The average wholesale price per hundred weight of butter and tea is almost the same, and has been so since 1881. It runs from 101 s to Ills the hundredweight; A first edition of Spenser’s "Faerie Queene,’’ 1590-6. fetched .£147; and a first edition of Goldsmith’s "Vicar of Wakefield." printed in 1766. JESS at Sothebv’s. A barrel of ale in England is 36 gallons: a barrel of American apples contains 1501 b; there are 2001 b in a barrel of flour: and a barrel of Norwegian fish holds 1000 fish. ' Bv straining in the ac* of pulling a pair of mew boots on. Charles French, a T/.C.C.. hnsnector of weights and mea snres. hroneht on a fit of apoplexy, from which he died.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4406, 12 July 1901, Page 6
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