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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XIX, Issue 27, 3 April 1891, Page 29

Advices from St. Petersburg state that whole villages of Jews are being depopulated oa the piutenci that they are forbidden, and in borne instance where the villages are not really wtKin fifty verste. The estates which the Je*s arc compelled to abuidon are be ng obtamtd by land speculator.-* for a mere son;;.

TLe dtatti id annouTCi d, at Bordeaux, of Dr. Kimur.d Sexton William Copiinger. His lather, the descendant of Irish Jacobites, at Borleaux, a-id took refuge at the Involution in England. Dr. Ouppiugi-r was born at Hunpstead. He was c incited at St.' Edmund y College Ware, and m Pans. la 1833 hi sHtied at Bordeaix, and till Ins (loath wai promi lent m all Oath >lie and phil.mUuopic movements.

B iron Hirsch has given 2,400,000 lols, in aid of Hebrews who are bem^diiTen out ct Kus-ia. A b wr J of trustees lv. New York city is to be i,iv< Ht>'d. Fr<>m the income poor Hebrjws will be provided with hmvsand fa>ms. In i his country tcho ilhouses will be butli, and in other wa\s Hebrew immigrants arc to b assisted. Tne charities of Baron Hunch to the poor ot his rtce in Aus na and other parts of Kaiope already a uouot to 12,500,000 i015. Baron Hirsch is 55 years old, has a witt; and no children, aud is reported to have a forcuoe ef lOO.OW.OOOdoIs,