Mr Duffy, the Premier of Victoria, has publicly stated that the Melbourne mint will be able to purchase gold at a shilling an ounce over the price paid at present. Through this advance, Mr Duffy calculates the miners will gain between £BO,OOO and £90,000 a year, without the Government losing one penny.
Professor Person having once exasperated a disputant by the dryness of his sarcasm, the petulant opponent thus addressed him: —" Mr Porson, I beg leave to tell you, sir, that my opirfion of you is perfectly contemptible." Porson replied, " I never knew an opinion of yours, sir, which was not contemptible." An unreasonable and somewhat misanthropic acquaintance remarks he has often heard the proverb, " A friend in need is a friend indeed," but says he cant see where the laugh comes in, He has a friend in need who is always borrowing money from him.
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Westport Times, Volume VI, Issue 969, 10 May 1872, Page 3
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146Untitled Westport Times, Volume VI, Issue 969, 10 May 1872, Page 3
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