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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 24, 23 October 1907, Page 10

For >\ years past the accounts of the naval port; or Ton on refused to ■. -balance:: '- The™ was ]s. 2Jd. too much in the cash books and ever since 1873 this l s . 2jd. has. puzzled Tic olficml accountants,' ■:. Some, time ago orders were sont from Pans that this slate of must cease. Seven special accountants were set to work and after seven months' hard iaboiir faordian knot has been untied. Admiral Gallibct-a former Minister for Mamie, who was 31 years ago one of the officers of lonlon Arsenal, but. who for many years has been -living in Paris'on: his pension -has just received official notice asking him to .call at tho Ministry of Finance and draw the sum of ls. 2}d He was underpaid by this amount when he left Toulon'in 1873. ■-■• ' Like all great men Grieg has little regard er esteem for tho orders that Sovereigns desired to confer on •- him. " Much better for me that they should buy my music-than "ive Die little gilt souvenirs," is one of his naive remarks to a friend to whom he was showing bib decoration.