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CHEAP DINNER. : PAID 1/D: EOPND £O6 PEARL ' ' IN OYSTER. I " ADELAIDE, -Jan. 7. ;A pearl as 'big as.a. jwja >vas touud in i)ri ovsfpr by .a tnan di«»M>g in a Hindley-street' restaurant this afternoon. . p«iid ’ls 9d tor the. meal, which now is likely to bo worth upto £oo. * - !S. Morris, the proprietor, said that, lie bad boon oociiing oysters for 'lO years, and ' had > never seen *a ' pearl before. .. , • ,m • ?.V ' 1 >'■ PINK EYES. ■ . SYDNEY;; •Jun, 7. A>• /‘white ‘ ‘nigger”.:- -is r niupnii the crew, of the /French .Island steamer Wawatta, which, .arrived in Sydney latet ;nig{it,- from; Noumea, The man is a Melanesian, bom. ot full -bleed parents. -• With "ale milk ... ovos,, dev Aid; of, lashes, the nativee peers - shortsightedly over the side of the ship., but in the dark bods, inyliis. element, his sight*then becoming abnormal. ». Apart , from the characteristic Ventures and' i'uwvy bair. ..there is little to indicate - that life »-is ’ anything ■' but an unkempt Enelishihan, . s His : h{nr is a{niosb .red, and his .skin of that hue. which entitles its, owner to be uieknauied “blue” 0,1- .‘'ginger. ” . ' - \
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 11539, 16 January 1932, Page 3
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