SALES BY AUCTION.
To-MORBOW. John R. Mabin, at his Rooms, Bridge-street.— Tobacco, Furniture, Groceries, Potatoes, &c. Noon. _._ . . John R. Mabin, at his Rooms, Bridge-street— Beef and Mutton. 12.15 p.m. Wm. Stavert & Co., at their Sale Yards, Richmond—2o head Fat Bullocks and Heifers, ex Taranaki. 2 p.m.
A ■ ———Mil " According to a Home paper, "in London, every eight minutes, night and day, somebody dies, and every five minutes a child is born. This great city contains as many people as the whole of Scotland, twice as many as Denmark, three times as many as Greece. In its vast population of nearly 4,000,000, it has 140,000 habitual gin-drinkerß, 100,000 abandoned •women, 10,000 professional gamblers, 50 000 criminals known to the police as theives and receivers of stolen goods, 500,000 habitual frequenters of publichouses, and 60,000 street Arabs. . To keep this vast multitude of disorderly characters in something like obedience to the law, 6,000 policemen are necessary. Of the population of the city, only about 500^000 intend public worship, there being amilhon ©tf idolt* absentees from church-every Sunday. |
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VI, Issue 212, 7 September 1871, Page 2
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175SALES BY AUCTION. Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VI, Issue 212, 7 September 1871, Page 2
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