Germany possesses 3,000,000 trained soldiers. The blue "Hope" diamond is without doubt the one which was stolen from the crown of an Indian Rajah parly in the seventeenth century and brought to France by that romantic traveller Jean Baptiste Tavernier, Baron d'Aubonne. At the beginning of the nineteenth century it was bought by a Mr. Hope a banker, and it is said that all his heirs who by turn owned the blue diamond met with tragic ends. It remained in the Hope family until the demands of Lord Francis Hope made its sale necessary. Lord Francis sold the stone to an American named Frankel, who bought the illluck with it for the financial crisis of the last year compelled him to sell it, and it passed into the possession of the now deposed Abdul Hamid, exSultan of Turkey. T7f7ANTgb—' Visitors to Te Kuiti to ' T call" at the Arcadia Dining
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King Country Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 250, 13 April 1910, Page 4
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150Page 4 Advertisements Column 5 King Country Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 250, 13 April 1910, Page 4
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