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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 611, 23 May 1891, Page 2

Among the many good stories told by census collectors, is one that an old man refused to sign, saying that he had never voted, and did not want a vote nohow, and was convinced that we would never have a good government until it was compulsory for every member of parliament, to have first reached at least the rank of sergeant in the Salvation Army before he was eligible for election. The Empress of Austria visited Anthens incognito, and was not recognised. 8h« applied for quarters at two hotels, bat was informed that they were fall up. She, however, was accommodated with two rooms in the third. Next day she left Corinth in her yacht on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. The daughter of the Mayor of Liverpool vieited Wombwell’s Menagerie, and named two bsby lions by placing a ribbon round the neck of esoh, one bearing the name “ Lirtr~ pobl 11 and the other" Birkenhead.”