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Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1975, 20 October 1888, Page 3

The New Zealand Shipping Company's shares are quoted m Wellington at £1 2s 6d per share. We are now making guns which cost upwards of £20,000 e*ach, and General Alderson has stated before ihe Army Estimates Committee that the oost pi firing a single shot from one of these guns would be over £200. It is by no means certain that the gun could be fired with safety ; it is Quite certain that after every 150 rounds at the utmost it would bavo to be relined. This number of rounds would oost £30,000, and then there would be the expense of repairing the gun. Could there be imagined a more ezpedilious plan of getting rid of money wholesale ? Two fearful orimes are reported from Pesth. In the one oase a tailor, named Gnadig, poured through a funnel molted lead into the right ear of his sleeping wife. Finding Bho was not dead, the wretph then, proceeded to strangle her, but was interrupted by the arrival of the neighbors, who found the un* fortunate woman still alive, but m a desperate condition. The murdorer is still at large, The other oatfe is that of a butcher, who fired a revolver at his brother-in-law, and, believing he was dead, went home and killed his viotim's obild, a baby ten months old. He then attempted to commit suioide.

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