MISCELLANEOUS WIRES.
I [PftKSS A^OCMTIOHi— CoPSBIOBTj ' LONDON, Friday. ■' The baokeTs of Towns and Baxr r \ have each deposited £100. Thj r*e? I has been fixed to take place on Ottober 12lh. ' Sir Kobert .Jart. ex-Gommisi'.nii-ji* for Customs in China, has reached London after an absence of S*' years. PAEIS, Fiflday. * Melba received an extraordinary reception in "Eigoletto." ."President Fallieres was present. The receipts amounted to 130 000 frants, for the benefits of the Authors' Society. As much as £12 was paid for a single seat. FEILDING, Friday. Mr Ernest Short, the well-known Bomney sheep breeder, decided to-day to present his flock of eighty stud Shropshire Down sheep to the Government for the Waverley experimental farm. Thiß gift is worth nearly ' one thousand pounds.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 13 June 1908, Page 4
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123MISCELLANEOUS WIRES. Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 13 June 1908, Page 4
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