“ What did you get 1” she asked, as he returned from a two days’ hunt. “ Got back !” was the cool reply. I O U’s to the amount of £2,500.000 were recently sold for £250. They had been handed over the gambling tables at Hamburg, and were regarded as worthless. The present owner, however, threatens to publish names unless they are paid. An Alexandria correspondent telegraphs to a London paper that Colonel Knox and Mr Baird have renuned from a shooting expedition in the Soudan, all well. They killed 11 elephants, 10 rhinoceroses, 9 lions, 16 buffaloes, 2 giraffes, 6 leopards, 1 ostrich, 2 immense crocodiles, and a large number of antelopes and smaller game. The tenor and soprano in a choir were married recently. They probably met by chants, the usual wav, and then agr“«d to duct. Well, that’s all right and niMivai. md the first addition to their family wi;l make a trio.
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Kumara Times, Issue 279, 27 August 1877, Page 2
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