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Waipawa Mail, Volume X, Issue 1034, 15 January 1887, Page 3

Tlic subject of address to-morrow eveniug at St. Peters curch will be “ What is Christianity ? ’ The Onga Onga Racing Club’s committee met recently, when it was found that there is a balance of about £BO to commence operations with next season. The owner of Larrikin ( MasseyJ was fined £5 for not scratching the horse and not running him. Madame Patti has started on her American tour. She is to receive £30,000 for six months’ work. That sum is to be net; all her travelling expenses are to be paid. Her tour will take her through an enormous tract of country, including Cinciuatti, Mexico, San Francisco, Cleveland, Montreal Boston, Washington. A special train has been built for her. The cars are few, for her troupe is not large. It includes Nicolini Mdme. Scalchi, Signor and Mdme. Novara, a young French tenor named Guille, whom Mdme Patti herself discovered, Arditi and an orchestra of five-and-Twenty • Every performance will be in two parts—the first a concert and the second an act of an opera i in which Patti will appear ; as a rule there will be but two representations each week. Patti’s railway car, which has been just built will be a furnished house on wheels, with music-room, bathroom, bedrooms, kitchen, and servants’ accommodation. Her maids and man servant she imports from Europe but two cooks will join the troupe at New York. The Life OF an M.P. —An M.P. dcploriDg the evil effects of London habits on the health, said that were it not for the American Co’s Hop Bitters he could not live through with the irregular hours he was forced to keep. Said he ; “As soon as I feel weak and exhausted from long night sessions and meals at irregular hours, I resort to my Hop Bitters instead of .stimulants. They regulate my bowels and keep my appetite good, by brain clear, and my strength and health are preserved.” bee