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Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 161, 13 June 1883, Page 2

It is estimated en.it cuerer are 200,000 vagabonds and beggara m the German, Empire, including thieves,, pick-pockets, and other swindlers, and tha authorities s est mats the annual loss to honest people by their operationsat the enormous sum of $26,q0 i.ooo. „ : : ....•■ A correspondent, writing to the Mela bourne Argus on the question of malting m bond, makes the statement that "barley is grown m California, iSTew Zealand, &;., sent on to England (16,000 miles away), and from thence supplied to the very markets we have within tsvo or three day's sail from us, and l where the consumers have shonrn themselves unxiou3 to trade with as." In a private letter received from Lon», don, the writer refers to the frozen meat" as follows:—" At a big '-I butehetfs ; shop just across London Bridge I saw posted m gigantic letters ' New Zealand Mutton.' Tue sheep looked perfectly natural, and we bought a fore«quarter and some chops at B£d per lb , which would have cost la 2d for English meat. It was impossiblo to_.distiaguisu it. from, fresh meat,'*