Page 3 Advertisements Column 1

Kumara Times, Issue 275, 22 August 1877, Page 3

Mr Albert; Grant’s collection of pictures was sold by auction in London on April 27 and 28. The interest taken in the sale was immense, and the crush was consequently great, the bidding was inactive, and the loss by the sale must have been very heavy. The highest price was £5650 for Landseer’s ** Otter Hunt,” for which the auctioneer said he believed Mr Grant paid 10,000 .guineas. The total sum realised was £106,262. The Timaru Herald gives the following laughable instance of the inconsistency of the present Kail way tariff:— A firm carrying on business in a rising township in South Canterbury sent a customer, a small quantity of oats for seed purposes, by rail, and in due course demand was made on them for payment of the carriage, which amounted to 16s. Now these oats were put into the railway truck by the firm themselves, and not by the servant of the railway, and therefore under the new regulations, they were entitled to a .remission. Here comes the joke. The account for carriage, 16s and the Recount of the remission were handed in together, but the latter amounted to 18s sd, so that the Government actually paid the firm the sum of 2s sd, for the privilege of carrying their oats on the railway, A correspondent to the New York Tribune says:—An egg was laid by a brown Leghorn pullet, not ten months old,.with three yolks, weighing ozs., measuring around 6| in., 8| in, lengthwise. The same day another hen laid «a egg weighing ozs.