There were 503 patents applied for in New Zealand hist year. Capo Colony possessea 12,000,000 Bheep and :i,000,00l) goats. Denmark iaso tlat that its loftiest mouii' tain is only 550 feet high. Last yuur the British Parcels Post delivered thirty million packages. A land slide at Embiun, llautes Alps, caused by rains, buried eight persons. When Dean Swift was arguing one duj with great coolness with ayontleman who had become exceedingly warm in ths dispute, one of the company asked him how he could keep his temper so well. " The reason is," replied the Duan, "I have truth on my side." (For continuation of news see /old thpuuje.)
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XIV, Issue 4773, 26 January 1887, Page 3
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108Untitled Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XIV, Issue 4773, 26 January 1887, Page 3
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