The deepest gold mine in the world is ' eaid to bo the Eureka, in California, which * goes down some 2290 ft. * When the hour is struck in Mandalay \ the watchmen still announce, "By the favour of the King it is such-and-such o'clock.' I Cases of lead poisoning in Paris have i been traced to bread and flour, certain [ holes in the millstones which ground the . grain having been filled up with lead. An eetate in tho North Riding of Yorkshire, for which JE12,500 was ptiid a few yeare ago, was offered for sale at Malton, , the other day, for .£9OOO, but the highest bid was only JE7OOO.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 5650, 21 June 1886, Page 4
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