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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1094, 17 February 1893, Page 9

Here is a story of the late Jay Gould. The late Bill Travers, known as' the, Btftuimering wit of Wall-street,' was showing an English visitor tho sights of New York. Passing down Wall-street, he suddenly stopped his companion, and, pointing to a man standing on the Custom House'eteps, exclaimed 'Do you see that little man oyer there; the one wi-with. the bl'bbblack beard? Take a go»good look;, that's the gr-gr-greatest cu-cu curiosity in America—Jay Go-Gould, with his hands in, bis ow-own pooket!'

We have to acknowledge the receipt from > the Phoenix Company (Limited), of Dunedin, . of samples of their jams and conserves, manu- • factured from this season's fruits, and very ■ neatly anj attractively turned out in tins, . bottles, and stone jars. The company is . doing good service in displacing the foreign < produce from the Home market, and as its i goods are of the highest excellence, not only.patriotic spirit, but the consumer's own sound i sense in discriminating the superior merits off a first-class article such as this company pro- • duces, should ensure for it general preference > as against imported goods. Better jams there.' are not in the market,