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Apropos of newspaper ventures, we may be excused for remarking to those who are so very anxious to know what Captain Baldwin paid for the New Zealand Tlmeß that if what he actually paid bore aoy proportion to what he first offered for the Evening Post, he mast have paid a good sum. We have authority to say that the Captain offered the Meaara Blnndell Bros, for the Evening Post L 36.000, Independent of stock, which he also agreed to take at valuation, and which, if put together, would make the decent sum of L 40,000. It is creditable to the Captain to be able to make each a grand offar, and still more creditable to Blnndell Bros, to " be able to refnse It." So, after all, newspaper business in the metropolitan city is not bo bad.—Waoganul Herald. A singular person has just died at Ofen, in Huogary. Franleln Lina——had not for thirty years gone outside her house. The franleln was the daughter of well-to-|do parent*. Thirty years ago she was a ! pretty girl, and was about to be married Her lover one day, "to test her obedience and love," desired her on a certain feast day Dot to go ioto the streets. She promised she would not, but did not keep her promise, and went Into the town. The next day her lover came to see her, and straightway released her from her engagement, saying that a lady who coald not make so small a sacrifice waa not suitable Ito be his wife. Mlaa Llna, |by way of "ciatlgation and exercise devout," therej upon made a vow that never again daring her lifetime would she leave her house, land she kept her word.