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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXI, Issue 3, 4 November 1892, Page 31

A Chinaman having to give evidence at Bow street, was aßked how he preferred to be sworn. " Oh," said the Celestial, " kill 'im cock, break 'im plate, smell 'im book, all sanaey." There is nothing like an Oriental for really broad views in religious matters. The death is announced of Baron de Habert, a convert from Judaism to Catholicity, as well as bis wife, Mmc Beer, niece of the celebrated composer, Meyerbeer. He had been decorated by the French Government in recompense for his efforts, in conjunction with M. Pouyer Quertier, to make the payments at Frankfort of tbs war ransom which brought about the liberation of the territory. He obtained his naturalisation as a French citizen at the same epoch,—