HOBART TOWN— Sept. 28.
Fine Flour £30, •sconils £21 \ liraii, 4(01; whrat 13, 6il ; onii, lOx to lls 6d per l>rnhel; hnv £\7 tier lon ; \>ot*laea 1M« per cwl. ; "outtcr; It 3d p«r Ib. ; fowli 7», auii ducks 9> per iiair.
Poi.m.N«ss op Gborof. IV.— lt is related of Georae IV., when Prince of Wales, that be wna once observed to buw 10 eVery one in tits street who taiU'cd him, till lie came to Ike 'man who •wept i ho crossing, when he paisrd witl.o il not cc The question hit heon gravely discussed, and docided in the PriniVa favour :— " To salut* m beggir without giving him anyihiiug would be a mockery, and to (top to bestow sixpence, would weir the semdlance of ostentation in • Prince."
Qualififlcatons of a Wife.-- Funny Fern, a tery |.retiy writer of «orou liternry papers, any* sbe ii ready to jump at the first offer of marriage, «nd pteaculJ her qiulificatioos as follows :— 1 hare black luir and eyes, and nm petite. lam as sen* titiye as the Mimosa, tpiti'cd at aara^lc, and untameable as a cbniu of lig'itniue;. Can make' * puJding or write n nenspaper toulti, cot out « child's (rock, or cut a caper, and crowd more bnjipinetsar or misery lot > ten minutes tlun nny other Tunny tlmt nastver chrij'oncd !— Anier.ctn paper
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Taranaki Herald, Volume II, Issue 67, 9 November 1853, Page 3
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219HOBART TOWN—Sept. 28. Taranaki Herald, Volume II, Issue 67, 9 November 1853, Page 3
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