Depression on the Continent.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1586, 19 December 1885, Page 4

Depression on the Continent.

Times* are depevately bad m Paris. Business never was so hull. Visitors may come, homeward hound mostly, hut their purchases few and far hetween. The Hotrs Drouot, the great public saleroom of Paris, is generally a good gauge of the state | of- the Parisian money market. Never was there so little doing there. Curiosities and articles of vertu are often put up without finding a bidder. Again, the windows of the rich jewel. , lers of the Rne de la Paix and Palais Royal are full as ever of precious stones, but people are seldom to he beguiled into buying even a bracelet or a brooch. Only the great dressmakers are kept hard at work. Lndies, however empty their puses, will have : new . clothes ; they still patronise the newest fashions ; they will have 'dresses of richest stuff but with skirts cut more and more planly ; they will wear the largest hass, ornamente with the great ostrich tfeather, once more the mode, bub ihey will not pay their bills. It is said that more money is owing and aocouns are of Janger standing m this particular line of business than at any previous time. Unloss matters improve universal bnnkriiptc is likely to supre— vene. — Home Nems.