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Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2861, 16 April 1878, Page 3

Stoet of a Picotbe.—A correspondent writes to the editor of the Times as follows :—" In your account of the ' Old Masters' at the Academy, in the Times of the 10th inst., mention is made of a Peiter de Hooghe, • Girl Feeding Chickens,' in the possession of Baron Rothschild. Pictures sometimes under* go strange vicissitudes. This one, now a dweller in the gallery of the Baron, was discovered by the late Mr S. M. Mawson, at a public sale in a dingy place in the outskirts of Paris about the year 1842. The picture was in so neglected a state that it was being passed over without a bid, when Mr Mawson offered IOOf., and it was knocked down to him. It was cleaned, framed, and then excited general admiration. Baron Rothschild showed great fondness for it, and Mr Mawson parted with it for £800, although purposing to hold it at £1000. It is nqw the Peiter de Hooghe, " a thing cf beauty, and a joy lor ever.'"

Lost L O S T, mWO CHEQUES, one for £3 3i lid, X Bigned Price Bros, j one for £19s sd, by Mm Norbury. The finder will bo rewarded by leaving the flams afc the office of this paper. Payment of the above baa been etopped at the Bank. 2367 Meetings PROTESTANT ALLIANCE FRIENDLY SOCIETY OP AUSTKALASIA. PRINCE OP WALES LODGE, No. 20. THE regular Fortnightly MEETING of Ilie above Lodfto will be held TOMORROW (Wednesday) EVENING, 17th insfc., in the Lodge Room, Rollcston street, at 7.30 p.m. By order of the W.M. A. Baickb, Secretary, Comity .Council THAMES COUNTY. NOTICE is hereby given that the Electoral Bolls for the Thames County BHings are Lodged at the undermentioned places, | and wilt there remain for Public Inspection until the 15th day of May next ensuing, us provided by Seotion 46 of "The Counties I Act, 1876":— 1. Parawai: School House. ; 2. Kauaeranga: Kauaerauga Girls' School House. - ' 3. Waiotahi: Waiotalii Creek School House 4. Hastings: The School Houie. 6. Obinexnuri; The Police Station, A.(f. E, W. Horn.is, County Cierk. Thamcß, April 15th, 1878. 237S