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Greymouth Evening Star, 8 October 1908, Page 3

Residents of England have £110,000,000 invested in mortgages in foreign countries. These investments annually drain the foreign countries of about £5,500,000 in gold cash. It seems as if the lady bowler is going to materialise in Eltham this season. Last year she was a suggestion, a phantasma, occasionally seen on the green when the rain kept mere man away. This year she will have definition and status, the club having resolved to admit ladies at a membership fee of 15s. Several ladies are said .-to have expressed their intention of joining. In order to aid Japanese manufacturers the Japanese Government has ordered its diplomatic and consular officers abroad to forward to the department of agriculture and commerce for its museum at Tokio j samples of articles which are competing, or are likely to compete, with Japanese productions, or samples or articles which Japan might possibly be able to produce. The overcrowded condition of the English stage, and the distress prevailing among the rank and file of the profession, were demonstrated in a pathetic manner recently, when several hundreds of actresses of all ages attended outside a theatrical agent’s office in Waterloo road in reply to an advertisement for an actress to fill a role in a tourine company. Altogether 800 applications were received.

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