The new Sultan is .said to have only given £2,500 for his Sultana, formerly a Circassian slave. This indicates a sj>irit of meanness -vvhicli aujcurs well for the political economy of Turkey. On the announcement of this fact in Constantinople, common men's wives chopped sixty per cent., and poor husbands who had bought on margin, lost all their stock. One slavedealer who had been selling short of Seraglios, has accumulated a colossal forfortune, enough to fit out hundreds of poses plastiyues exhibition.
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Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 129, 19 September 1876, Page 2
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82Page 2 Advertisements Column 2 Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 129, 19 September 1876, Page 2
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