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Waikato Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 2517, 28 August 1888, Page 2

Mr J. Knox's usual sale will be held flk Saturday. """ * Mr J. McXicol's clewing sale at Mr * Sharp's nursery will be held to-morrow. Mr J. S. Buckland will sell at the Hamilton Yards on Thursday, and at Waitoa on Friday. Tenders are invited for the purchase of the Te Awainutu Cheese and Bacon Factory and plant. Mr J. McNicol will sell a number and variety-of stock at Hamilton on Thursday, and sundry produce and farm implements at Cambridge on Saturday. Tub Government of Servia imposes an import tax on bustles. Tiiehk are nearly three hundred thousand Chinamen in the United States. . Thk Inspector of butcheries in. Paris reports that the consumption of horse flesh has increased to an extraordinary extent. In Japan every unmarried woman wears a scarlet skirt. This she discards and stains her teeth black when she marries. . An orange tree in the pardens of Versailles is four hundred and fifty years old. It was planted by Eleanor, of Castile, in This State collected about 800.000 dollars last year in Philadelphia from licenses, on the basis of 50 dollars for the lowest grade. ;