Rochester, New York, has an electric light plant which supplies 1100 arc and 1025 incandescent lamps. The plant is said to be the largest in the world run by water power. At a Bale at Christie’s a special Queen Anne farthing fetched £l3 ; a Queen Elizabeth shilling, £2l ; a Cromwellian crownpiece, £25 ; a quarter sovereign of Victoria, £l6 ; and an Anglo-Saxon penny, £3B. The following intimations are from Lloyd's Weekly of July 15 :—William Choat went to New Zealand in 1865, and was last heard of at Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand. His mother seeks tidings. Mrs Jane Evans went to Sandhurst, Victoria, Australis, in 1861. She afterward went to Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand, in or about September, 1862, but she has not since been heard of. Her brother John and sister Lizzie would be grateful for any information. Llewellyn Griffith ia sought for by his mother, who last heard from him at the Caledonian Hotel, Hastings, Hawkes Bay, New Zealand, in 1884.
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 866, 5 October 1888, Page 20
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