Swallow and Ariell, of Melbourne, bls= cuit manufacturers, have generously given ten tons best biscuits for the l{w South Wales contingent to the Soudan. Orders expected from the Mahdi.. -'-ik. A vessel bound for Leith ran agrotWl a short time agq; and it became necessary to throw the 3200 live sheep, which fowled the cargo, overboard. Qf this number,' 2500 swam safely ashore, a distance of three miles. Drinking habits increase so much in Germany that in many places 'there is a i! liquor-shop to. every : thirty-one. inhabitants. In Hamburg the proportion reach-' us one to seventy one, and in Berlin one to every 10 persons, ■■,'■■ There are over 17,000 public one-horse carriages in Paris, and the price for a single rido is thirty-five cents; by the hour, forty five cents. - ■ ■ . A grand cathedral has been .builtin' Moscow to commemorate the retreat of Napoleon from Russia. The edifice will accommodate 10,000 worshipp'ers, and has cost over £2,200.000. v v
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 1945, 21 March 1885, Page 2
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159Page 2 Advertisements Column 5 Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 1945, 21 March 1885, Page 2
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