Camilla Urso's best violin, on which she performs, is specially remarked, for the beauty and rarity of its tone. It is a fine specimen of Joseph Guarnerius, the date of its making being 1737. Madame Urso purchased it in London in 1871, and paid 500 guineas for it, and has since refused 50,000 dollars, the offer of an American collector of stringed instruments.
It is said that of the judges of Colonial beer at tho Sydney Exhibition two men have gone since to the lunatic asylum, three have become hopeless drunkards, and one is paralysed. We do not vouch for the truth of this report, but if true it looks bad for Colonial beer. We should imagine that the gentlemen confined their attention to N.S.W. article.
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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 4, Issue 407, 29 June 1880, Page 3
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126Untitled Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 4, Issue 407, 29 June 1880, Page 3
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