian prisoners has been released. The distress m the North of England is almost equal to the Cotton Famine. Mr. Henry B. Foot, J. P., of Carrigacanna Castle, Cork, has died at the alleged age of 100. London has been gradually making all her bridges free. Last month Waterloo bridge was put on the free list. A new style of shade hat with a > wide, flexible brim, to be bent to suit the wearer, is called the " Ninety and Nine. Stanley, the explorer, has been engaged by Mr. D'Oyley Carte to deliver 100 lectures m England upon his last journey m Africa. The total number of cases' of yellow fever since the outbreak m New Orleans is estimated at 30,000— 0f which 12,000 have proved fatal. j
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume 6, Issue 593, 7 January 1879, Page 2
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