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Waikato Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 3055, 13 February 1892, Page 1 (Supplement)

The cemeteries of London cover 2,000 acres.

What is the legal expression for a loveletter ?—A writ of attachment.

A retail fruiterer in Melbourne, writes a correspondent, afraid a holiday mi?ht be nrncliimed submitted his returns to ine a day or two ago. He has a little shop about ten feet by twelve for which he pavs £16 a waek. Here hy dint of early and late attendance and continual work, he is there from 7 a.m. until midnight, he contrives with infinite pains and toil to take tun pounds a day fine day with another. The place is no small that alino-t every sale necessitates the replacing and resorting of the stock. The fruit sold for £G0 c>sts about £25, rent £10, losses by depreciation about ten per cent or £6, electric lights 23a, cartage 30s, wages of boy 10s, of woman for cleaning 10-", bags and sundries £1. Total £52. He would have a profit of £8 per week if these were all, and would earn it but unhappily those are not at all his 'jutjjoings. It seems incredible but the poor wretch loses from £2 to £3 wnelsly by bad debts chiefly those of the smart clerks and well dressed women. They Cfo hi for fruit lunches and talk loudly about the healthiness and economy of the practice and they take care of the economy by swindling the fruiterer. It is quite plain that a tradesman whose profit* do not exceed £G per week cannot afford to shut up a shop whose expenses are not truck under L's per day.