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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XVI, Issue 50, 5 April 1889, Page 31

The boi c>i Justin McCarthy, M.P., of the same name and also a Home Rnlo M.1., and a brilliant literary worker, has met with a severe affliction and ha 9 broken down in health. He was engaged to be married to a lovely girl, the daughter of Mr. Toole. the famous comedian. A short time ago Miss Toolc contracted typhoid fever, and after a ehort illuessdiel. The shock was so terrible to young Justin McCarthy that be was prostrated, and his health seems completely shattered. His sister has taken him to Algeria, where their father will soon join them. The afflicted family have international sympathy. Ihe Government has dispensed with the services of Mr. H. O. Astvtood, our over-enterprising consul at San Domingo, because he endorsed the offer of a speculator, named Lincll, to hire the remains of Christopher Columbus for exhibition in this country. The sbowmau pr mused to pay at least 200,000d015. a year to the Dominican Government, but, strange to say, the offer was not accepted. It is not so h<*rd now to believe that an American tuiiliocaire had the "cheek" to ask the French Government to li'a c c him the Arch of Triumph to grace his daugh'cr'd marnaye ceremony with a foreign duke.— Pilot.