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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 105, 11 January 1912, Page 7

~ The .Earl of Plymouth, it is officially announced,' has : purchased! the Crystal Palace with its grounds, and'fwill hold the property untiL such time as the public hayc subscribed < sufficient, money for it .tp;' be bought frohi; hjjrr or»"'behalf )ot the nation,, English paper). The price which Lord' Plymouth will pay ;on completion will be. £210,000. ; , Thejmbjicspirited action, ojf Lord, Plymouth has saved the Palace for the nation,'and has prevented the first .exhibition; building from falling into the housebreaker's hands, and ,the grQunda,from, being cut up for building,piirpbses- .'The te.nns of purchase are understood, .tp be., the Earl of. Plyrnputh,_.under, .a contract entefe'd into witn the first debentui;e,hol'd«rs_, hjs paid..the sum of into the bank, and that,, he w actually complete trie purchase before October ■ 31st, 11912,, ■■, '.

Perhaps % Lloyd George's next amitation pf'German precedent will be a bachelor, t ax Writes .the. ;kondon. correspondent of the Melbourne Argus)., The Principality of Heuss has just imposed one on bachelors ,and spinsters. Hesse taxed bachelors some year,s ago, and Austria is thinking of including, childless widows and couples,with/bachelors and,spinsters. But. it, recalled that we'haVe precedents at Home., Two centuries ago Parliament, besides taxing a. duke'B interment £SO, a down to £l for the commoner, who had land of £1 annual value, and likewise births and marriages, imposed "a duiy upon Unmarried men above the age- pt five and twenty years, except such s,s receive alms."

An extraordinarily impudent case of theft was reported to the Ponsonby police by Mrs Paltridge, of Douglas street, Ponsonby (Auckland). Mrs Paltridge, it appears, had returned from a picnic at about 7.30 o'clock, and immediately on entering the house was summoned by! a knock at the front door. She had not removed jut wraps, and wa* carrying 'in her hand a purse containing £5 10s. W li'ii Mrs Paltridge opened the door, a young man, standing on the mat, snatched her puree, and bolted past her into the house and out at the back door. Here the thief was met by the lady's livyearoM son, and in answer to the lad'&'ejaiulation of surprise, the intruder coolly remarked that Mrs Paltridge hafd stolen his; money, and that he, was running to summon a policeman. Mrs Palltfidge soon acquainted the lad with the true state of affairs and he raced after the man along Douglas street and down Fitzroy street, but the thief disappeared round a certfer. The police have not been able to.trace the rascal, who is described us a young, active man, wearing a light suit and a soft hat.