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flS&Tho Bank of England ia the most exten--Bive banking institution m tbe world. It employs over a thousand clerks, and its build.* ings cover eight aoros. Conversing with the representative of a contemporary about Seddon's death, Joe Warbriok, the captain of the Mapri team, said : " Look hero, old fellow, I'm not naturally superstitious, but you will not blame me if I toll you of a thought that presented itself to me as soon as I hoard the news. I remembered that Ted Raper— the first man that captained n visiting toam from New South Wales to New Zealand — died shortly afterwards ; thai Millton who paid the return visit to Sydney as skipper of our boys, did not long survive ; and, meditating that Seddon was the fust Englishman to lead a football team to the colonies, and that he also has passed away from amongst us, I thought vo myself : ' I wonder if I shall bo the next ! ',<

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