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New Zealand Tablet, Volume IX, Issue 468, 31 March 1882, Page 17

A railroad conductor is the latest convert to go into the revival business. He will find the course all the clearer for him since Moody and Sankey are abroad and the converted circus clown, Watte, has fallen from grace and pone out of the business. Converted plumbers and gas-meter men are next in order. — Pilot. The World says : " 1 have read several times lately, in the news from Ireland, of lads being arrested for whistling at tbe police th>? air of ' Harvey Duff, ' the latest offender being but thirteen years of age and the day Christmas Day. As Ido not know the subject of this objectionable song, I am naturally a little astonished at such severe measures being taken against mere boys, especially when I recollect that many years ago the urchins of London had full enjoyment of the liberty to call after every ' peeler ' the question, ' Who stole the goose ' 1 in memory of a too toothsomely larcenous member of tbe force. " London, Jan. 16. — The Berlin correspondent of tbe Daily Nem writes as follows :—": — " There are signs apparent of unpleasantnes • between Prince Bismark and the Crown Prince Frederick William. The.Cbancellor is in bad temper. He is by no means satisfied with the reception the Emj)eror's rescript met in England. " A sacrilegious outrage has been perpetrated in the Catholic chapel of Ballinrobe. Several of the statues were broken with stones. " A man named Dunbridge has been arrested in connection with the affair. It is stated that Mr. Wendell Phillips, the great American orator — the greatest master of the English language, as Mr. Bright says — .ia preparing an autobiography.