Babon db Eibsch.—The Thames A&vertiaer is responsible for the following:— j Baron De Hirsob, who lately offered the Duchess of Montrose for her racing and a year or two back gave a princely sum to the Bussian Jews for educational purposes, is the same De Hirach who will be remembered by old Thameaites as running a small calico store in Shortland at the opening of the field, where he used to serve orer the counter small parcels of groceries to the enterprising prospector, that was in the days when Grahamstown was a raupo swamp and Shortland a Maori pa. He afterwards bought into the Golden Crown and then tried to melt quartz in a furnace, but the quartz and fluxes got somehow all fused tip together, and the idea we* abandoned. The old furnace chimney waa standing until lately just opposite the Caledonian battery on toe fiat*, t
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Press, Volume XLVI, Issue 7392, 19 August 1889, Page 5
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