Merinos are the leading commercial topic. There’s enough ugliness in the wrinkled old rams to make seven devils, but, the auctioneers say, enough money to make 70 fortunes. Baron de Lesseps is arranging for purchase of the Panama railway. Ho expresses himself as certain that the canal will be completed by the date originally named, The Bishop of Winchester says that even abstention from smoking has been obtained through the efforts of the Salvation Army. That gives thorn an excuse for o good deal of folly, The London Timm says two-thirds of the crime of the country may bo traced to the abuse of drink, and yet, monstrous as is the evil of the publichouse system, it is a leas evil by far than would follow from a consistent attempt to put it down.
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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1113, 3 August 1882, Page 2
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134Untitled Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1113, 3 August 1882, Page 2
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