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Ashburton Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 1008, 30 July 1883, Page 4

The Spectator has been estimating, on the' baais- of the statements respecting wills which appear regularly in the Illustrated London News, how many millionaires have died in Great Britain in the course of bhe last ten years, and gives the names' of seventeen persons whose personal property alone amounted to a million or mote. Baron Lionel de Rothschild heads the array with L 2,700,000, and Mr John Pemberton, of Heywood, Liverpool, was a good second, with L1,9C0,000. Besides these tremendously Wealthy seventeen, fifty-two persons left more than half-a-million, and one hundred and'ninety-five more than a quarter of a million. A, r&ther peculiar wager was recently lost and paid in Melbourne. The item of news' ‘concerning the duplication of the Suez Ckmal was under discussion, and the conversation incidentally drifted to the date of the commencement of the first prothrough the Isthmus of Suez. People were puzzling themselves about the year, when a little man present said: —“ldori’t knew the exact year, but it was some centuries before the birth of Christ.’’ A laughter of incredulity greeted the speaker, but he was positive. A wager was made, and the next day the little man triumphantly, produced an un questionable authority to certify that Kek&s or Nechos the Second, who ruled Egypt some five hundred, years 8.0., planned and started a canal across the Isthmus of Suez but desisted from the task upon the advice of the Oracle, after bq had lost, over 100,000 men in attempting;to do what the present century has seen accomplished. It isn’t a good thing to mqke rash wagers with people who have a good memory on the history that they read. Bad dreams, disturbed sleep, indigestion, stomach gas, all vanish before Hop Bitters. R&d and ponder. —[Advt.] Mother Swan’s worm Syrup.— lnfallible, tasteless, harmless, cathartic; for feverishness, restlessness, worms, constipation, is. Moses, Moss add Co., Sydney, General Agents. 3 Holloway’s Pills. LiVer Complaints. I —The digestion cannot be long so seriously disordered without the de-rangement-being perceptible on the countenance. These pills prevent both unpleasant consequences ; they improve the appetite and with the increase of desire for food, they augment the powers of digestion and assimilation in the stomach. Holloways Pills deal most satisfactorily with deranged or diseased conditions ofthe many organs engaged in extracting hourishment for our bodies from our various * diets—as the liver, stomach, and bowels, 1 over all of which they exercise the most solitary control. By resorting at an early stage , of; this malady to these purifiying and laxative. Pills, the dyspeptic is speedily restored to health and strength, and his sallowness gradually vanishes, —[Advt.] Wanted parties about to furnish to know that I. Meech is selling all his goods at a sacrifice, 1 being over-stocked and wanting the modeyV : I>rawing-room Suites from £lO ios, warranted }'Good Bed-room Suites, remarkably!- Idw; Drawing-room: Fancy Walnut Tables, Japanese Tables, a splendid Inlaid Walnut' Sideboard, Marble Slab, with Plate Glass! bahk, to be sold cheap. Iron Bedsteads, Crockery-ware, and every requisite for houie furnishing etc.' Funerals conducted on the (Cheapest scale. Practical workmen kept in jdl ite branches. Agent for the celebrated. .Venetian Blind Makers, Dunedin. 1 Carvings’ and Turnery of every kind. All kinds of furniture exchanged and highest price given f<)K furniture. Note the address—Next BufidcxV Arcade; A.hburton.

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