Two Suffering Monarchs.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 325, 15 December 1888, Page 5

Two Suffering Monarchs.

Tin. visib oi the Empeior William to Rome is like a moial eaithquake. I learn fiom private lelteis that one half of the confusion and hritation that it is creating is untold in now-paper circles, and that were the journey ot his majesty still undecided upon c\en Kins; flumbcit would be<i to be excused. The King i^ \eiv ill, iar moie so (.ban he knows himself oi tho court believer. 1 am assured that his> condition is voiy much like that" of Kin» Alphousc was a few months before hi& death. Queen Margaret tiies to appear cheerful, bul <he is fast losing courage, as the morning; news is hi ought her of the nightly attendance of two or more physicians at h'jr husband's bedside. Consumption is fast wasting tho iron constitution and energy of the Kino- of Italy, and this is all the more serious because at no time has much faith been placed in the life nf the young Prince. This exp'ains somewhat tho keen interest shown in the marriage of tho Duke of Aobta. Empeior William is ill, too. Reports here add that the tiresome ear malady of the young sovereign i.« slow and constant torture, pioducincf in part a seeming in?ane desire for continual motion and excitement. Add to this suffering tho thunderbolt of the publication of his father's journal, with the assurance that there ife plenty more of tho same kind to come, and it can be jadged that it is not so pleasant a matter, even to the ironclad German Monarch. France has thus far been faithful to her discretion, and the published comments on the Emperor Frederick's memoirs arc scarcely underlined with satisfaction.—' Paris Loiter.'

There is no limit to the ape at which a man may make a iool of himself. A doctor must understand all tongues. A turning-point. — A bayonet. Kussia is colonising Abyssinia. The White Pasha in AtVica is believed at Cairo Lo be Stanley. 'Ron. Air Scotland, j\J.L.C, i& on a visit f to Auckland. Loid Balfour, of Burleigh, declines to bo Governor of Queensland. The Akarana won the St. Kilda gold medal with 16 minutes to spare.