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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume VIII, Issue 813, 30 August 1879, Page 2

The: Curtain is. • ciistoinary at times in Scotland to marry a. great many couples at one.-.time, “Butl’m married to the wrong .man,” once shouted a blooming bpide (to :the minister. “ You’re all married,” said he ; ‘.‘ go into .the vestry and assort yourselves theVe.”' They did—when the light .w’Otlput/’. ‘-'V The following is a paragraph from the Nevv Zealand IptteT.bf the:lnsurance and Banking Record for July“ On the soundest authority rain in'A position to say that vety-darge sums of capital' for New Zealand are: on the thfe 16an companies, and are, of course, anxiously looked for. One company gets £B4jooo by the July mail, and another £70,000. Most of this is engaged “to arrive,” and all the ingenuity of borrowers is exerted to make sure of money still on.th,e way, and to, arrive in August. Any couragepusindividual on yonr side, who would bring some money for investment with him, might easily get 10 per cent, dh firstrate freehold security, for the next seven years.”