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Patea Mail, 28 April 1882, Page 4

There was great guessing at Denver on the number of beans in a jar, the prize being a twenty-five-dollar overcoat. The exact count proved to be 36,477. The winner guessed 36,491. The next to him came a guess of 39,420. The guesses ranged all the way from 1,500 to 600,000. An aged negro was one daj 7 showing the scars of the wounds inflicted by the lash when he was a slave. What a picture ?” exclaimed a sympathising looker-on. “ Yes,” responded the coloured brother, “ dat’s de work ob one ob de old masters.”

£9OO Tannery. NEW PLYMOUTH. Greatest bargain between Wanganui and Auckland a Tannery, also Wool-washing Grounds and Appliances, Soap Boiling and Candle Factory, with Portable Engine, £7OO worth of Buildings, a large Dam and never-failing stream of water, 15 acres of Freehold Land within 30 chains of Town, and all for £9OO. For a steady and practical man this must be a certain fortune. Terms easy. WM. COURTNEY. Earth Hunger ! Earth Hunger ! To Persons Troubled with this Disease. THE undersigned, can prescribe doses of from to 2000 acres, either at a dose of open land in its raw state or cultivated, and the same applies to bush land. I can suit any patient, either at New Plymouth, Inglewood, Stratford, Manaia, Opnnaki, Cape Egmont, Rahotu, Okato, Oakura,Omata, or near Harbor site. Now is the time, before there is much contagion. WM. COURTNEY, Land Agent, New Plymouth and Opunaki.