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A man named Bulan, of the reputed age of one hundred and six years, committed suicide at Ekaterinosalv, Russia, because, as he explained in a letter he left behind, he had began to find life insipid and uninteresting. Pupils at an English technical school row cd across the Channel from Folkestone to Boulogne recently in an ordinary 4-oared galley, covering the distance in fi\ e and a-half hours and beating ths lecord. As an indication of thrift amongst the working classes m France, it is stated tli.it there are now 0,000,000 depositors m the French saving bankj with an ' accumulated fund of not lest) than L112,000,OQ0.
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North Otago Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 7487, 8 October 1892, Page 4
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107ITEMS. North Otago Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 7487, 8 October 1892, Page 4
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