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Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 54, 23 June 1876, Page 2

The "Wairarapa Standard" of Bth June sa y S : —"lf there is anyone in the district .who ' cannot work, and to beg is ashamed,' we . recommend him to coiiibine profit with amusement by going 'rabbit shooting.' On Tuesday last, two visitors to the district succeeded "in bagging forty-seven head in four hours on" the Taratahi. The vermin are becoming pretty numerous." Mr. A. T. Stewart, who is described as the richest merchant in America, died recently at New.York. His real estate in that city was nearly equal to Mr. Ast'or's. His total property'is estimated at ovSr 80,000,C'00dols. Mr. Stewart was an Irishman" "by birth, and has left-by will everything to his wife, except 1,000,000d015. to his business and legal adviser, Mr. Hilton, the ex-judge, and small bequests to various friends and persons who have been in his service. • He has left a letter addressed to his wife, sayingthat he intended to provide for various publSa, charities, but if he should die befor edoiap%e, he requests her to consult Mr. TT-ilfen fo carry out his plans.- •Mr.;-Hilton; is'> : %6tmanage and settle the .the^bnsiiiess; Sir-and Co., have erected;th;e in the world at the E&vpidk "Works. " They will be wrought with hydraulic machinery, and able to lift 100 tons. | r - . j