An -American paper says Dr Tanner is not dead, and has not been to Amsterdam, where lie is circumstantially supposod tt have met his death under curiously dramatic circumstances. The doctor has never been out of the United States, and is said to be in training for another starvation fe.it, which he promises shall lust over ninety days.
SIX Mackay (the great silver mine proprietor) lias received a. letter from a. projector, who proposes that Mr Mackay should {."iiniioh ;i hundred million cloHnrs to e;i!tl)l« him to (my up all tho #oat 3in thy world. Having quickly collected them they would bo able to monopolise the kid glove trade. Of co'irse the proprietor would stand in half the profits. Mr M-iekay, however appeal's lo consider th;it ho '):■; quite rich enough filro.idv, without destroying the trade of -louvin and Lent.
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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume VI, Issue 550, 21 October 1881, Page 2
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139Untitled Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume VI, Issue 550, 21 October 1881, Page 2
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