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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1163, 30 September 1882, Page 2

Good ostriches, says an American paper, are worth from £2OO to £3OO each. Each female bird lays about 25 eggs a season, and produces £3O worth of feathers. The nineteenth call of 2d per share in the Southern Cross Petroleum Company is announced as being on Wednesday, the 11 th ultimo. A Strange Incident.—A young man called ftt a Plymouth newspaper office one evening, find asked ir the namen of the killed nt Alexandria had arrived, giving as a reason that during the afternoon the mother and wife of a petty officer named Bevington, serving in Alexandria, had what they regarded as“ a token of his death.” They were sitting together in their house, when they heard, or thought they heard, the voice of theabsentson and husband say “Mother’’threetimas. On Wednesday a relative of Mr Revington received a telegram from the Admiralty to the effect that he was shot in the streets whilst serving on police duty.