A sew musical gong is c:mstructed of an octavo of gun-raotal pipes of graduated lengths arranged in a wooden frame. A hammer is slung at the side with which to summon the hungry to feed, with an appropriate air. “ The roast beef of old England.” Billy Emerson', the negro minstrel, is ono of the richest men on the stage, according to the Philadelphia Times, which says that ho has a property in San Francisco which is assessed for over 100,000 dollars, and Mrs Emerson has property worth over half a million. The fastest steamer afloat is the Queen Victoria, built at Fairfield. It has attained the average speed ot 25.02 miles an hour, A I’KETTV story is told about “Mrs Bonanza” Mackay and a poor California girl who went to Paris to study art. The girl was dying and had no money to got home, when Mrs Mackay called on her, bought alt her poor litt’e work for lOOdcls., and made the cheque lOOOdols,
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Waikato Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 2361, 27 August 1887, Page 2 (Supplement)
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164Page 2 Advertisements Column 1 Waikato Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 2361, 27 August 1887, Page 2 (Supplement)
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