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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXIII, Issue 207, 19 September 1889, Page 4

A London correspondent writes :— The Italian opera season closes this week, and j Mme. Melba has every reason to congratulate herself on the magnificent success which she has achieved. This success is the more surprising, because the Australian prima donna has been suffering from a growth in her throat, which has caused her considerable alarm, and induced her to seek T the best advice. But she has struggled on, * and now intends, on the completion oi! her engagement in London, to take a prolonged rest, in the hope that the alarming symptoms - may disappear, and she may be enabled to 8 fulfil her Continental engagements. % American mail news states that at 81 Franklin a wealthy old merchant has burned 30,000 dollars in greenbacks and Government ° bonds to preveno his wife and son getting t( them. The "wife is bringing a divorce against '•* him, and his eon has given him. great trouble. ai To revenge, him self upon them, he crawled out of bed in a feeble condition and destroyed the money. Aooording to Mr. W. H. Smith, the leader E 01 the Houbb of Commons, the taxation of the CTJf is at present at the rate of c Al i9f Sdper head, and tr»e expenditure ia £l J? 17b mv head; .. The taxation of .New Zealand P '