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Thames Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 9832, 3 January 1901, Page 4

READING NOTICE. TO THE DEAF: A rich lady, cured of her Deafness and Noises in the Head by Dr. Nicholson's Artificial Ear Drums, gave £5000 to hi« Institute, bo that deaif people unable to procure the Ear Drums may have them. free. , Address No. 763 d. The Nicholson jjjj "Institute, ..Longcott, Gunnersbur^, ;{: Lonlon, W 1 _ "4 An' Austrian scientific: "expeclitioh ' will > shortly leave for Southern Brazil, ■ and will remain there several years. Its main object will be to collect objects for the f Natural History Museum, in^yienftji which ■i-already has sonic fifty thousiind" zoological ; and botanical specimens,' including some ■ of the greate'sfc scientific value, which were ;. obtained some time ago'by a former exipedition. V Tho annual cricket match took place at ■.Katikati on Tuesday between the Waihi and Katikati clubs, which resulted in a win for Waihi by 15 runs. • Waihi scored 66 in their first innings and Katikati 26; In their, second innings Wiiihi. made 21 ami Katikati 46. For Waihi .. Graham 'made 41, and Connelly 20 for Katikati. ■ There was a big demand on Tuesday at tho ■ post offices throughout the colony for the,, universal penny; stamp. The limited issue waa speedily cleared'out at several centres. Nine hxindred thousand stamps were landed from, the Papamii in Wellington yesterday morning, which completes the first million, and another million is coming by the "Gothic. .The Commissioner of Taxes'^in a memo to the Hon." J." G'.. Ward says in framing the estimates of the land and income tax for tntf liteli Financial Statement, he thought he had gone as far as precedence would ..allow, in.forecasting a small increase notwithstanding the concessions made to the taxpayer in the new Assessment Act. The laud tax has now been collected, and tho assessments for tho income tax have been completed sufficiently to justify the belief that the estimate £425,000 will be exceeded by the, phenomenal sum of £25,000,- which (adds* Mr. McGowan) is an evidence of the general prosperity of the wlcroy, ; _„ _, ,