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Cromwell Argus, Volume III, Issue 122, 12 March 1872, Page 7

The Ballarat Star gives the following information respecting his Celestial Majesty the Emperor of China :—" The Chinese NewYear's Day that has passed is, we are told by one who got his information from a Chinese source, the eleventh anniversary of the present Emperor of China, Ki Tsiang. The Emperor is eighteen years of age, and entered into the holy bonds of wedlock at the early age of sixteen. Since then he has been married ' considerably,' as Artemns Ward would say, for his subjects in Victoria assert that lie has 11.8 wives. With respect to his children, all we can learn is that he has two sons, the first-born being two years old. Tins almondeyed babe has been proclaimed through the empire as the future ruler. We are further informed that the 118 wives were all presents to Emperor Ki. Tsiang, and it is as much as a subject's head is worth to present him with a wife under fourteen years of age." A clergyman in America, opposed to the introduction of instrumental music iu the church, but overruled by the congregation, gave out the next Sunday morning at the commencement of the service, "Wo will now fiddle and sing Unfollowing hymn,"