PORTUGAL.
Our native friends know little of the kingdom of Portugal. We may inform them that the chief export of the country is wine. In consequence of a long drought this season the vineyards have yielded but a small quantity of fruit. One estate which sent to market a thousand pipes of wine as its annual product, has been obliged to satisfy itself this year with only fifty How soon are the fountains of national resources dried up, when the Almighty in His unerring wisdom is pleased to withhold " the early and the latter rain."
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Maori Messenger : Te Karere Maori, Volume I, Issue 3, 1 March 1855, Page 50
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95PORTUGAL. Maori Messenger : Te Karere Maori, Volume I, Issue 3, 1 March 1855, Page 50
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