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Manawatu Times, Volume V, Issue 114, 5 February 1881, Page 3

An amusing joke has just been played upon the Bishop af Greenoble France. A loral newspaper printed a violent Republican speech by a yoo'.l Bishop's diocese, which so excited his ire that he immediately published a letter very severely rebuking him for plunging in,o secular things and threatening to dismiss him from his priestly function. But it turns out that, tlfe obnozions speech wns delivered in 1796, and ils author has been riead fifty years. A constable while conveying prisoners to Salford Gaol in the police van, lost the warrants of commitment, and did not discover the mishap until he was about to hand over the prisoners. He had to drive them back to Kochdale.andthen they were se^iberty.the wareanetb rants not having found. ' A French statist has come to the conclusion, after a very laborious examination of the number of death.! from rail-way-accidents in all part" of the world, that, if ;i person were to live enufinally in a railway-carriage and spend all hi,s time in travelling, the chances in favor of his dying from railway-accident would not occur until he was nine hundred and sixty years old.