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Waikato Times, Volume XXX, Issue 2460, 17 April 1888, Page 2

Thk Empress Eugenie has expended £100,000 on the mausoleum at IVnborough. Thk amount of chocolate annually consumed is 80,000,0001b; the market list being headed by France, Iγ is said that an Amati violin, which originally belonged to Louis Xl\ r ., has recently bnen sold in Bcida Pesth for £700. Thk Duchess c,f Hamilton has opened a shop in Ipswich (Eug.) for the sale of butter, which is crowded with orders at Is 7d per lb. Pktkk Lain'G, the (Scotland) centenarian, was entertained in celebration of his 10 J ,th birthday, recently. Peter sang several songs. Dit. UuTHKßcqnn, of Newcastle-on-Tyne, said : Modern science has made it perfectly clear that sipping cold water slowly is the bß*t cure for the drink craving. Evkky intiiiit born in Rome on Year's Day and christened Leo or'Leonie is to receive from the Jubilee Committee a savings bank book with IOOf. deposited. No fewer than 300 female physicians are practising in Now York and Brooklyn ; and many of them are making incomes which are cpiite. equal to the earnings of their male competitors. Vkhkumkd fans are nnw in fashion in Pans. The framework is made of rose, lemon, or sandal wnod, which, on wanned by the air-of a room, gives out an agreeable fragrance. v John L. Sullivan, in declining to visit a church fair in Dublin, probably based his refusal on his unwillingness to make a holy show of himself. Election to (ill two vacancies Kirikiriroa Road Board on May 4th. Annual meeting Tamahavo ratepayers, and election to fill two vacancies in the Road Board on Slay 7th, We diroot attention to tho advertisement of Mr \\\ J. Duwden, the well-known Auckland auctioneer, Tho Pinko County Council notify the striking of a special rate. Mr Harris, t'.io host of ths Huntly Hotel, informs the travelling public that luncli cin bo obtained at hi* rooms on arrival of tr.-iin.'i. Ity-.ii have a watch that should fceo t> good time, but doea then why sulfer anii'iviincn, when by giving it to S. McLwi'iioii, practical watchmaker, Hamilton, you can have, for a reasonable charge, the defect remedied This lie guarantees overy time { (Adyt,