SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.
ARRIVED. Dec. 19, schooner Return, 90, Warren-, from Wellington. SAILED. None. IK PORT. Brig Torrington, 200, Higgles. Schooner Return, 9<>, Warren.
■ • • - Can it be Trub ? — Aa old gentleman who ba s dabbled all his life in statistics, says be never heard of more than one woman who insured her life. He accounts for this by the singular fact of one of the questions on every insurance paper being "What is your age?" Panic and Populatoh.— The Berlin correspondent of the Medical Tbnet gives a curious fact* j ' The population of Berlin from 1843 to 1847, kept steadly increasing by 14,000 to 17,000 souls annually ; it has, in the troubled year 1848 decreased by 3,000." T» Sake Fix.— '•A domestic newly engaged, presented to his master one morning a pair of boot*, the leg of one of which was much longer than the other. " How comes it, Patrick, that these boota are not of the same length i" " I raly don't know, sir; but what bothers me the most is, that the pair down atain are ia the same fix."
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Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 407, 22 December 1849, Page 167
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181SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 407, 22 December 1849, Page 167
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