Ia parts of Asia and Africa where grass will not grow the most beautiful flowers and’shpubs flourish to perfection. The number of languages and dialects apoken in the world amounts to over 30001 A Customs question arose on the arrival of the steamer lonic from South Africa at Hobart. Some passengers for Melbourne named Bouvray were accompanied by a South African native servant, who had been employed by them for five years, and they were desirous of retaining her. The authorities at Capetown told them, upon Bouvray signing a declaration ! to send her back if she desired to leave them, that it would be right. But tho: law was imperative, and, although the passenger stated that he would do anything in reason, the girl was not permitted to land until the agents of the steamer signed a bond for £IOO that she would be returned by the' first beatr, to South' Africa from iflel’ bourne, ’ ?
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Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1524, 4 August 1905, Page 2
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155Page 2 Advertisements Column 6 Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1524, 4 August 1905, Page 2
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