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  2. MISCELLANEOUS.

    The Tasmanian loan has been favourably received, and is already quoted at a premium of 1½ (or 98½), and it is expected that the price realised will reach 99 or 100. The loan will be ...

    Article : 1,995 words
  3. THE WINE HARVEST OF 1888.

    In a review of the vintage of last year, Mr. G. Thorne, 34 Seething-lane, London, writes to the Times that 13,500,000 gallons of foreign wines were cleared for home consumption in ...

    Article : 532 words
  4. THE DUKE OF NEWCASTLE.

    The little Duke of Newcastle (says the Social Gossip correspondent of the Melbourne Argus) has lately been married to an unassuming girl of 17, a daughter of a well-known sportsman in ...

    Article : 367 words
  5. THE CUSTOM OF "TREATING."

    The legislator who introduced a bill in the Pennsylvania Legislature making treating an offence punishable by a fine of not more than $1000, proposes a measure that, could it be ...

    Article : 251 words
  6. MARRIAGE A SUCCESS.

    Three newspapers, the New York World, the New York Journal, and the Philadelphia Press, have recently interviewed a lot of old bachelors in New York and Philadelphia on their reasons ...

    Article : 323 words
  7. MORGANATIC MARRIAGES.

    The following are the more remarkable morganatic marriages of Continental princes during the present century:— The Duke of Berri. afterwards heir presumptive to the ...

    Article : 210 words
  8. THE EARL OF CARNARVON ON AUSTRALIA.

    The Earl of Carnarvon has recorded (says a correspondent of the Melbourne Argus) in an article published in the current number of the Fortnightly Review, the impressions he brought ...

    Article : 888 words
  9. THE MAXIM GUN.

    The Maxim gun has now been freely adopted by the English army for field service. It has been sent to Bechuanaland for the police force, with mounted equipment; also to Natal, the ...

    Article : 210 words
  10. A MODERN DIOGENES.

    Some time ago a wealthy man died in Brussels leaving nearly his entire fortune to a young woman who was quite unacquainted with him. The American Art ...

    Article : 235 words
  11. COMMERCIAL TELEGRAMS.

    At yesterday's public auction of Australasian tallow 1725 casks were offered, and 350 casks were sold. Mutton, medium, realised 24s. 6d. per cwt., and beef, medium, 23s. 6d. ...

    Article : 127 words
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