— Cape Horn is a great mass of rock rising abruptly from • the' sea and -forming^a small island. Upon one of the ledges of this rock stands a covered barrel,' the international letter box of a region more than 500 miles from anything that resembles civilisation. It is the cußtom of captains passing round the Horn to send a boat ashore at this point ifpossible, take whatever mail is. going in the direction of the vessel,.and drop in whatever it is desired shall go in-the other.direotion. — In the reign of Edward" 111, all the brewers and bakers were women,"and when men first began to engage in these occupations it was thought so strange that they were called mer.-bvewere - and men-Mlcer*
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 11301, 20 December 1898, Page 6
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119Page 6 Advertisements Column 3 Otago Daily Times, Issue 11301, 20 December 1898, Page 6
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