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Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 69, 11 July 1876, Page 2

John Mackey, the richest millionaire of California, worked till about ten years ago as a common miner, at the rate of two dollars a day. At the present lie draws the largest income of any man in the •world, and if it continues at the present - rat.?, he will, in a few years, be richjsf'than the richest of the Rothschild's. .-Ere is the principal partner in the firm of JEpod and •O'Brien, Mining Agents and Syjfflebrokers, in San Francisco, which broK|¥the Bank of California a short while apy His revenue from this firm, tojMpr with the dividends on mining si 1 aJSfflprivately held by him, amounts to a toifßpf 8831,000 per month, nearly §10,000,w) per year, or upwards of £2,OQO,OQB^_ IgFordham, who has won a Derby, was to ride All Heart celebrated jockey only waits to pull off the blue riband of the turf to retire from 11 ■ The following extracts'- illussrate the vicissitudes of colonial life :—"A Ballarat gentleman, writing from Avenel, to a friend here, says that at one of the hotels there, the cook, once a Ballarat man, is a brother of Jenny Lind, the Svveedish Nightingale ; that the boots at the hotel was one a Ballarat man, worth £50,000 ; ai#f" that another once well-to-do inhabitant. o£' this city was there, " onjfche not by any means well off how." Queen "Victoria, a Berlin newspaper re-, ports, will visit the Continent again next! autumn. skin altogether.