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Evening Star, Issue 6771, 28 November 1885, Page 1 (Supplement)

The deepest sea soundings known were made in the Pacific, where the line reached down 4,575 fathoms, and off the east coast of Japan 4,600 fathoms. The Royal English Commission on the Housing of the Poor says that, with all the poverty and overcrowding, the standard of morality is high. There are 1,600 kinds of pears, 1,500 sorts of apples, 150 plums, more than 150 varieties of gooseberries, and about l‘2o of strawberries. A gentleman resident in Auckland, and well-known in connection with insurance agencies, is stated to have come into a windfall through his wife to the amount of LUO,OOO. The property (says the ( Star’) has been lying for many years in Chancery, from which place repeated attempts have been made to dislodge it, but unsuccessfully, until the present time. Now, however, a leading firm of lawyers have notified the fortunate man that the property can be secured, and offering to work the for the small fee of L 5.000. Being a little versed in this world’s wicked ways the gentleman replied by letter, offering LSOO to the enterprising legal gentlemen. As an earnest that the affair is no mere the gentleman has beeu enabled to anticipate possession to the amount of LSOO, ~