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Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 103, 28 October 1896, Page 2

Not to be Tipped. — Dumb waiters. The usual fortnightly meeting of Oddfellows' Lodge will be held in the Foresters' Hall on Friday evening next. The oldest man in the world, according to a German statistician, is a negro named Bruno Cotrim, who was born in Africa and is now resident in Bio de Janeiro. Bruno is believed to have completed his century and a half. The next oldest is supposed to be a retired cabman of Moscow who is 140 years old. The same investigator finds that there are 46 persons above 100 years old in Scotland, 146 in England, 578 in Ireland, 78 in Germany, and 213 in France. Have you seen the ladies' bicyoles at J. Darragh's ? Prices to suit the times, from Lls to L 25. Newest style and best English makes. — Advt. John Cobbe has made most extensive preparations for the coming season's business, up to the present he has received 61 cases and bales, direct from London, whilst other shipments are . on the way. He has also secured the services of a milliner who has had a n amber of" years experience with Messrs Milne and Ghoyce, who do the most fashionable millinery business ia Auckland, pis dressmaking department is I gaining a high reputation for the style