The resident secretary of the A.M.P. Society, Mr E. W. Lowe, states that the new business transacted for the year 1900 amounts to over £4.220,000. This is the largest amount of new 'business ever transacted by the society in a single year. This great result has been contributed to in the most satisfactory manner by each of the six States of the Australian Commonwealth and by New Zealand. At Leighton Buzzard there are seven persons living at the present time whose combined ages amount to 643! years. The oldest inhabitant is Mr Joseph Inns, aged 95! years.
A man covered in wolfs skin, has been terrorising the inhabitants of Claxnart, in the environs of Paris. He narrowly escaped being shot by the policeman -who arrested him.
“So sorry,’ 1 France says to Kruger in “Punch’s” cartoon this week, “but our exhibition is closed;” and the ex-Presi-dent answers, “Just my luck;- so’s the Transvaal.”
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1510, 7 February 1901, Page 66
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153Untitled New Zealand Mail, Issue 1510, 7 February 1901, Page 66
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