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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLIII, Issue XLIII, 13 September 1909, Page 1

Vt tbe Asliburton skin sales on Monday a halfbred skin realised 12s 13 The sheop from which tho skin had been removed was recently purchased at the Ashburton yards foil's 6d. Maidstone Convict Prison is being prepared for the reception of the prison Printing Department, which has been established at Parkhurst Prison,. Isle of Wight, for many years, ihe eon viete working in this department are of the "star," or first offender* class. A shoemaker of Edmonton, Alberta, who 15 yeaTs ago purchased a plot of land 34ft b "? 150 ft in wha V 9 now a leading thoroughfare of the city for £75, has recently disposed of it to the Dominion Bank for £10,070. V diamond which has Teached a London firm of jewellers from BraziL fi.»<l is two and a-qunrter carats id weight and of brilliant lustre, hp.s a rich- . rimson colour between that of a ruby nud a jacinvh. It is an o:<3 family jewel, set in a split-shank ring, and is valued at £3000. Imports of Italian winos into tbe, United Kingdom for the first six months of this year amounted to 132,590 gallons, as compared with 109,188 .gallons for the corresponding period of 1908, thus showing an mcrcaso of 23,402 gallons. Miss Malbel Ford, a young school teacher, of Millbrook, Cornwall, was discovered in the workhouse at Exeter. She disappeared from home, and the comibinea search of military, police and boy scouts was fruitless. It was a caee of loss of memory. -