Notes and Events
The good people of Taranaki erected a house on Mount Egmont, but their plan of charging for the use of it appears very extortionate. Some visitors went up the mountain early thisr month, a lady and gentleman and two children. One child slept with the lady, and one with the gentleman, but they were charged for separately, making a sum of eight shillings for a night's use of two bunks 1
A colonist who trusts before long to be in receipt of a pension for the Crimean War has been informed that the numbers of those who took part in that war are fast dwindling away, as out of 75,000 men who returned to England there are now only some 5000 alive.
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Manawatu Herald, 18 February 1893, Page 3
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125Notes and Events Manawatu Herald, 18 February 1893, Page 3
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