A TOWN IN PAWN.
It may not be generally known (says a German paper) that the little seaport town of Wiamar, in the 3altio, is virtually , in the same position as Montague Tigg's shirt — namely, at - the pawnbroker's. It was in 1803 that Sweden pawned the town to the Duchy of Mecklenburg for a round sum of money. It was then stipulated that the town should be restored to Sweden at the end of a century, provided the sum lent, together with '.interest, was paid back to Mecklenburg. This sum is now said to amount to several hundred "million marks, and apparently there is little chance of Wismur being able to pay it at the date fixed. This singular treaty has lain dormant in the archives of the municipality ever siuce it was made np to the other day, when apropos of the concession of some land to the Customß authorities it was exhuaied for legal purposes.
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Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 7980, 26 September 1887, Page 2
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157A TOWN IN PAWN. Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 7980, 26 September 1887, Page 2
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