SHE WOULD MAKE NO DISCOUNT.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1353, 8 September 1883, Page 4

SHE WOULD MAKE NO DISCOUNT.

A few weeks since a railway collision on one of the roads leading out of New York killed, among others, a passenger living in an interior town. His remains were sent home in good shape, and a few days after the funeral the attorney of the road called upon the widow to effect a settlement. She placed her figures at 20,000d01. “Oh that sum is unreasonable, replied the attorney. “Your husband was nearly fifty years old.” “ Yes, sir.” “ And lame! ” “Yes." “And his general health was poor. “ Quite poor.” “ And he probably would not have lived fifty years.” _ ' “ Probably not, sir.” “ Then it seems to me that two or three thousand dollars would be a fair compensation. “ Two or three thousand ! ” she echoed. "Why, sir, I courted that man for ten years, ran after him for ten more, and then had to chase him down with a shotgun to get him before a preacher! Do you suppose that I’m going to settle for the bare cost of shoe leather and ammunition I ”

Scotch coal-owners have granted their men an advance of sixpence a day. An English paper says “the consumers will have to pay it.” The 176,000 shares in the Suez Canal Com pany, bought for England by Lord Beaconsheld for a little over £4,000,000, are now worth double that sum. The transaction was denounced at the time as * * simply throwing four millions into tbe sea.” Queen Victoria’s crown is made up of diamonds, rubies, sapphires and emeralds* set in a silver and gold body. It weighs 39 ounces 6 pennyweights troy. In it there are 3,452 diamonds, 273 pearls, 9 rubies, 17 sapphires and 11 emeralds. The Indian * Civil and Military Gazette ’ publishes important news, showing that the recent successes of the Ameer over the Shinwaris must have been far less complete than was at first reported, Not only has the struggle been renewed, but for the last three days fighting has gone on uninterruptedly. At Peshawur the sound of heavy and continues firing far up the Khyber Pass in the direction of Lalpoora, has been distinctly heard. The result of the conflict is uncertain, but men of the Afreedee tribes in the Pass bring down reports to the effect that the losses are very heavy on both sides. Raft loads of dead bodies have been brought down the Cabul river. The Mount Ida Chronicle takes Mr De Lautour to task for the position he took up with regard to the North and South Islands when debating Mr Bryce’s Land Bill. It says " Mr DeLautour has, in the past, done so much for Mount Ida that his name will always we hope, be mentioned with respect, but it takes a little time to accustom ourselves to tne spectacle of our member fighting for the North Island as against the South. The North has for years been fattening upon u»—draining us for the settlement of their country, living upon our land fund and profiting by our railways- It is quite possible that the North, in some mysterious way, may be very ill used by us, but we hardly like to be told so by the member for Mount Ida. That Mr DeLautour should now feel primarily interested in the North is natural enough, but we do think that such expressions of opinion, as we have quoted, had better have been reserved until, in the fulness of time, he had severed his connection with the district. ”