MISCELLANEOUS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXV, Issue LXV, 16 June 1913, Page 8

MISCELLANEOUS.

-.'••-', LONDON, June IoY W. Howie, a hunting matt of independent means, won the £50,000 Cal•cutta sweepstake. Romhey's full-length painting _of Anne, Lady Delaupoli, has been sold at Christies' for £41,370. During the day £120,000 worth of pictures were fjjpld. constituting a record. .Lady Scott met the Terra Nova at Etebrdiff. , ' The Armstrong-Whitworth Company fevei obtained seventy acres near MonSreai, and are erecting steel works at ft cost of £200,000. ultimately employing 2000 men. They will begin in May next. '