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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1351, 4 September 1883, Page 2

The cost of the coronation of the Czar will reach £2,000,000. According to the Postmaster-General the New South Wales post-office is worked at a loss of £73,000 per year. The Government gave to the widow of Adams, who was murdered in Nelson Gaol, a sum of £260, equal to two years’ pay, and paid all funeral expenses, The following novel announcement appears in a country journal:—“ At Wangarei on the 19th inst., for the third and last time the wife of Mr John Low, of a daughter.” The Napier“ Herald ”of August 2 says It was commonly reported in town yesterday that the Hon. J. N. Wilson had married in Wellington, Mrs Rhodes, widow of the lute Mr B. Rhodes. “Hamlet” was produced recently in an up-country town, where an amateur “props” new to the business was asked by the second actor for a phial, to be used in the play scene. After a long absence, “props.” returned with a file about three feet long, and exclaimed, “ If you please, sir, this is the only one I can get.” It was not used. Wells “ Rough on Corns.” Ask for Wells’ “Rough on Corns.” 7jd. Quick relief, complete permanet cure. Corns, warts, bunions. Moses, Moss & Co., Sydney, General Agents. I