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Waikato Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 2531, 29 September 1888, Page 2 (Supplement)

Washington is proud of the fact that not one Congress man smokea cigarettes. A son of one of the wealthiest and best-known members of the Victorian Parliament is a porter on the New South Wales Railways. The political parent ia a firm believer in making his sons earn theiro own living and commence their career on their own resources. A tklegram from Vienna states that Count TaafFe, after taking into consideration the ever-increasing riumber of Alpine accidents, lias addressedJa circular to the authorities concerned, inviting them to reduce the established tariffs for guides, to build huts of refuge, and to take other precautions. Father Damibn, the self-sacrificing priest who went to Molkai, the leper island in the Sandwich group, to console and help the wretched people whom tho rest of mankind shun with terror, has himself succumbed to the disease. " His face, ears, neck, and arms are covered with boils and swellings."