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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 434, 9 August 1877, Page 3

The pleasant esperem-es of a specitlatqr in mining shares ;ifc -'eefton;svho is now on a visit to Chrisuhuich, are thus ; described ta the '•' -. est Coast Times:'—" It" is an old saying that luckrwilll follow .soine men ; . through life. It is so in qmrtz:minin_r, asiu all speculations p! -a •jai.n!)ling luiture. We have ; had a uotable instauce qf.this during the past.few mouths ia Holritiki. . ..A .gentleman. who r has been exceptionally fortunate in tyn scrip, j;esolved to ©''joy, a,p'ip-.to the Colony ;qf tea other.parchment documents in his safe; about a thousand shares hi the. Hopeful Company, and nenriy. double, that number ,in .the iVVHconie After, an .absence, of* two months he. returned Iti hud that his "Hopeful shaies bad imj>rqyed- hi vulue to :Tlie extent of 30s;. per share;, equal fpa profit of. £ISOO. ./In aditioh. to a dividend wasdeehired in miu the same yielding him;, s veral huudred uouuds more. itci-" solving upon qui'ting the order o£ Betiedk-ks, he disposi d;of a lew Hu'ii - fills,- aud started in; ■■ Hopeful joy ; f .spending his iioueyuioon. , While tii.uV engaged his We'eome shares •idvancid.' about 1 5s. each, g"yi :g another : profit* of about JJLSOO. This is a story without exiiggera'tdp, having 'happened -within, the .nasi twomonr'.'s. 7 -."', . The iSbeik JKI Islam rec nil■/ sent: D ictors of Lw to the iSc'ierif of Mecca, a direct d. seendant of the fr>phei, fur the.purpose of demanding fuods from the treasury of Islam, to be applied in defence of the Islamfaitb. Tjis t, easury is formed fom the annual offerings of pilgrims/ which are accumulated in the of Mecca. The Scherif of M-ecca receives an average of 15,000.000 f'rauca in annual offerings. One offering cjest, was opened during the nu*sqTurkish war of 1825. and several sums, were ..withdrawn, out it- was - againelosed. The secoiid .chest was opened iii.l Sod', during the Criinoan.,war,. but the third has not been opened since 1415. it is conjectured that the accumulation of money in the -last named, .offertory-; chest cannot.- be less than 250,000 000 Cranes, a'nd it is fully believed that the total amount of the treasury of Islam will considerably exceed 600,000.000 francs, and even a : much higher sum.