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Southland Times, Issue 17697, 8 July 1914, Page 4

An Auckland telegram states that th« financial position the Exhibition Amusements X-td. is explained by reports and a balance sheet prepared for a general meeting of shareholders. They show that the result from the operations of “Wonderland” during the period of the Auckland Exhibition was a net loss of £3820, and among the business of tho meeting will be the consideration of a proposal that the company should go into liquidation. Belief in the long-lived superstition that deatii follows in less than a year i.i one member of a party of 13 sitting down at the same table will be strengthened by two recent coincidences in Wiltshire. Thirteen persons sat down at the rent audit dinner given to the tenants Sir John Goldney at Corsham last November. A few days later Mr E R Coates, one of the party, died after a. brief illness. Another rent audit dinner In connection with the same estate took, place a few months ago. The party again numbered thirteen. Next day Mr Thomas Matthews, of Boyd’s Farm, Corsham, one of the party, became unwell and died on May 20. The assigned stock of J. B. Carswell, Clothier and Mercer, of Win ton, is being sold at half-price at Copeland’s, Doe street. *