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No less than 39 coffee estates in Coorg are shortly to be put up for sale by auction for non-payment of Government revenue. A reward of 1,000 rupees has been offered by the Madras Government for the discovery of a seam of good coal in the Kristna district. Cholera has appeared amongst the 104 th Keginient at Allahabad. For the first ten months of the present financial year the revenue, as compared with that of last year, showed an increase of £1,105,480, and the expenditure a decrease of £2,114,539. Mr G. W. Grant is Baid to have invented a method of cooling railway carriages in the hot weather. Tho export of cotton by rail from the Central Provinces and tho Berars has this season amounted to 112,681 bales.
Perhaps there never was a greater epicure in private life than one Mr. Uolgtone. of London, who in ten years litcra'ly ate up a fortune of one hundred and fifty thousand pounds sterling. He not only traversed all Europe himself for the sole purpose of gratifying his appetite, but he had agents in China Mexico, and Canada to supply him with the rarest delicacies. A single dish sometimes cost him fifty pounds sterling. Finally his fortune was reduced to a single guinea. With this he bought a woodcock, which he had served up in the highest culinary art. After resting two hours he jumped into the Thames from Westminster Bridge.
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Westport Times, Volume V, Issue 829, 24 June 1871, Page 3
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240INDIAN ITEMS. Westport Times, Volume V, Issue 829, 24 June 1871, Page 3
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