Fifty men were recently engaged in painting the Eiffel Tower in Paris. Forty-five thousand pounds of paint were used, and the work cost £4OOO. The casual wards and licensed lodg-ing-houses of London give accommodation to more than 20,000 persons nightly. A Hatton Garden pearl merchant has set himself the task of finding a collection of pearls for a £300,000 necklace. Prisoners being taken to the court for trial at Brussels are , henceforth to have their features veiled, so as to spare their feelings. A letter posted at Viterbo on November 23rd, 1870. was delivered-Jn Rome on May 23rd last, after being forty-three years in the post. A male university graduate has been appointed (teacher of needlework in the public school for girls, at Kutz-.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIX, Issue 8784, 14 July 1914, Page 9
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