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Dunstan Times, Issue 568, 7 March 1873, Page 1 (Supplement)

lii Auckland, 14, 1 19 Shaves in the National Bank were applied for, the total for the Colony being 40,000. At Carroll and Beard’s mine, at Hill’s-end, New South Wales, the crushing has averaged over seventy ounces to the ton. A prosperous merchant, a well-in-formed contemporary says, has for his motto ; —“ Early to bed, early to rise ; never get tight, and advertise.” The saddest instance of misplaced confidence on record is that of a Connecticut man who rescued another from a watery grave only to find that instead of his long-lost brother it was a person to whom he owed three dollar* and a half for turnips. A remarkable engineering feat is in progress, namely, the crossing of the Andes by the Lima and Oroya Bail, way. The mountain will be tunnelled at fifteen thousand feet high, the tunnel being three thousand feet long. The workmen are Oholos Indians, no other men being capable of enduring tire varified atmosphere.